Heart palpitations, dizziness, the original cervical spine caused by the trouble

  Ms. Su, who is engaged in accounting work, has been very busy recently and started to experience palpitations, chest tightness, dizziness and shoulder and back pain after a few days of exhaustion, and heard people say that it might be coronary heart disease. Finally, he came to the hospital and had a coronary angiogram, but no abnormality was found. Finally, he had a cervical spine examination, such as a cervical spine film and MRI, and was diagnosed with a disease called “cervical heart syndrome”. After treatment by traditional Chinese medicine, together with rest and Chinese herbal medicine, the discomfort soon disappeared.  Cervical heart syndrome” is caused by cervical spine lesions that stimulate the upper, middle and lower sympathetic nerves, resulting in cervical sympathetic syndrome, which has a reflex effect on the coronary arteries, resulting in palpitations, chest tightness and angina-like symptoms. The clinical symptoms caused by the cervical spine can be as many as 70, and hand pain and hand numbness are very typical symptoms, while the main clinical symptoms manifested by different types of cervical spondylosis are slightly different, such as cervical cervical spondylosis mostly manifests as neck and shoulder pain, neurogenic cervical spondylosis mostly manifests as arm numbness and pain, vertebral artery cervical spondylosis mostly manifests as dizziness and headache, while sympathetic cervical spondylosis can appear as palpitations and chest tightness. chest tightness. The panic and palpitations like Ms. Su’s are not actually organic heart problems, but are caused by the sympathetic nerve stimulation of the cervical spine, resulting in cardiac neurosis.  Ninety percent of cervical spondylosis does not require surgery and can be treated conservatively. In daily life but there are many to pay attention to, such as sleep pillow center should be slightly concave, the height of 11 ~ 15cm, the neck should be pillowed on the pillow, can not be suspended, so that the head to keep slightly back. Those who are used to side lying position, should make the pillow with the shoulder height. Do not lie down to read a book while sleeping, and do not put your hands above your head for a long time. Pay attention to rest, ambulatory work for more than an hour should be active cervical waist joints, or hot water shower, hot water bag bureau compress, thoroughly relax the muscles and mental state.  Normally, you can do cervical spine health exercises, through the relaxation of the neck in all directions of movement, active cervical spine area blood circulation, relax the neck ligament muscle, enhance the fatigue tolerance of the neck muscles. However, in the acute attack period, it is not advisable to increase the stimulation of sports, and it is even more contraindicated when there are more obvious or progressive spinal cord compression symptoms, especially cervical backward movement or over-extension and over-flexion movement, such as tilting the head to put aside things or drying clothes. For vertebral artery cervical spondylosis, the rotational movement of the neck should be gentle and slow, and the amplitude should be properly controlled.  Chinese medicine believes that cervical spondylosis is due to long-term strain on the neck, coupled with external wind, cold and dampness, resulting in the poor operation of qi and blood, meridians and closed obstruction, acupuncture and massage can harmonize qi and blood, dredge tendons and channels, to achieve the effect of relieving spasm and pain, so it is also a good and practical treatment method. Physical therapy can improve local blood circulation and relax spastic muscles. High frequency (microwave, ultra-short wave), low and medium frequency electrotherapy, ultrasound and magnetic therapy can be used at the onset. It should be noted that different massage and physical therapy methods have their own indications and contraindications. For example, massage therapy is not recommended for spinal cord cervical spondylosis because it may aggravate the damage to the spinal cord. Cervical traction is often used as the first choice for neurogenic, cervical and sympathetic cervical spondylosis, but it is not recommended for spinal cord cervical spondylosis with significant spinal cord compression or for those with significant cervical segmental instability. Therefore, it is recommended that patients choose appropriate self-care treatment methods under the guidance of a professional physician.  Therefore, in addition to the common symptoms of dizziness, hand numbness, shoulder and back pain, patients with cervical spondylosis may also experience anterior heart pain, palpitations, chest tightness and electrocardiogram changes, so clinically, for those with unexplained anterior heart pain and arrhythmia accompanied by symptoms of cervical spondylosis, if anti-angina and arrhythmia treatment is ineffective, “cervical heart syndrome” should be considered “If the diagnosis is confirmed and the regular conservative treatment is still ineffective for more than six months, then surgery should be considered.