What is neck and shoulder pain? Is it cervical spondylosis? Sitting in front of a computer for a long time, white-collar workers often feel neck and shoulder pain and discomfort, and many people think they have cervical spondylosis. Cervical spondylosis treatment experts point out that equating neck and shoulder pain with cervical spondylosis is actually a one-sided view. The symptoms of cervical spondylosis are complex and varied, and in addition to neck and shoulder pain, there may be dizziness, nausea, and, in severe cases, incontinence and paralysis. From another point of view, it is also a practice to take people’s opinion that neck and shoulder pain is cervical spondylosis out of context. Neck and shoulder pain is not necessarily cervical spondylosis Neck and shoulder pain refers to neck pain caused by neck and cervical spine diseases, and induction and radiation pain in the shoulder and upper limbs. The onset of neck and shoulder pain is slow, and the pain in the neck is mild at the beginning, but it gradually worsens and can radiate to one or both shoulders, arms and hands, with tingling and numbness, and shoulder pain is usually the main cause. Coughing and sneezing may aggravate the pain. There may be long-term recurrent attacks. Many people put on the hat of “cervical spondylosis” when they have symptoms of neck and shoulder pain, but this is very one-sided. Cervical spondylosis is generally a degeneration of the cervical spine, and stimulates or compresses the surrounding spinal cord or nerves or blood vessels, causing some clinical symptoms before it can be called cervical spondylosis. There are many diseases that cause neck and shoulder pain. In addition to cervical spondylosis, other diseases such as drop pillow, frozen shoulder, rheumatic myofibrositis, various congenital deformities and inflammation can also cause neck and shoulder pain. Therefore, do not prematurely label yourself as having cervical spondylosis before undergoing relevant clinical and imaging examinations. Neck and shoulder pain is the main symptom of cervical spondylosis The main symptom of cervical spondylosis is neck and shoulder pain, radiating to the head and occipital region and upper limbs, with a few cases of vertigo, falls, or abnormal facial fever and sweating on one side, and in severe cases, the movement of both lower limbs is affected, or even paraplegia. Specifically, patients may have stiff neck, stiffness, pain, limited neck movement, heavy shoulders and back, muscle hardening, upper limb weakness, numbness of fingers, loss of sensation in the skin of limbs, and sometimes unconscious falling of objects held in the hands; some patients may have lower limb stiffness, seemingly not obeying commands, or lower limb weakness, as if walking on cotton; other patients may even have headache, dizziness, loss of vision, tinnitus, nausea, and other abnormal sensations. Other patients may even have abnormal sensations such as headache, dizziness, vision loss, tinnitus, nausea, etc.; a few patients may have loss of control of urination and defecation, sexual dysfunction, or even tetraplegia. Of course, not all the manifestations will show up in every patient with cervical spondylosis, but often only some of the symptoms appear, and most patients have a mild performance and a long course of disease, so there is no need to smell cervical spondylosis and become pale, not to mention the number of seats at random. White-collar workers need to do a good job in the prevention of neck and shoulder pain 1, in the office to choose the right chair, table, a long time ambulatory, an hour to move a few minutes, an hour or two to change the posture is okay, stand up and walk, open the chest, activities, but also play a role. 2, do not lie down to read, lie down to watch TV, which is also a bad habit. 3, to develop better habits, such as some people play mahjong, a few hours past, when playing do not feel, after playing the shoulder pain, playing computer games, which are some bad habits. 4, sometimes blowing air conditioning, blowing fans in the summer, because it is too hot, but do not blow on people, blowing on sometimes will catch a cold. 5.Strengthen your sports and exercise. What about neck and shoulder pain caused by cervical spondylosis? Experts say that the key to treating neck and shoulder pain caused by cervical spondylosis is also to treat the primary disease. Generally speaking, neck and shoulder pain caused by cervical spondylosis is mainly caused by the pressure on the tissues around the neck. Traditional conservative treatment in the form of acupuncture, massage, traction, closure and physiotherapy can only temporarily relieve the symptoms, but not directly into the foci of the disease and cannot lift the pressure on the surrounding tissues, so it is easy to relapse and will aggravate the condition of cervical spondylosis over time. Surgical treatment for cervical spondylosis is very traumatic and involves risks such as anesthesia accidents, bleeding, wound infection, and accidental injury to other tissues, which can also lead to postoperative spinal instability and recurrence and affect the patient’s future work and life. Minimally invasive therapy, on the other hand, overcomes this drawback very well. The pain specialist has a wonderful way to treat neck and shoulder pain The pain specialist not only adopts oral medication and topical medication, but also adopts pain point block therapy, paravertebral nerve block, extracorporeal shock wave therapy, ultrasound-guided small needle release and other treatment means, and has achieved remarkable results in many neck and shoulder pain patients since the opening of the clinic.