The company employee Xiao Jiang, less than 40 years old, was recently very depressed, the family elders do not have a history of hypertension, the young man found in the first half of the physical examination of high blood pressure, 150/95mmhg. doctor prescribed a drug, the effect is not good, change another drug, the effect is still not good. High blood pressure became his heart disease, changing hospitals, doctors, and medications to control high blood pressure once became his main business. It was not until he understood his situation and asked him if he had any recent neck discomfort, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he suggested that Xiao Jiang go to the acupuncture and massage department to treat his cervical spine. Through careful questioning and examination, the doctor gave him the diagnosis of sympathetic cervical spondylosis. After several massage sessions, Xiao Jiang’s blood pressure was effectively controlled, and after a period of treatment, the neck pain and soreness disappeared. Cervical spondylosis is a disease that occurs when the cervical disc degenerates, causing pressure on the nerve roots, blood vessels, sympathetic nerves and spinal cord in the neck. In mild cases, it only manifests as neck pain and swelling, while in severe cases, symptoms such as hand numbness, dizziness, nausea, panic and unstable walking appear. Very few cervical spondylosis can cause blood pressure to rise, but Xiao Jiang belongs to this “very few” category. The mechanism of why cervical spondylosis can cause blood pressure to rise is not yet clear, but there are two possible reasons: First, because the cervical spine degeneration causes sympathetic nerve compression next to the cervical spine, sympathetic nerve control vasoconstriction, peripheral vasoconstriction reflexively causes blood pressure to rise; Second, the degenerated spine stimulates the vertebral artery, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the basilar artery causing cervical vertigo, and the patient is afraid of vertigo, maintaining a high tension state, prompting blood pressure to The patient is afraid of vertigo and maintains a high state of tension, which leads to an increase in blood pressure. The elevation of blood pressure caused by cervical spondylosis is usually called cervicogenic hypertension, which is secondary to hypertension, and only requires treatment of cervical spondylosis, which is controlled, and blood pressure will return to normal. The mechanism of acupuncture and massage for cervicogenic hypertension is not to reverse the degeneration of the cervical spine, but to reduce the abnormal stimulation of sympathetic nerves and arteries by unblocking the meridians and relaxing the local muscles, so that the pressure in the neck is relieved, thus achieving a therapeutic effect. Patients with hypertension caused by sympathetic cervical spondylosis are generally characterized by a younger age and unsatisfactory results of blood pressure control by medication.