In addition to neck pain, what are the latent symptoms of cervical spondylosis?
1. Poor swallowing
The upper end of the esophagus is adjacent to the sixth cervical vertebra, and when there is hyperplasia in the sixth cervical vertebra, it will compress and stimulate the esophagus and even cause inflammation and edema around the esophagus, resulting in symptoms such as foreign body sensation and dysphagia when eating. People who work on computers for a long time and have neck and shoulder pain should suspect the possibility of cervical spondylosis if they have poor swallowing and foreign body sensation.
2.Visual impairment
Some patients with cervical spondylosis show vision loss, eye swelling and pain, photophobia, tearing, unequal pupil size, or even reduced visual field and sharply reduced visual acuity. This is related to the autonomic nerve dysfunction caused by cervical spondylosis, as well as insufficient blood supply to the basilar artery.
This is related to the ischemia of the visual center in the occipital lobe of the brain caused by insufficient blood supply of the basilar artery.
3. Abdominal distension and constipation
In some cervical spine patients, due to the stimulation and injury of the adjacent cervical sympathetic nerve, the feeling of discomfort can be transmitted to the brain, resulting in increased excitability of the relevant nerve, which slows down the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract innervated by it, resulting in abdominal distension, constipation and other discomforts. Therefore, for patients with intractable constipation of unknown origin, it is necessary to discover the traces in time to find out the cause of the disease.
4, often fallen pillow
Some people have very high requirements for the pillow, bed and other sleep environment, a little inattention is particularly easy to pillow, which is often cervical instability, neck muscle strength is not enough due to the development of cervical spondylosis to beware.
5, blood pressure rise
Some people suddenly appear elevated blood pressure, take antihypertensive drugs are not well controlled, at this time, pay attention to whether there are cervical spine problems, especially in young patients this is because the cervical spine misalignment, hyperplasia will compress the vertebral artery or cervical sympathetic ganglion, resulting in spasm of the vertebral artery, insufficient blood supply to the basilar artery, reflexively cause increased excitability of the vasomotor center, resulting in increased blood pressure.
6.Tachycardia
Some patients feel a significantly accelerated heartbeat when they turn their heads or twist their necks, and even experience discomfort such as chest tightness This may be produced by stimulation of the fourth nerve root of the cervical spine, which is prone to sudden falls when the position of the neck suddenly changes. If the cervical spine has degeneration, hyperplasia and other lesions, it may compress or pull the vertebral artery, causing impaired blood supply to the basilar artery, resulting in cerebral ischemia, dizziness, headache and other symptoms, and in severe cases, it may suddenly fall when turning the head and changing position.
What are the bad habits that hurt the cervical spine?
1.Long time low head
Looking down for a long time to read a book or a cell phone, or even looking at a cell phone while walking with your head down. When the head is lowered, the cervical spine is subjected to excessive pressure, and the forward flexion of the cervical spine changes, which can easily cause cervical disc herniation and cervical instability. People already suffering from severe cervical spondylosis, after a long time low, suddenly lift the head, but also easy to temporary cerebral ischemia caused by dizziness, nausea and other symptoms, more serious, may also lead to a sudden stroke.
2, blind massage
For cervical spondylosis, massage therapy does have a certain role in relaxing the muscles and channels, activating the blood to disperse cancer, reducing swelling and pain, etc. The therapeutic effect of nerve root type cervical spondylosis is more obvious, and the vertebral artery type and sympathetic nerve type cervical spondylosis also has certain curative effect.
If non-professionals, regardless of the type of blind, rough massage cervical spine will have adverse consequences, may increase the cervical marrow injury, so that the massage exceeds the normal strength of the bones and ligaments of the neck. Blind, rough massage cervical spine is also prone to accelerate the process of lesions, causing local traumatic reaction to the light local edema, increased exudate, anvil formation, etc., the heavy can tear ligaments, accelerating the process of cervical degenerative lesions.
3, do not sleep on the pillow
Too low pillow or even without a pillow, will make people in the sleep process for a long time to keep their heads up, for people who are used to working with their heads down, tilting their heads to sleep may make people feel comfortable for a short time, however, if this is the case for a long time, the neck ligaments are tense for a long time, there will be strain, which is not good for the health of the cervical spine.
Too high pillow is also not good for the cervical spine. Because the pillow is too high, the posture when sleeping breaks the normal curvature of the cervical spine, which will aggravate cervical spine disease in the long run.
4, sitting on a soft sofa
People sitting on soft sofas to read books, newspapers, usually like to put the book or newspaper on the lap, head down to read. Due to the role of gravity of the head, and will make the neck muscles are stretched, over time, not only easily lead to eye muscle fatigue, the chances of cervical spondylosis will also increase.
5, wear high heels
The human spine is connected by a number of vertebrae, the contact surface of the two vertebrae is nearly flat. When our posture is upright, the vertebrae are in contact with each other, and the forces are dispersed and not easily damaged. Wearing high heels will cause the center of gravity to shift too far forward, causing the pelvis to tilt forward, making the spine curved to increase, causing the contact surface between the vertebrae to become smaller, and the lumbar and cervical vertebrae to be concentrated at the point of force, or even concentrated to a point. In this way, the pressure on the vertebrae will rapidly increase, easily causing vertebral injury Therefore, high heels wear more, vertebral injury will accumulate, which will eventually lead to lumbar pain and cervical spondylosis.
6, lying on the table to sleep
This sleeping posture causes the neck to lean forward, and the normal physiological bending into the opposite direction, time min will easily lead to cervical spine deformation, neck muscle fatigue, and cause cervical spondylosis, etc.
Good habits to protect the cervical spine.
1.A scientific and reasonable pillow
To have the right height, almost a fist height; to have good breathability, so that the skin can breathe smoothly during sleep; to have a comfortable softness, too little elasticity feels too hard, too much elasticity, the reverse force increases, the sense of compression is enhanced. In fact, a pillow suitable or not, you can feel it yourself. If you wake up after a sleep, feel uncomfortable neck, head drowsiness, it is recommended to replace your pillow.
2, ask a professional to treat yourself
If you do not understand the type of cervical spondylosis you have, you should go to a regular hospital for treatment, do not feel free to massage, pounding, traction by yourself or ask non-professionals.
3.Adopt a good sitting and standing posture and reduce the time of head down
Such as looking at the phone can be placed in the direction parallel to the line of sight. Can do some head shrugging action to relieve cervical muscle tension, certain sports can also help relieve cervical spondylosis, such as swimming, playing badminton, etc.
4, sit less soft sofa
Should be as little as possible to sit on a soft sofa, especially the elderly, and should not often sit on a soft sofa to read a book and a newspaper.
5.Reduce the number of times you wear high heels
If you must wear high heels, you should also try to reduce the number of times you wear them, or choose a heel height lower than 5 cm in the heels.
6.Lay down to sleep
When you need to catch up on sleep, it is best to lie down, such as can not, in front of the chest pad a soft cushion or pillow as a cushion. And don’t put your head directly on your arms.
On the basis of correcting various bad neck habits, combined with functional exercise, traction, physical therapy, local closure, neck brace protection and other non-surgical treatment, most of the symptoms of neck discomfort can be relieved.