The key to cervical spondylosis is symptomatic treatment and effective reset. If the cervical spondylosis is caused by osteophytes, it should be treated for osteophytes. If it is caused by a cervical disc herniation, we should treat it for cervical disc herniation.
Now the “massage” in society, often become a means of making a living. Not only is the price very high, and what kind of techniques, how much force, what are the indications for patients, what are the contraindications, what circumstances can massage, what circumstances can not massage, there is no a unified specification, a master a way, the problem is very big.
The cervical spine is made of seven vertebrae, connected by intervertebral joints and ligaments, etc. The misalignment between the joints forms a change in curvature, and if the misalignment is adjusted, then the straightened cervical curvature can be restored to its original state.
Cervical spondylosis is a common and frequent disease with different clinical manifestations, and the treatment of cervical spondylosis can be divided into two categories: non-surgical treatment and surgical treatment. Most medical experts advocate non-surgical treatment, and only a few special cases require surgical treatment.
The Five Animal Play created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the Han Dynasty, is designed to move the muscles and bones, unblock the qi and blood, enhance physical fitness and prevent diseases. The Five Animal Play imitates the lively movements of tigers, deer, bears, apes, birds and other animals to move the whole body and strengthen the body.
Chrysalis movement through Qi: the body from the bottom up to do insect chrysalis-like chrysalis movement (equivalent to some street dance-like movements) for 5 minutes;
Manual massage and massage therapy is the main method of treatment for cervical spondylosis in Chinese medicine. Its therapeutic effect is to relieve the tension and spasm of the neck and shoulder muscles, restore the cervical spine activities, and release the nerve roots and soft tissue adhesions to relieve the symptoms. However, it cannot reset the intervertebral discs and cannot completely cure cervical spondylosis. Moreover, once the massage strength is not well grasped, it will aggravate the disease. Cervical spine traction therapy
This therapy is suitable for all kinds of cervical spondylosis, and is more effective for early cases. Traction can effectively reset the intervertebral disc, but it cannot eliminate inflammation. Long-term traction will relax the muscles and ligaments of the cervical spine, which will reduce the stability of the cervical spine and make cervical spondylosis prone to recurrence.
It is reported that winter is the high incidence of cervical spondylosis, many people commit cervical spondylosis will find someone massage or private medicine to relieve the pain, not knowing that this is often counterproductive and aggravate the condition.
Treatment of cervical spondylosis caution against three major misconceptions.
Misconception one: neck and shoulder pain massage.
Hu is the boss of a private enterprise in Henan, recently often feel neck and shoulder pain, so he went to a private massage clinic to massage. Just after the massage, he felt very comfortable neck and shoulder, but at night was awakened by the neck pain, and then later, he could not lie down because of neck and shoulder pain, only leaning against the sofa half asleep.
Hu is a nerve root type cervical spondylosis caused by nerve root edema. The acute attack of the disease should not be massage, massage, traction, otherwise it will aggravate the nerve root edema, making the condition worse. Nerve root edema should be eliminated through systematic treatment first, and then tui-na, massage, traction and other treatments should be guided by a professional doctor.
This is the main method of treating cervical spondylosis in Chinese medicine. Its therapeutic effect is to relieve the tension and spasm of the cervical and shoulder muscles, restore the cervical spine activities, and release the nerve roots and soft tissue adhesions to relieve the symptoms. However, it cannot reset the intervertebral discs and cannot completely cure cervical spondylosis. Moreover, once the massage strength is not well grasped, it will aggravate the disease.
Blind traction, which keeps the muscles and ligaments of the neck in a non-physiological state for a long time, will cause chronic damage, so attention should be paid to the recovery and maintenance of the physiological curvature of the cervical spine during the treatment. It is recommended to use medicine pillow, Chinese medicine infiltration, and hot moxibustion for comprehensive treatment, so that the vast majority of physiological curvature is restored and symptoms disappear.
Misconception 2: Stop treatment when the symptoms are slightly relieved.
Zhang, a civilian employee of a government agency in Henan Province, came to the hospital recently for dizziness and was diagnosed with vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis. Zhang discontinued the treatment without permission because he felt that his symptoms had improved significantly. But a week later, Zhang was found to have developed again due to significant memory loss and symptoms of neurasthenia such as insomnia and dreaminess.
Vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis is a cervical spine disease caused by inflammation and edema of the cervical spine, which compresses the vertebral artery and leads to insufficient blood supply to the brain. When the symptoms improve significantly after treatment for a period of time, patients should not relax their vigilance, and should continue to follow medical advice for acupuncture, cervical spine reset and other comprehensive treatment of Chinese medicine to improve brain blood supply, otherwise, chronic ischemia and hypoxia of brain tissue will lead to brain atrophy similar to Zhang’s disease.
Misconception 3: Indiscriminate use of anti-pain drugs.
The indiscriminate use of anti-pain medication for neck and shoulder pain will often conceal the real condition. Because of the effect of anti-pain drugs, the pain symptoms are temporarily relieved, but the root of the disease is not removed, the bulging cervical disc gradually compressing the spinal cord, will cause limb dysfunction, and then the heavier it can lead to paralysis. In reality, most doctors do not know where the root cause of such diseases lies, let alone the treatment of their diseases. While helpless, only use those massage, tendon traction or eat some through the tendon Shu bone of western medicine or painkillers, etc. This can only continue to treat the surface but not the root, so lead to the severity of such diseases, bringing pain to people.
There are many treatment methods for cervical spondylosis, and it is simple and easy to introduce you to several self-treatment methods.
1, after waking up, you can massage your own face, using both hands to rub the front of the face back and forth, the side and behind the ears a few times, and then comb your head with five fingers a few times, without too much, feel comfortable on it.
2.Gently rub the neck muscles with your hands, use your thumbs to rub the left and right Fengchi, Tianzhu and acupuncture points, and use your thumbs to press and rub the painful points of the neck.
3, continue to self-exercise head and neck, forward flexion, backward, left and right rotation, slowly rotate not too hard, the number of times depending on the person. After doing it is not some comfortable?
4, if you can not adhere to the daily exercise, you can try the cervical spine reset pillow “monk brand”, every night before going to bed for 30 minutes treatment effect is also quite good.
In general, to establish confidence in overcoming cervical spondylosis, persistently adhere to the exercise, cervical spondylosis can soon recover.