Anterior cervical spine surgery The first step: let us understand what is cervical spondylosis, with a diagram showing the most clear, due to cervical spinal stenosis, osteophytes or bone spurs, also including degenerated cervical intervertebral discs, hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the ligamentum flavum posterior longitudinal ligament, etc., can squeeze and compress the spinal cord in the spinal canal, the spinal cord compression will produce the following most common symptoms, compare the following, you have a few: 1, numbness in both hands, but partition Clearly, for example, the thumb and index finger, the outer arm numbness, or the middle finger numbness, or ring finger and little finger, the inner arm numbness, if the whole palm are numb, diabetic peripheral neuropathy or carpal tunnel syndrome will be more likely. 2, lower limb weakness, walking unsteadiness, walking like stepping on cotton, if not walking straight or half of the limb weakness numbness, you need to see a neurologist first Oh. 3, neck pain, dizziness, cervical spine after rapid activity aggravated, emphasis on the following, dizziness symptoms are often not caused by cervical spondylosis, but the most common outpatient clinic is to see patients who have dizziness as the main clinical manifestations, dizziness is often caused by blood pressure instability, vestibular function degeneration, etc., of course, cervical spinal artery stenosis caused by insufficient blood supply to the basal – vertebral artery is also one of the causes. 4. Other symptoms such as numbness at the back of the head, pain at the cervical occiput, and even blurred vision are rare. The spinal cord is seen to be compressed at the stenosis with a red color after x-ray angiography. Now that we know the cause, let’s see how the anterior cervical occipital surgery works. The compression can be seen in the cross-sectional and sagittal planes.