What to do if cervical spondylosis causes dizziness and insufficient blood supply to the brain

Cervical spondylosis is quite common in daily life. When cervical spondylosis is more serious, it often leads to blood circulation disorders in the brain, resulting in brain hypoxia and insufficient blood supply to the brain. It often causes patients to experience symptoms of dizziness and brain fog. At this time, timely treatment must be carried out, such as traction therapy, massage therapy and other common physical therapies. In addition, drug treatment is also relatively important.

What to do if cervical spondylosis causes dizziness and insufficient blood supply to the brain

1. Indications for traction

Cervical traction is often used as the first choice treatment for radiculopathy, cervical spondylosis and sympathetic cervical spondylosis. However, it is not suitable for patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy who have some obvious spinal cord compression and obvious cervical segmental instability. The method of cervical traction generally uses a cervical pillow and traction belt for cervical traction. Posture: The body position can be sitting or lying. For convenience, it is better to take a stable sitting position, so that the neck tilts forward about 10°-30° from the longitudinal axis of the trunk to avoid hyperextension.

Ask the patient to fully relax the neck, shoulders and entire body muscles. The traction posture should make the patient feel comfortable. If the patient feels uncomfortable, it should be adjusted as appropriate. For patients with vertebral artery type, the forward tilt angle should be relatively small, and patients with spinal cord type cervical spondylosis should adopt a nearly vertical posture, and avoid forward flexion traction.

2. Effects and indications of massage

Cervical spondylosis is caused by prolonged fatigue of the neck, imbalance of Qi and blood, exogenous wind and cold, and blocked meridians. Can massage treatment harmonize Qi and blood, dispel cold, dredge muscles and unblock meridians, thereby achieving the effect of relieving spasms and relieving pain? Massage is suitable for all types of cervical spondylosis except the spinal cord type with severe cervical spinal cord compression. Traditionally, massage therapy is not recommended for cervical spondylotic myelopathy, as it is believed that it may aggravate spinal cord damage. However, there have been reports of safe and effective traction and massage therapy in China. Therefore, massage therapy is not necessarily contraindicated for mild cervical spondylotic myelopathy. However, the technique should be gentle, and twisting and wrench techniques should be avoided.

3. Physical therapy

Physical therapy can improve local blood circulation, relax spasmodic muscles and relieve symptoms. The methods can include high frequency (microwave, ultrashort wave), low and medium frequency electrotherapy (such as TENS, intermittent electrotherapy, computer medium frequency), ultrasound, magnetic therapy, etc.

4. Exercise therapy

The role of exercise therapy Exercise therapy for cervical spondylosis mainly involves medical gymnastics exercises. The purpose and role of medical gymnastics for cervical spondylosis are mainly two aspects:

(1) Through relaxing exercises performed on the neck, blood circulation in the cervical spine area is activated, congestion and edema are eliminated, while stretching the neck and relaxing spasmodic muscles, thereby alleviating symptoms;

(2) Strengthen the neck muscles, enhance their tolerance to fatigue, and improve the stability of the cervical spine, thereby consolidating the treatment effect and preventing recurrence. There are many ways to treat cerebral ischemia caused by cervical spondylosis, such as nerve block therapy, drug therapy, psychotherapy, etc. Patients should seek the doctor's advice, follow the doctor's instructions, and then carry out recovery treatment.