When it comes to cervical spondylosis, many people are not unfamiliar with it, and when it comes to the symptoms of cervical spondylosis, we are even more familiar with them, which are nothing more than neck and shoulder pain with dizziness, headache, and in severe cases, hand and foot paralysis. However, because of these “conventional” knowledge of cervical spondylosis, people completely ignore the fact that there are many types of cervical spondylosis, each with different harmful effects, and one of them is called “spinal cervical spondylosis”. It is the most harmful among the various types of cervical spondylosis – insidious onset and high disability rate. ”Spinal cord cervical spondylosis occurs in middle-aged and elderly people over the age of 55 and should be treated surgically as soon as possible once diagnosed. Spinal cord cervical spondylosis is caused by degeneration of the cervical vertebrae and adjacent soft tissues such as herniated discs, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, hypertrophy or calcification of the ligamentum flavum, etc., resulting in direct compression of the spinal cord, combined with the effects of strenuous exercise or long-term poor posture, resulting in spinal cord compression or spinal cord ischemia, followed by spinal cord dysfunction. The initial manifestation is not obvious and is easily misdiagnosed as neurological disease Spinal cord cervical spondylosis is usually not obvious at the beginning of the patient’s illness, showing the symptoms of ordinary cervical spondylosis, such as neck and shoulder pain with dizziness and vomiting, etc. Some patients may have paralysis of the hands and feet, which is easily thought to be a neurological disease problem, and consultation in neurology leads to delayed illness. Generally, the clinical manifestations of spinal cord type cervical spondylosis are numbness, pain, stiffness and shaking, weakness and trembling of the lower limbs bilaterally or unilaterally in the early stage, difficulty in walking, and the feeling of stepping on cotton when walking; later, it will develop into numbness of the upper limbs bilaterally, weakened grip of the hands, reduced flexibility, and the development of easy dropping of objects; at the same time, it may appear that the chest and abdomen feel like being tied by a rope, which is medically called ” The medical term for this is “girdle sensation”. The symptoms may be aggravated by constipation, difficulty in urination, urinary retention or incontinence, or bed rest, and may be accompanied by sympathetic symptoms such as dizziness, blurred vision, difficulty in swallowing, and abnormal facial sweating. If you have any of these manifestations, you should go to a spinal surgery specialist at the hospital as soon as possible. How to confirm the diagnosis? The diagnosis of spinal cord cervical spondylosis can be made through clinical symptoms, physical examination by a doctor combined with X-ray frontal and power lateral films, MRI, CT examination, myelography and other examination methods. Once the diagnosis is confirmed, early surgery is recommended. One year after his recovery from surgery, Professor Chen can now walk without crutches, and his bowels and urine have returned to normal, but his pace is very slow and far less than that of a normal elderly person of his age, but he and his family are still very satisfied. However, in the case of the professor, if the surgery had been performed 10 years ago, even now, at the age of 79, he would still be able to walk at a trot, not just lose his crutches. Surgery for spinal cord cervical spondylosis is not as dangerous and unreliable as patients think, rather it is a very delicate and mature technique. Surgery is mainly to remove the bone spurs, hyperplastic discs and other soft tissues that are compressing the spinal cord, that is, to release the compression of the cervical spinal cord, to fully liberate it and to create normal rehabilitation conditions for the compressed spinal cord. He again reminded the public that once the symptoms appear as soon as possible to go to a large hospital spine surgery specialist, spinal cord cervical spondylosis unless very early medication, the earlier the surgery, the better the results.