How to correctly view traction therapy and massage therapy for cervical spondylosis?

  Although traction is one of the common methods of treating cervical spondylosis, it is simple and effective. However, not all cervical spondylosis can be treated by traction. However, patients often lack knowledge in this area, and do not understand the indications and contraindications of traction as well as traction precautions, and blindly traction, which results in adverse consequences.  Clinically, we found through observation that blind traction often causes the following kinds of damage: 1, cervical muscle and ligament static injury, the clinical manifestation is similar to the fallen pillow; 2, nerve root injury, the appearance of upper limb numbness, pain; 3, vertebral small joint dysfunction, manifesting as neck activity limitation; 4, vertebral artery distortion, reduced blood supply, manifesting as vertigo; 5, vertebral artery plaque detachment, easy to cause cavernous cerebral embolism;  6, occipital nerve injury, manifesting as headache.  In the clinic also found that some patients are not really not suitable for traction, but traction method and time is not well mastered, so that the more traction more pain. This kind of situation is mostly due to the patient’s traction weight is excessive, traction time is too long and cause muscle and ligament static injury, so there is increased neck pain; or cause the cervical vertebra attached ligament relaxation, reduce the stability of the cervical vertebra, cause vertebral small joint dysfunction, so there is limited neck movement; and if cause the vertebral artery distortion, so that the blood supply there is reduced, it is easy to appear vertigo symptoms. Your dizziness may be related to this.  A special reminder is that traction is not a panacea, and it is not the only way to treat cervical spondylosis. When you suffer from cervical spine disease, you should first find a professional doctor to help you analyze which aspect of treatment you need and choose the best solution for yourself. If traction is necessary, you must be guided by a doctor and informed of precautions before proceeding to avoid delaying or even aggravating the condition.  Depending on the compression and stimulation of important tissues, cervical spondylosis is divided into the following types: nerve root type, spinal cord type, vertebral artery type, sympathetic nerve type, cervical type, esophageal type, and mixed type.  There are more treatment methods for cervical spondylosis, and massage is a common method for treating cervical spondylosis. Massage can relieve local muscle spasm, improve local blood circulation, strengthen the strength of the neck muscles, increase the stability of the cervical spine and achieve the purpose of relieving symptoms, and it is applicable to most patients with cervical spondylosis.