What causes pain on the left side of the cervical spine?

Pain on the left side of the cervical spine is a common phenomenon. Clinically, the most important cause of cervical pain is cervical spondylosis. In addition, if the neck muscles are strained, it is also easy to cause this pain. If the pain is more severe, there may even be a radiating pain, which has a greater impact on health. The pain should be relieved in time, such as massage therapy, acupuncture, cupping, etc.

What causes pain on the left side of the cervical spine?

1. Cervical spondylosis: Cervical spondylosis causes cervical pain, mainly because friends work at a desk for a long time, face the computer for a long time, or drive for a long time, which leads to degenerative changes in the cervical spine. When the changes reach a certain extent, it will cause cervical bone hyperplasia, so cervical pain must be diagnosed and treated in time.

2. Neck muscle strain: In daily life, neck muscle strain is caused by repeated acute damage to the soft tissue of the neck, resulting in traumatic aseptic inflammation and pain in the neck muscles. At this time, the muscles are stimulated to produce a persistent contraction state, muscle tension occurs, and long-term muscle spasms cause local soft tissue spasms, insufficient blood supply to muscles and fascia, nutritional disorders, and aggravated aseptic inflammation of tissues, which leads to cervical pain.

How to relieve cervical pain

First: Relax properly after sitting for a long time

Increase breaks between work appropriately, use rest and activity time to enhance blood circulation throughout the body, eliminate local muscle fatigue, and prevent and relieve cervical strain.

Second: Pay attention to your sitting and standing posture

When working at a desk, you must pay attention to your sitting posture, develop good sitting habits and change the upright position of your head in time, so as to effectively avoid the incidence of cervical spondylosis; whether the pillow is suitable or not is very important for the prevention and treatment of cervical spondylosis. In principle, the requirements for pillows are as follows: the pillow should be one fist high for those who sleep on their backs, and one and a half fists high for those who sleep on their sides (about 10 cm); the pillow core should be made of kapok and buckwheat husk, and it should be properly filled to maintain a certain hardness and elasticity. With the help of a pillow, a normal vertebral position can be formed to reduce the burden on the neck.

Third: Get rid of bad living habits

For patients who already have cervical spondylosis, further injury to the cervical spine will undoubtedly make the situation worse. Therefore, in daily life, we should avoid strenuous activities that may sprain or strain the cervical spine. In addition, a stiff neck caused by bad sleeping habits or pillows can also aggravate cervical spondylosis. In life, you should pay attention to keeping the cervical spine warm, and do not expose the cervical spine directly to low temperature conditions such as electric fans, cold water, and air conditioners. High temperature difference is an important cause of cervical spondylosis.