What are the best ways to treat cervical spondylosis?

If you suffer from cervical spondylosis, you must take treatment measures as soon as possible. Effective treatments include oral medication, which is very effective in relieving local pain, as well as anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxation. It can also be treated and improved through traction and physical therapy.

1. Oral drug treatment: mainly used for relieving pain, local anti-inflammatory, and muscle relaxation. It has a clear effect on local soft tissue strain secondary to cervical instability, but it cannot fundamentally treat cervical spondylosis. For patients with limb weakness or numbness, neurotrophic drugs can be used to assist rehabilitation and promote the recovery of compressed nerves.

2. Traction method: Through the mutual balance between traction force and counter-traction force, the head and neck are relatively fixed in the physiological curve state, so that the phenomenon of abnormal cervical curve is gradually changed, but its efficacy is limited and it is only suitable for patients with mild radiculopathy of cervical spondylosis; and traction is prohibited in the acute phase to prevent local inflammation and edema from worsening.

3. Physiotherapy: Physiotherapy is the abbreviation of physical therapy. It is the application of various natural and artificial physical factors, such as sound, light, electricity, heat, magnetism, etc., to the human body in order to achieve the purpose of treating and preventing diseases. But its effect is also relatively weak and cannot provide a fundamental treatment. Frequent physical therapy can easily cause burns to the skin.

4. Traditional Chinese medicine is profound and extensive, but its efficacy has a lot to do with the doctor's personal experience and needs to be chosen with caution.

5. Surgical treatment

For patients with a clear diagnosis of cervical spondylosis, severe symptoms of nerve root compression, and no significant improvement in symptoms after conservative treatment, surgical treatment should be adopted. For patients with spinal cervical spondylosis, that is, patients whose main symptoms are weakness and unsteady walking in both lower limbs, surgical treatment should be performed as soon as possible to obtain a good recovery effect, because the treatment effect of this type of patients is closely related to the duration of nerve compression. However, for patients with vertebral artery and sympathetic nerve excitation types, the surgical effect is relatively uncertain.