Find out the culprit behind vertigo – cervical spondylosis The first thing people think of when vertigo occurs is cranial problems, but in fact, most vertigo symptoms are caused by cervical spondylosis. Vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis is commonly known as “cervical vertigo”, which is known as “Xiang paralysis” in Chinese medicine, which means paralysis and obstruction. Clinical symptoms include dizziness, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, blurred vision, etc. The most prominent feature is postural vertigo, i.e. vertigo is aggravated when changing position, especially when twisting the head, and sudden collapse may occur in severe cases, but it is generally not accompanied by impaired consciousness. In addition, the vertebral artery and sympathetic nerve are parallel, so vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis is often accompanied by some sympathetic symptoms, such as pseudo-angina, myocardial ischemia, sweat gland secretion disorder, partial limb or half of the body sweating or less sweating, and digestive dysfunction. It is not difficult to diagnose this disease based on the clinical characteristics of its symptoms, supplemented by X-ray, CT film and Doppler. One is the mechanical compression of the vertebral artery by the bone spur, resulting in stenosis or occlusion, which is easier to occur when the vertebral artery itself is diseased; the other is the stimulation of the cervical sympathetic nerve, which causes spasm of the pulse. In both cases, there is a prerequisite that the head and neck must be turned to a position that allows the pushing vein to be compressed or the sympathetic nerves to be stimulated. In short, vertigo attacks are clearly related to the position of the head. Some patients may have a history of sudden collapse, mostly when they hear shouting behind them while walking, and when they look back, they suddenly fall to the ground with weakness of their lower limbs, and after they fall to the ground, their head position returns and their symptoms disappear, and they can get up immediately, and the whole process is clear to the patient. The treatment of this disease is mainly conservative. As far as conservative treatment is concerned, any single therapy has certain limitations and weaknesses, and is not sufficient to have a complete adjustment process for this disease, so the treatment of this disease by staged comprehensive therapy has been clinically proven to be very effective. So, what is staged integrative therapy? For patients in the acute stage, the main manifestation is ischemic changes. Therefore, this stage is based on the principle of activating blood circulation and relieving blood stasis and meridians to change the blood supply to the neck and head. In addition, the blood circulation and blood stasis activation promote the absorption of local inflammation and edema and change the pressure at the site of vertebral artery compression. In the second stage, the cervical spine is adjusted to change the compression of the vertebral artery by the local stenosis of the cervical spine. This stage is based on traction to open the intervertebral foramen, together with external Chinese medicine to improve the spasm of the neck and shoulder muscles, and also with cupping. In the third stage, recovery treatment can be used to consolidate the adjustment effect of the cervical spine in the first two stages, with the main purpose of tonifying qi and blood, invigorating blood and promoting blood circulation to help the recovery of muscles and ligaments, and can be combined with the external application of special ointment. In addition, patients should be instructed to perform functional exercises during this stage. After a complete treatment process
For general patients, basically all can be cured, but for patients with serious and combined with other diseases, should also according to the condition, with some targeted drug treatment.