Conservative treatment of cervical spondylosis “three steps”

     It is very common for adolescent or middle-aged patients to suffer from neck pain and discomfort, even headache and dizziness, nausea, insomnia, etc., caused by excessive head-down work or study (some patients often play mahjong, computer games, Internet or manual cross-stitching, etc.), and the X-ray shows straightening of the cervical curvature or anti-arch, and the best way is the “three steps” of cervical spine conservative treatment “: hot compress method – bean pillow method – confrontation method.    I. Hot compress method: Hot compress with hot water bag or hot towel on the cervical collar twice a day (once after getting up in the morning and once before going to bed at night, 10 minutes each time) helps to relax the neck muscles, improve local blood circulation and reduce dizziness caused by spasm of vertebral artery. With the neck, the back of the occipital pain, coated with topical anti-inflammatory painkillers such as Fotalin latex; Second, the bean pillow method: sleep neck (note that not the head, the head does not pillow anything) pillow homemade bean pillow. Method: homemade length * width * height = 30cm * 12cm * 6cm size of the pillow, filled with eighty to ninety percent of the soybeans or peas, sleep at night lying face up, pillow at the neck. About a month will be able to restore the physiological curvature of the cervical spine. Beans pillow size design in line with the cervical spine physiological curvature, can quickly improve the cervical spine physiological curvature, and automatic massage effect, can relax muscle spasm, relieve neck pain, better than the market a variety of health pillow, massage pillow, etc., can be long-term use; three, confrontation method: a good method of cervical muscle exercise. Crossed hands, palms placed behind the pillow forward force, head backward force, hands and head against each other, the force should not be too large, force quite 1 to 2 minutes, rest 10 seconds, then do it again, repeat to do half an hour, twice a day; usually recommended twice a day after the hot compress, such as the usual low work strain, feeling neck pain discomfort can do 5 to 10 minutes, with miraculous results! You can also often play badminton to replace this method, but the confrontation method is more convenient and direct.    For patients with cervical spondylosis or cervical collar muscle strain without surgical indications (a small number of patients need occipito-mandibular band hyperextension traction and / or brace braking, very few need surgery), cervical spine conservative treatment “three steps”, far better than oral intake of many, many, various drugs. After healing, the second and third steps are very good health care treatments that can prevent recurrence or aggravation by long-term adherence. This method is not all-inclusive, but it can solve the problems of most patients. Many patients have achieved very satisfactory results after guided treatment. For some of those with poor results from conservative treatment, other treatment options may be considered for change.