Symptoms and treatment of cervical spondylosis

With the progress of modern society, people's work and life have become busy. On their days off, they like to stay at home and not go out, let alone exercise. Mobile phones and computers bring people convenient information life but also bring people cervical spondylosis. Why? When our cervical spine is in a certain posture for a long time, it will lead to poor blood circulation in the cervical spine, which can easily cause periarthritis of the shoulder, cervical spondylosis, etc. In contemporary society, you should know the symptoms and treatments of cervical spondylosis. In fact, we can use this knowledge to prevent and self-treat in our daily lives.

The clinical symptoms of cervical spondylosis are relatively complex. The main symptoms include neck and back pain, upper limb weakness, numbness of fingers, lower limb weakness, difficulty walking, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even blurred vision, tachycardia and difficulty swallowing. The clinical symptoms of cervical spondylosis are related to the site of the lesion, the degree of tissue involvement and individual differences.

1. Radiculopathy of cervical spondylosis: It has typical radicular symptoms (numbness, pain), and the range is consistent with the area innervated by the cervical spinal nerves. Diseases other than the cervical spine, such as thoracic outlet syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, and frozen shoulder, which are the main causes of upper limb pain, are excluded.

2. Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: clinical manifestations of cervical spinal cord damage. Excludes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal cord tumors, spinal cord injury, multiple peripheral neuritis, etc.

3. Vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis: There have been attacks of cataplexy. Accompanied by cervical vertigo. Often accompanied by sympathetic nervous system symptoms.

4. Sympathetic cervical spondylosis: manifested by a series of sympathetic nerve symptoms such as dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, numbness of hands, tachycardia, precordial pain, etc. X-rays show instability or degeneration of the cervical spine. Vertebral arteriography was negative.

5. Esophageal compression type cervical spondylosis: The bird-beak-like hyperplasia in front of the cervical vertebrae compresses the esophagus and causes difficulty in swallowing (confirmed by esophageal barium examination), etc.

6. Cervical type cervical spondylosis: Cervical type cervical spondylosis is also called local cervical spondylosis, which refers to pain in the head, shoulders, neck, and arms and corresponding tender points.

Treatments for cervical spondylosis: drug therapy, exercise therapy, traction therapy, manual massage therapy, physical therapy, and hot compress therapy. The treatment of cervical spondylosis is actually quite simple. The important thing is not to sit in a position for a long time. Walk more and move the cervical spine more to prevent it.