In outpatient clinics and online consultations, many people will ask me: Doctor, I always have numbness in my hands lately, is it related to the cervical spine? What should I do? First of all, it needs to be clear that not all hand numbness symptoms are caused by cervical spondylosis. 1. Hand numbness caused by cervical spondylosis tends to be distributed in strips, often accompanied by pain, weakness, and neck or shoulder activities will aggravate or alleviate these hand numbness symptoms. Illustration: cervical spondylosis caused by pain, numbness presenting a cord-like 2, if the arm, wrist at the nerve is compressed, will also produce hand numbness symptoms, such as thoracic outlet syndrome, elbow tube syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome (mouse hand) and so on. 3, of course, hand numbness also need to beware of cerebrovascular problems, if an elderly patient, often appear numb hands and feet, to consider the possibility of cerebral arteriosclerosis, the longer the duration of the symptoms, the more should be consulted as soon as possible to avoid the risk of thrombosis. 4, sometimes there are very extreme cases, for example, one of my young male patients with intractable pain in the shoulder with numbness on one side of the hand, cervical spine examination how can not explain his symptoms, and then check the shoulder NMR found to be a malignant tumor in the shoulder compression of the nerve. Secondly, what to do is to decide the treatment plan only after a clear diagnosis. Therefore, if there is a long time and more fixed hand numbness symptoms, you need to go to the hospital to clarify the cause of the disease, according to the cause of the choice of treatment program. If the diagnosis is cervical spondylosis cause hand numbness symptoms, generally according to the severity of the symptoms to choose the appropriate treatment, most of the nerve root cervical spondylosis can be relieved through conservative treatment to alleviate the symptoms of the conservative treatment can be through the wearing of a medical cervical brace, traction, choose the right pillow, appropriate exercise, do cervical spine exercises, with the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs and nutritive nerve drugs or topical. . In severe cases of cervical spondylosis or when conservative treatment is ineffective, surgical treatment should be considered.