What should I do if I have severe cervical pain

The following measures can be taken to deal with severe cervical pain: first, the use of the cervical spine should be completely stopped. At this time, the patient needs to maintain strict bed rest, brake rest, sometimes doctors will also use continuous cervical traction for such patients, so that the muscles on both sides of the cervical spine can gradually relax, and make the small joints of the cervical vertebrae gradually to achieve the reset. Secondly, on this basis, Chinese patent medicines or Chinese herbal tonics that can activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis and warm the channels and collaterals should be used to treat the patients. On this basis, acupuncture, tuina, cupping, bloodletting and other physiotherapy should be used. Among them, bloodletting with cupping is relatively more effective. Third, for this kind of patients can choose a period of time to carry out orthopedic manipulation reset. That is to say, after a period of traction, we need to ask qualified and experienced physicians to perform orthopedic manipulation of the cervical spine. After that, the above treatment will be carried out for a period of time. Fourth, the patient needs to do the corresponding functional exercises under the guidance of the doctor during the recovery period, such as practicing the Five Animal Play, Eight Duan Jin and so on. In addition, you need to avoid relevant triggering factors under the guidance of the doctor, such as prolonged sitting and standing with the head down or the neck is cold and so on.