Surgical treatment of cervical spondylosis

  With the aging trend of our population increasing year by year and the rapid growth of the number of office workers, the number of patients with cervical spondylosis is also increasing year by year.  Patients often suffer from neck pain and discomfort with numbness in the shoulder and arm, loss of object holding, dizziness, tinnitus, limited neck movement, weakness in the lower limbs, unstable walking, and in severe cases, sensory impairment.  Since the anterior cervical surgery was carried out by Smith Robinson and Cloward in the 1950s, the scope of cervical spine surgery, surgical techniques, and surgical methods have been developing, and the popularity of surgery has become increasingly widespread.  In recent years, scholars at home and abroad have explored and reported many successful experiences in the field of minimally invasive surgical treatment of cervical spondylosis. The spinal cord specialty group of neurosurgery has achieved satisfactory results in the technique of trans-anterior microscopic discectomy and bone graft fusion. The use of a small incision in the anterior cervical spine and the use of a microscope are characterized by low surgical costs, short hospitalization period, short operative time, and low bleeding, etc. More importantly, the microscopic view is clear, which not only allows adequate decompression, but also safe and effective protection of the spinal cord and nerves. For individual types of cervical disc herniation, we also carry out microscopic posterior neural foramen enlargement-disc removal, which also achieves good results, and patients can be discharged three days after surgery.