The emergence of cervical spondylosis and cervical and lumbar disc herniation is constantly killing the physical and mental health of modern people!
The white-collar class in the urban population suffers from cervical spondylosis due to sitting in front of the computer for a long time. Most white-collar patients lack a correct understanding of cervical spondylosis, and half of the first-time patients mistakenly regard cervical spondylosis as a “terminal illness” that cannot be treated, leading to delays in treatment or abandonment. In addition, patients with lumbar disc herniation, clinically L4.5 and L5.S1 disc herniation is the most common, more than 95G clinical manifestations of lumbar pain, sciatica, lumbar activity is limited, gait constraint, serious can not lie down, many symptoms make patients suffer. Song Yujie, Department of Orthopedics, Moringa General Hospital, Heilongjiang Province
Patients with cervical spondylosis suffer from numbness and soreness of the cervical spine tissue due to long-term sitting posture; patients with disc herniation mostly suffer from degeneration, injury, rupture of the annulus fibrosus and extrusion of the nucleus pulposus tissue due to trauma, long-term strain, uncoordinated exertion, improper posture and other causes of disc tissue degeneration, injury, backward pressure on the nerve from the ruptured fibrous canal. It can cause stiffness of the neck, numbness of the upper limbs, headache, dizziness, pain in the waist and legs, numbness, coldness, soreness and discomfort, cramps, lumbar scoliosis, atrophy of the leg muscles, weakening of strength, and even loss of ability to work. Therefore, the majority of patients suffering from it, should pay enough attention to early treatment to the regular specialist hospital, symptomatic treatment, so as not to burn deeper persistent disease.
The Chinese Medical Association shows through analysis that the onset of cervical spondylosis and disc herniation is increasingly inclined to young people, which is important because on the one hand, young people’s misunderstanding of cervical spondylosis and intervertebral disc disease, thinking that it is a minor disease, will not cause physical trauma; on the other hand, the lack of basic knowledge of disease prevention, the arrival of the disease, do not take it seriously, resulting in the misunderstanding of the disease and miss a good time for treatment.
Heilongjiang Red Cross Hospital orthopedic director Song Yujie suggested that computer work, pay attention to every half hour to move the neck, you can prevent cervical spondylosis; the initial stage of patients can be improved with proper rest and correct exercise. And the vast majority of patients with herniated discs should choose regular hospital treatment, never find non-professional medical people for informal massage treatment, improper massage can cause serious adhesion of tissues, and may even aggravate the disease, leading to paraplegia. If conservative treatment is not effective, surgery can be considered, but open surgery is traumatic, expensive, and has more postoperative complications, which is less suitable for elderly patients and patients with chronic diseases. If the modern medical minimally invasive technology, percutaneous minimally invasive laser disc decompression, is used, the effect of treating cervical and lumbar disc herniation is very accurate as proven by thousands of clinical cases.
Laser is an artificial light produced by the high-energy excitation of material atoms, which has the characteristics of high brightness, high monochromaticity, high directionality and high coherence. The application of laser surgery in the medical field mainly utilizes the thermal, mechanical cutting effect of intense laser light on biological tissues. When the laser light hits the tissue surface and is completely absorbed, the local temperature rises rapidly, dehydrating the tissue and producing coagulation and atrophy so that the tissue is completely vaporized and absorbed. The main advantages of percutaneous laser intervertebral disc vaporization and decompression:
1, basically no bleeding: the operation is performed by inserting a 1.3 mm diameter puncture needle into the herniated disc, so there is basically no bleeding. 2.Treatment by local anesthesia only: Local anesthesia is administered at the puncture site, which enables some patients with heart disease and diabetes who cannot undergo general anesthesia to receive the procedure. Short hospitalization time: from the injection of anesthetic to the end of the operation, it takes about 30 minutes. You can basically resume your normal life 3 days after the surgery. 3. No scars: Since only fine needles are inserted into the body and laser fibers are introduced, no scars are left on the skin.
Good efficacy: among the patients treated, 60% were cured on the same day after surgery, 20% were cured one week after surgery, and 10% were cured one month after surgery, which is comparable to the effect of open surgery. 4, high safety: to overcome the occurrence of spinal instability, nerve root injury, paraplegia and other complications caused by open surgery. 5, lower fees: compared with the traditional open surgery tens of thousands of dollars, the surgery significantly reduced the patient’s hospital costs. The above information is provided by Director Song Yujie of the Department of Orthopaedics, Red Cross Hospital of Heilongjiang Province