What is cervical vertigo?

  Cervical vertigo refers to vertigo caused by insufficient blood supply to the vertebral artery due to cervical lesions, and often has the following characteristics: dizziness or vertigo accompanied by neck pain; dizziness or vertigo mostly occurs after neck activities; often accompanied by nausea and occasional vomiting, and the symptoms disappear or are significantly reduced after stopping activities and resting for a while, and some patients have high blood pressure. The onset of this disease is sudden and sudden collapse may occur in severe cases; some patients have positive cervical torsion test; abnormal cervical X-ray examination, such as cervical retroflexion, vertebral instability and disc herniation. Cervical vertigo mostly occurs in patients over 40 years old, and there is no significant difference between men and women.  For workers who often work at desk, use computer or have long time low head surgery, to avoid the occurrence of cervical vertigo, it is necessary to strengthen the training of neck muscle strength, such as Xiao Yan Fei, neck muscle confrontation training, lazy back stretching, etc.; for those who already have signs of the disease, they can rest quietly and use pillow to cushion the neck during the attack, or use external fixation of neck brace to relieve it. For serious cases, it is necessary to go to the hospital for targeted treatment, such as using anti-dizziness drugs, Chinese herbal medicines to benefit qi and raise yang, and physical therapy such as traction, acupuncture, and tui-na orthopedic treatment to improve blood supply to the brain and correct the reflexion and instability of the cervical spine.  To prevent cervical vertigo, you can start from the following points: 1. The height of the pillow is 10~15cm, the neck should be pillowed on the pillow, not suspended, so that the head is kept slightly back. If you are used to lying on your side, you should make the pillow as high as your shoulder. 2. avoid over-extension and over-flexion of the neck. 3. avoid a long time posture, such as long-term ambulatory work, you should get up after an hour to move around. 4. avoid neck trauma: such as driving as slow as possible, reduce emergency braking, can prevent neck injury. 5. pay attention to the exercise of the neck muscles: the neck muscles are strong, the cervical spine is well protected and less prone to injury. It is less likely to be damaged.  Through the summary and research of clinical treatment of cervical vertigo, I would like to introduce a set of cervical spine exercises: 1.Totian with hands up, palms up, head up, slowly rotate to both sides and pull each other’s hands. 2.Freestyle Sitting posture, do the action similar to freestyle. The head moves with the hands. 3, turn the neck The head rotates in all directions to the extent that it can move, do not be painful. 4, press the neck hands hold the back of the head, hands forward with force, the head backward with force, against each other. It can exercise the neck muscles.