Do you have symptoms of cervical spondylosis?

Bone hyperplasia is a common chronic bone disease among middle-aged and elderly people. Cervical spondylosis is also very common. Patients will experience limited neck movement, inflexible fingers, and even inability to hold things. Severe cases may even cause paralysis. Good care is required and active cooperation with treatment is required.

1. Symptoms of cervical spondylosis

(1) Radiculopathy symptoms: pain in the back of the neck and shoulders, with a tingling or electric shock-like numbness; limited neck movement, weakened grip strength, stiff fingers, and difficulty with fine movements. I can't hold things with my hands.

(2) Spinal cord type symptoms: This type is most likely to cause paralysis, and is often manifested by unstable gait, clumsy walking, feeling as if the soles of the feet are stepping on cotton, numbness of one or both upper limbs, weakness in the hands, or easy loss of held objects.

(3) Sympathetic nervous system symptoms: blurred vision, weak eyelids, swollen and painful eye sockets, tearing; tachycardia or bradycardia, precordial pain and high blood pressure, cold limbs, and hypothermia. When exposed to cold, the limbs may feel a tingling sensation, followed by redness, swelling, or increased pain; the head, face, and neck may also feel numbness or pain, and there may be tinnitus, deafness, and numbness of the tongue.

(4) Vertebral artery type symptoms: headache, dizziness, cerebral ischemia; dizziness, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, deafness, blurred vision, etc. when the head turns to a certain direction; sudden numbness of limbs, abnormal sensation, inability to hold objects or sudden fall, etc.

2. Professional care for bone hyperplasia

1. Emotional care

The disease is caused by kidney deficiency, blood stasis, and imbalance of internal and external yin and yang, which lead to pain, inability to move freely, and prolonged and repeated attacks. It can easily make patients anxious and lose confidence in curing the disease, which directly affects the treatment effect. Nurses should be enthusiastic when receiving patients and make sure that patients fully understand the principles of treatment and key points of nursing care so that they can eliminate their worries, stabilize their emotions, and build confidence in overcoming the disease. Be able to actively cooperate with treatment, actively enhance functional exercises, and strive for early recovery.

2. Diet care

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired constitution, and diet and disease are closely related. Eating disorders affect the body's production of Qi and blood, leading to Qi and blood deficiency and malnutrition of muscles and bones. During the treatment, heat-promoting and blood-activating drugs are often used. Patients should be advised to eat more vegetables, fruits and foods containing crude fiber, eat nuts frequently, pay attention to nutritional supplements, avoid spicy foods, quit smoking and drinking, and develop good eating habits.