Cervical spondylosis is a clinical syndrome caused by cervical disc degeneration, cervical hypertrophy and hyperplasia as well as cervical injury that leads to cervical spine osteophytes, or disc prolapse and ligament thickening, which stimulates or compresses the cervical crestal medulla, cervical nerves and blood vessels and produces a series of symptoms. The main manifestations are neck and shoulder pain, dizziness and headache, numbness of upper limbs, muscle atrophy, spasm of both lower limbs in severe cases, difficulty in walking, and even paralysis of all four limbs, urinary and fecal disorders, and paralysis. It mostly occurs in middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old, with a higher incidence in men than in women. Cervical spondylosis is one of the common diseases in urban life, and with the improvement of living conditions, more and more people are engaged in office work, the incidence of cervical spondylosis is increasing, and the age of onset tends to be younger and younger. When the following symptoms appear, please be alert to whether you have suffered from cervical spondylosis: 1, neck and shoulder pain can be radiated to the head and occipital region and upper limbs; 2, a heavy feeling in the back of one shoulder, upper limb weakness, numbness in the fingers, reduced sensation of the skin of the limb, hand grip weakness, and sometimes unconscious grip on the ground. 3.Serious typical manifestations are: weakness of the lower limbs, unstable walking, numbness of the second foot, and the feeling of stepping on cotton when walking. 4. In the most serious cases, there is even loss of control of bowel movements and urination, sexual dysfunction, and even tetraplegia. 5, often accompanied by head, neck, shoulder, back and arm pain, neck and neck stiffness, limited movement. 6.Some of them are accompanied by dizziness, house rotation, heavy cases are accompanied by nausea and vomiting, bedridden, a few may have vertigo and sudden collapse. 7.When cervical spondylosis involves sympathetic nerve, dizziness, headache, blurred vision, swelling of the second eye, dryness, inability to open the second eye, tinnitus, ear blockage, loss of balance, tachycardia, panic, tight c feeling in the chest, and some even have symptoms such as gastrointestinal distention. There are also symptoms such as difficulty in swallowing and pronunciation. Most patients with cervical spondylosis start lightly and are not taken seriously, most can recover on their own, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, and only when the symptoms continue to worsen and cannot be reversed, affecting work and life, do they attract attention. If the disease is left untreated for a long time, it can cause psychological damage and produce symptoms such as insomnia, irritability, anger, anxiety and depression. There are many triggering factors for cervical spondylosis, but the common ones can be classified as follows: 1, prolonged head down reading, sitting in the office staff: long-term head and neck in a single position, resulting in local over-activity, injury to local intervertebral discs, ligaments, etc., prone to cervical spondylosis. 2, head and neck trauma personnel: head and neck trauma does not directly cause cervical spondylosis, but is often an aggravating factor for cervical spondylosis symptoms, some patients due to cervical spine osteophytes, cervical disc bulge, soft tissue lesions in the spinal canal caused by cervical spinal canal in a narrow critical state, plus neck trauma often induced symptoms, and even paralysis occurs. Inadequate neck massage is also often reported in the occurrence of paralysis. 3, bad posture: such as lying in bed watching TV, reading books, high pillow, sleeping in a sitting position, etc.; sleeping on a sleeper car, poor muscle protection when sleeping, easy to have neck injury when braking. 4, cervical spine structure dysplasia: congenital small spinal canal is also the basis for the development. The incidence of cervical spondylosis is one times higher than normal in people with a narrow central cervical spinal canal and nerve root canal. If you find yourself in the above situation, please choose the correct medical treatment and means of prevention and treatment. We recommend that you go to a regular hospital and follow medical advice. If you need to continue working, you must pay attention to the following matters: 1. Patients with cervical spondylosis need to change the head and neck position regularly, pay attention to rest and combine work and rest. Lift your head and gently move your neck in all directions, don’t keep your cervical spine in a bent state. The work should not last for a long time, more than 2 hours of continuous low work, it is difficult to make the high pressure in the cervical intervertebral space in a short period of time to get effective recovery relief, which will aggravate and accelerate the degeneration of the cervical spine. 2, patients who already have cervical spondylosis symptoms should reduce their workload and take appropriate rest. Those with heavy symptoms and frequent attacks should stop working and rest absolutely, and, preferably, be able to rest in bed. In this way, during the treatment of cervical spondylosis, it helps to improve the effect of treatment and promote the early relief of the disease and the early recovery of the body. 3, cervical spondylosis patients in the work should avoid prolonged blowing air conditioning, electric fans.
As the onset of cervical spondylosis is the result of a combination of factors, cold and humidity tend to aggravate the symptoms of cervical spondylosis. You should try to reduce the amount of time you spend working with your head down for long periods of time in cold and humid conditions to prevent the appearance of cervical spondylosis symptoms or cervical spondylosis-induced neck and shoulder back pain. 4, cervical spondylosis patients should avoid participating in heavy physical labor, heavy lifting and so on, and should usually pay attention to the protection of the neck to prevent its injury. The upper limbs should avoid lifting heavy objects,
When the upper limbs lift heavy objects, the force can be transferred to the cervical spine through the muscles of the suspended upper limbs, thus causing the cervical spine to be stretched and increasing the mutual pressure between the cervical spine. The symptoms of cervical spondylosis may be aggravated after the patient participates in heavy physical work.