Many people think that although cervical spondylosis is difficult and painful to treat, it is not fatal and is not a life-threatening disease. In fact, this view is wrong. Cervical spondylosis can cause cervical heart syndrome: it manifests as pain in the precordial region, chest tightness, arrhythmia (such as premature beats, etc.) and ST-segment changes in the electrocardiogram, and is very easy to be misdiagnosed as coronary heart disease. Unnecessary medication treatment damages one’s heart and blood vessels. What is more serious is that cervical spondylosis can cause the patient’s blood pressure to rise or fall, with the increase in blood pressure being the most common, called “cervical hypertension”. Since cervical spondylosis and hypertension are both common diseases among middle-aged and elderly people, they often coexist.
How many patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases die and become disabled due to cerebral hemorrhage caused by hypertension, only knowing the danger of hypertension, not knowing that the disease is at its root, and how many patients die without realizing that they died of cervical spondylosis, not hypertension.
A, susceptible to cervical spondylosis of three kinds of people.
1, the buttocks sticky chair: office white-collar workers, computer workers, accountants, writers and other long-term ambulatory workers;
2, occupational hazards: teachers, drivers, assembly line workers, etc. more than 5 hours a day to maintain a posture, half a day of inactivity, prone to osteophytes.
3, people old disease since the: 40, 50-year-old middle-aged and elderly, for some reason cervical spondylosis came, the reason is that many years of accumulation of fatigue, coupled with the usual exercise less, creating bone natural physiological aging, muscle strain.
Second, cervical spondylosis harm not only in the cervical spine: the
1, swallowing disorders: a sense of obstruction when swallowing, a foreign body feeling in the esophagus, a few people have nausea, vomiting, hoarseness, dry cough, chest tightness and other symptoms.
2, visual impairment: manifested as vision loss, eye distension, photophobia, lacrimation, pupil size, and even visual field reduction and sharp vision loss, and individual patients may also become blind.
3, cervical heart syndrome: manifested as pain in the precordial region, chest tightness, arrhythmia (such as premature beats, etc.) and ST-segment changes in the electrocardiogram, which can be easily misdiagnosed as coronary heart disease.
4, hypertensive cervical spondylosis: can cause blood pressure to rise or fall, with blood pressure rising more often, known as “cervical hypertension”. Since cervical spondylosis and hypertension are both common diseases among middle-aged and elderly people, they often coexist.
5.Pain in the chest: It manifests as a slow onset of intractable unilateral pain in the pectoralis major muscle and breast, with pressure pain in the pectoralis major muscle during examination.
6, lower limb paralysis: early manifestation of lower limb numbness, pain, limp, some patients have a feeling like stepping on cotton when walking, individual patients may also be accompanied by defecation, urination disorders, such as urinary frequency, urinary urgency, urinary incontinence or urinary and fecal incontinence.
7. Sudden collapse: often when standing or walking, the body loses support and collapses suddenly due to sudden head twisting, and can wake up soon after collapsing, not accompanied by impaired consciousness and no sequelae
Third, cervical spondylosis commonly has seven kinds of hazards.
Cervical spondylosis hazard one: subhealth, premature aging, emotional instability, and seriously affect the quality of life and work.
Cervical spondylosis hazard two: insidious attack, early and middle stage is easy to be ignored, late stage has the risk of paralysis.
Cervical spondylosis hazard three: it is an important cause of unstable blood pressure, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and chronic diseases of the five senses.
Cervical spondylosis hazard four: it causes headache, vertigo, tinnitus, blurred vision, poor memory and slow reaction.
Cervical spondylosis hazard five: causes panic, chest tightness, shortness of breath, erratic heartbeat, arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, etc.
Cervical spondylosis hazard six: more than 90% have various symptoms of menopausal syndrome and plant nerve dysfunction.
Cervical spondylosis hazard seven: causing chronic stomach pain and gastrointestinal dysfunction.
Fourth, cervical spondylosis has nine serious consequences.
1, stroke: more than 90% of stroke patients have cervical spondylosis, and many people are still not clear about this cause after a stroke.
2, insomnia, neurasthenia: clinical observation in this kind of disease, 70% of the people triggered by cervical spondylosis.
3, sudden onset of vertigo: mainly due to compression of the vertebral artery, sudden fainting often brings serious consequences.
4.Severe memory loss: caused by the compression of the vertebral artery by the cervical spine, which can seriously lead to cerebral infarction or even cerebral hemorrhage.
5, neck stiffness can not be turned: cervical spondylosis due to vertebral degeneration, ligament calcification will lead to limited neck movement.
6.Phytodysfunction: caused by compression of the posterior wall of the esophagus by the bone of the anterior edge of the vertebra or stimulation of the surrounding soft tissue reaction.
7.Upper limb pain and weakness: caused by intervertebral compression of nerve roots, which can affect both sides of the torso at the same time and develop more rapidly.
8.High paraplegia: cervical spine osteophytes and bone spurs compressing the nerve roots and spinal cord in the neck, leading to the onset of paralysis.
9.Deafness: caused by stimulation or compression of sympathetic postganglionic fibers next to the cervical spine, often accompanied by blurred vision, etc.