Can cervical spondylosis cause weakness in the lower extremities

This is the most common symptom of spinal cervical spondylosis, which is mainly caused by the compression of the spinal cord in the cervical spinal canal due to cervical disc herniation, cervical ligament calcification or osteophytes, etc. The main clinical manifestation is the feeling of walking with one foot high and one foot low like stepping on cotton. Feeling increasingly severe symptoms of weakness in the lower limbs, you should go to the hospital for a cervical MRI to clarify the characteristics of the above-mentioned cervical spine pathological changes on the spinal cord compression. The lesion shows particularly serious, and the symptoms are gradually progressively aggravated, should carry out surgical treatment of cervical spine lesions, conservative treatment effect is not obvious, otherwise muscle atrophy can occur after a long period of spinal cord compression resulting in weakness of the lower limbs, in turn, surgical treatment, the whole disease recovery time is long, and the surgical treatment effect is poor.