Can sleeping with a wine bottle as a pillow cure cervical spondylosis?

Sleeping with a beer bottle can achieve a certain therapeutic effect if you have cervical spondylosis. It seems simple and it does have a certain effect. However, for ordinary patients with cervical spondylosis, this method has a certain specificity, so you can't follow it blindly. There are certain prerequisites for using a beer bottle to treat cervical spondylosis. In addition, you must also be careful when treating cervical spondylosis. You can't treat cervical bone spurs as cervical spondylosis.

Using a beer bottle as a pillow is a good way to treat cervical spondylosis. First, the patient must be a short person; second, the cause of the patient's illness is mainly the straightening of the physiological curvature of the cervical spine, and there are no other serious changes in the structure of the cervical spine; third, the patient is not in the acute inflammatory stage. The arc-shaped curvature of the beer bottle can, in certain circumstances, help straighten the physiological curvature of the cervical spine and thus have a certain therapeutic effect. The length of the cervical spine of a normal adult is generally 13-16 cm, while the circumference of a beer bottle is shorter, so it has less therapeutic effect on patients with longer cervical spine (tall people). It may also cause neck muscle spasms due to excessive restriction of the cervical spine position. Of course, in addition to using a beer bottle as a pillow to treat cervical spondylosis, there are many other similar treatment misunderstandings. Let's take stock of those treatment misunderstandings for cervical spondylosis:

Don't mistake cervical bone spurs for cervical spondylosis. Many people think they have cervical spondylosis when they find bone spurs growing on their cervical spine during physical examinations and X-rays. In fact, the appearance of bone spurs is the normal degeneration of the body, just like white hair and wrinkles when people get old. It is a normal physiological state and does not necessarily lead to cervical spondylosis. Cervical spondylosis, like lumbar spondylosis, cannot be diagnosed solely based on films (X-rays, CT films, MRI films). The patient must be examined in detail to see if there are any related symptoms of nerve roots, vertebral arteries, sympathetic nerves, spinal cord, etc., and then to check whether these symptoms are caused by changes in the cervical spine. If these symptoms and characteristics are not present, cervical spondylosis cannot be diagnosed based solely on X-rays, because many patients' cervical spine shows structural changes on X-rays, but there are no related symptoms. We can only say that there are degenerative changes in the cervical spine, but cannot diagnose it as cervical spondylosis.

Don't mistake cervical spondylosis for other diseases. There are many classifications of cervical spondylosis. For example, vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis is often mistaken for Meniere's disease and arteriosclerosis. Due to the complex anatomical structure of the neck, its symptoms are also diverse. About 5% of atypical patients are easily confused with osteoarthritis, stomach disease, neurosis, menopausal syndrome, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Once blindly treated, there will be certain hidden risks, so patients should choose to go to regular medical institutions for treatment. To prevent and treat cervical spondylosis, do not treat minor illnesses with major treatments. Some patients, especially some mild or early-stage patients, lack knowledge about the prevention and treatment of cervical spondylosis and are eager to seek medical treatment. They think that using more and better medicines can quickly cure the disease. They often use a combination of Chinese and Western medicines, massage, external application of medicines, and acupuncture together, resulting in major treatments for minor illnesses and overtreatment, which is counterproductive. Don't be afraid of surgery to treat cervical spondylosis. Some patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy develop numbness of hands and feet, walking difficulties, and incontinence due to the severity of the disease. Doctors advise patients to undergo surgery, but some patients give up when they think of the difficulty and risks of the surgery. Little do people know that cervical spondylotic myelopathy is the main type of cervical spondylosis that requires clinical intervention by a doctor. If patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy still use non-surgical methods, it is difficult to achieve satisfactory results.

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