Everyone recognizes the spine, but you may not really know about spondylosis. Starting from the neck and continuing to the lower back, our spine connects up and down to support our bodies. If you have a sore neck or low back, you may think it’s time to check your spine. But if you suddenly can not see well, diarrhea or constipation, gynecological diseases or men’s diseases, you may be running around the ophthalmology, neurology, gastroenterology, gynecology, men’s, but you would think that these actually may also be related to the spine? Xue Mingxin of the massage department of Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine In fact, “spine-related diseases” have begun to be more and more attention in the medical community, let’s quickly get to know it. First, let’s get to know your spine. The spine is a multifunctional pillar, which is the central axis of the body and the attachment site for many skeletal muscles, supporting weight and movement; it also provides security for our information center – the spinal cord and spinal nerves, as well as a suitable environment for the autonomic nerves that govern the activities of internal organs. Therefore, once the spine has problems, it will seriously affect the immediate communication of the body’s vital information, which in turn affects its physical health. The spine itself has 4 physiological curves, cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral, and consists of 24 vertebrae (7 cervical, 12 thoracic and 5 lumbar), 1 sacrum and 1 coccyx connected by ligaments, joints and intervertebral discs. Problems in the cervical, thoracic, or lumbar spine can cause pain and discomfort in the spine and surrounding tissues, affect motor function, and affect the spinal cord, spinal nerves, or autonomic nerves, resulting in a variety of symptoms. Cervical Spine Problems and Visual Impairment Problems with the cervical spine can cause headaches, dizziness, and even visual impairment, in addition to neck pain. For example, some people are fine, a turn back on the sudden blindness, and then rest for more than ten seconds can be restored; some people have double vision double shadow (double vision), monocular vision tends to alleviate or disappear; there are paroxysmal vision loss, blurred vision, visual field defects, eye flashes flash color; and these vision disorders are often accompanied by a number of cervical vertebrae disease, such as neck stiffness, neck pain, scapular back pain, then This is likely to be a cervicogenic visual impairment. This kind of visual impairment is due to the patient’s cervical spine problems, resulting in vegetative nerve dysfunction, so the patient in the visual impairment at the same time, often have different degrees of cervical spondylosis symptoms and signs. The ophthalmologic examination of such patients is mostly without abnormality, and they need to be treated according to cervical spondylosis in order to receive better results. Thoracic spine problems and intestinal problems If we have thoracic spine problems, then it is easy to have chest pain, back pain, and may also have some symptoms of suspected cardiopulmonary related diseases, but you may not know, it will also bring some suspected digestive problems, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea or constipation. In some cases, patients with thoracic spine instability may present with symptoms that resemble “irritable bowel syndrome”. The patient may have sudden abdominal pain, diarrhea, or constipation for years, but no organic lesions in the digestive tract can be found. In some cases, after receiving orthopedic treatment in the Tui Na Clinic, the digestive symptoms unexpectedly improved, and in retrospect, they realized that there might be a problem with the spine, which affected the related nervous system, and consequently brought about digestive symptoms. There are also elderly patients who have compression fractures of the spine due to osteoporosis. However, the patient does not show any other significant abnormalities, and even the pain is not particularly prominent, that is, prolonged constipation as a symptom. After their spinal problems were properly treated, their constipation improved dramatically. Lumbar Spine Problems and “Men’s Diseases” If there are problems with the lumbar spine, we may suffer from back pain, weakness in the legs and feet, or even mobility problems. However, you may not realize that some gynecological and men’s “hidden” problems may be related to the lumbar spine or even the entire spine. In medicine, there is a problem called “cauda equina syndrome”, the patient is often because of lumbar spine problems, cauda equina nerve root by acute or chronic compression, so caused by low back pain, sciatica, lower limb weakness, incontinence, and sexual dysfunction and other manifestations. Some men seek medical attention for ED (erectile dysfunction), but never realize that they are actually in trouble because of lumbar spine pathology. Lumbar spine problems can also cause some women to experience dysmenorrhea and menstrual irregularities. Of course, it can cause much more than that.