Cervical spine onset to full rest, three weeks of treatment can not be less;
Neck, shoulder and arm pain can be observed, limb numbness and leg weakness need to be opened.
Wear a neck brace with bed rest, anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs;
Physiotherapy traction down pillow, home conditioning do not run around.
Conservative treatment according to the natural, calm and relaxed easy to good;
Three weeks is not good, then March, March is not effective people rarely.
Surgery is needed to remove the compression, the condition is serious early;
The risk of surgery is five out of a hundred, and nine out of ten diseases will be eliminated.
The key to health care is less head down, head and neck against cervical spine exercises;
The most important thing is to stop smoking and coughing and learn how to swim, avoid jumping and overworking.
Modern people work at a fast pace, and many need to work voluntarily, resulting in an increasing number of cervical spondylosis patients, how to prevent and treat cervical spondylosis has become a confusion for many people. Chen Gang, director of the Department of Orthopedics of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, based on his experience accumulated through years of work, created a song about the professional and difficult to understand prevention and treatment methods of cervical spondylosis, with just 20 sentences and 140 characters, which is easy to understand and sings the correct rescue and treatment methods with a simple melody so that everyone can learn the relevant knowledge.
”Cervical spine onset to full rest, three weeks of treatment can not be less; neck, shoulder and arm pain can be observed, limb numbness and leg weakness need to open surgery. The bed with wearing a neck circumference, anti-inflammatory analgesic muscle relaxation drugs; physiotherapy traction down pillow, home conditioning do not run around. ……” the reporter learned that this short 20 lines of lyrics of the song called “Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of cervical spondylosis song”, was created by the director of the Department of Orthopedics of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital Chen just fresh yesterday morning, in the doctors and patients has caused a lot of resonance.
Director Chen told reporters that the main meaning of the song is that rest is very important at the onset of cervical spondylosis, and absolute bed rest is required in severe cases. Most patients with cervical spondylosis, mainly neck, shoulder and arm pain, can have their symptoms relieved through conservative treatment for 3 weeks to 3 months; however, some patients need surgery, especially those with spinal cervical spondylosis characterized by “numbness in hands and feet and unstable walking”, and once diagnosed, more than 80% of them need surgery, and the sooner it is done, the better. The sooner the surgery is performed, the better.
However, since cervical spondylosis is a degenerative disease, a physiological pathological process that occurs with age, patients who are treated conservatively or surgically should strengthen cervical spine maintenance. Normally, we should do to adjust the bad work and life habits posture, reduce the time of low head and heavy housework, quit smoking, and avoid strenuous sports such as running and jumping bouncing; when there are no cervical spondylosis symptoms, we should insist on doing cervical spine health exercises or swimming exercises, otherwise cervical spondylosis symptoms can recur.
”The song is very simple, in-depth, the lyrics are also very good to remember, the following we have to choreograph into a dance. I hope this song can help the majority of cervical spondylosis patients, if everyone can learn it, cervical spondylosis will not be difficult for patients in the future.” Director Chen also said that now there are many channels to obtain knowledge about cervical spondylosis, but many descriptions of conservative treatment methods are not complete scientific, such as to emphasize the course of treatment, 3 weeks to 3 months; not to overemphasize the role of drugs and prescriptions, while ignoring recuperation and health care; to emphasize that although most people can be relieved of symptoms through conservative treatment, but there are still some patients must be operated, but also not over-exaggerated The risk of surgery should not be overstated, otherwise, many times the best treatment time will be delayed or even the more serious the treatment. Treatment of cervical spondylosis is a systematic work, if you are not sure, you should go to the regular hospital spine specialist in time to listen to the doctor’s advice.
Director Chen Gang stressed – having cervical spondylosis is not terrible, the following points should be noted.
1) Treatment of cervical spondylosis, not treatment of bone spurs
Having a bone spur is not the same as having cervical spondylosis. Among middle-aged and elderly people, 60% to 90% of them have bone spurs in their cervical spine because the cervical spine undergoes degenerative changes when people are old. Some middle-aged and elderly people go to the hospital to do X-ray, CT or MRI examination, often hear the doctor say “your cervical spine has osteophytes”, “disc protrusion”, or “spinal stenosis” etc., then they think they are suffering from cervical spondylosis. In fact, these changes are not the same as having cervical spondylosis.
It is only when these changes compress the nerves and there is damaging inflammation at the site of compression that the nerves are stimulated to produce symptoms, which is considered to have cervical spondylosis. Therefore, having a bone spur is not the same as having cervical spondylosis; having a herniated disc or spinal stenosis is not the same as having cervical spondylosis. And our treatment of cervical spondylosis is not the treatment of bone spurs, herniated discs or spinal stenosis, but the treatment of “injury” and “compression”.
2) Tui-na massage, do enough “homework”
Massage has a long tradition in China and is highly respected. But cervical spondylosis do massage also has its indications, we should be clearly diagnosed, and then consider whether the need for this method of treatment, which is safe. When long hours of ambulatory work, resulting in neck strain, muscle spasm pain, after manipulation massage, can make the muscle relaxation, the patient often feel comfortable. However, the symptoms of cervical spondylosis are produced by compression of nerve structures with injurious inflammatory stimulation.
Blindly applying external force to the cervical spine without understanding the condition without cervical spine MRI, etc., which can reflect the state of spinal cord compression, is not only detrimental to treatment, but often aggravates the injury and hinders treatment. For patients with spinal cord cervical spondylosis or developmental cervical spinal stenosis, the spinal cord is close to the state of compression, especially massage and massage should be absolutely contraindicated. In fact, there have been many clinical reports of tetraplegia due to massage in such cases. So whether you can massage massage should be made by cervical spondylosis experts according to the condition; massage massage must go to the regular hospital, please have comprehensive medical knowledge of the massage therapist to administer.
3) Important! Protect the cervical spine from injury
The main role of the cervical spine is to support the head and protect the nerves. In life, the head often occurs due to the needs of the senses, different directions of activity and in different postures. This requires the cervical spine to be able to move dynamically as well as to give stable support in different postures. These functions of the cervical spine are diminished when the intervertebral discs degenerate and become unstable between segments, or when the muscles are not sufficiently developed.
Therefore, prolonged ambulatory operation, such as operating a computer, reading, writing, playing cards, etc., or prolonged sitting in a fixed position, such as driving, meeting, or head and neck accidentally doing some kind of action, such as sleeping while sitting in a car, fighting with each other, manipulating pushing, falling pillow, etc., these situations may cause some degree of chronic strain on the cervical spine, or acute injury, causing cervical spondylosis attack, or due to soft tissue injury and pain. In short, being in a certain weight-bearing position for a long time in a static and forced manner is not good for the cervical spine. A favorable measure to maintain the cervical spine should be to exercise the muscles of the back of the collar and maintain proper voluntary movement of the neck.
In terms of conservative treatment, the main thing is bed rest or appropriate restriction of weight-bearing on the cervical spine. When lying in bed, the cervical spine will no longer support the head, and the relative stillness will be conducive to the remission of injurious inflammation, and then some anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drugs and suitable physical therapy will be added, which will also be beneficial to the treatment.