Cervical spondylosis The pain in the arms was thought to be rheumatism, but repeated treatment was ineffective, and finally it was found that the cervical spine was the problem. There are dozens of diseases and symptoms caused by the cervical spine and spine, many of which seem to be unrelated to the neck and spine, but are actually interlinked: such as hypertension, cardiac arrhythmia, myopia in children, etc., can be triggered by neck and spine problems. The root cause of arm pain is in the cervical spine Ms. Zhang’s daily work is mainly copywriting. Six months ago she vaguely felt numbness in her right arm along with pain, and began to think it was a long time in the office under the cold wind accidentally suffered from rheumatism, following medical advice to take a lot of Chinese and Western conditioning, but no significant effect. When Ms. Zhang consulted online, she was advised to check her cervical spine. Why should the cervical spine be checked for arm numbness? Although Ms. Zhang was a little confused, after examination, Ms. Zhang found that the 5th section of the cervical spine was shifted back to the right, and pain was evident when pressing on both sides of the vertebra. After taking cervical spine X-ray, it is proved that the cervical spondylosis rather than rheumatism is suffering from the symptoms of nerve root damage. Cervical nerve damage can cause neck, shoulder, arm and hand discomfort Experts point out that the nerve root type is the most common clinical type of cervical spondylosis. Due to the misalignment of joints, osteophytes and herniated discs in the cervical spine, bone compression or irritation is caused, injuring the nerves or blood vessels, thus causing pain and numbness in the tendons, flesh and skin innervated by these nerves or blood vessels. This kind of cervical spondylosis is dominated by neurological symptoms, and a fixed, persistent and deeply located pain will appear in a part of the head or upper limb where the cervical nerves are distributed, and the patient will feel numbness, tingling, dull pain, tenderness or burning pain, or numbness and weakness, and easy tiredness. Why do some patients only have headache or pain somewhere in the arm, but not neck pain? This is because the cervical nerve has a different division of labor. The anterior branch of the cervical nerve is distributed to the head and upper limbs, and the posterior limbs are distributed to the back of the neck. When only the anterior branch of the cervical nerve is damaged and the posterior branch is not damaged, the neck will not hurt. Many patients with chronic cervical spondylosis often do not have neck pain discomfort, so it is easy to be misdiagnosed. If it is found that only one or more parts of the arm have pain, tenderness and numbness, the local treatment of “rheumatism” (such as taking Chinese and Western medicine, physiotherapy, local rubbing pain relief oil, etc.) is ineffective. However, if self-examination is done according to the cervical spondylosis and the self-treatment of cervical spondylosis is effective, the preliminary judgment is that it is cervical spondylosis of nerve root type, not “rheumatism”.