Serious symptoms of cervical spondylosis

Everyone should be familiar with cervical spondylosis. Nowadays, more and more people suffer from cervical spondylosis. Cervical spondylosis has a great impact on us, especially among middle-aged people. Cervical spondylosis is very common, but now there are also many young people suffering from cervical spondylosis. If you have cervical spondylosis, you must be able to treat it in time, otherwise it will have a great impact. Let’s take a look at the serious symptoms of cervical spondylosis.

If cervical spondylosis becomes serious, it can cause great harm. Nowadays, people should all have cervical spondylosis. Cervical spondylosis has a lot of impact on us, but no one can get timely treatment. If we know the serious symptoms of cervical spondylosis, we will not take it lightly.

1. Stroke

More than 90% of stroke patients have cervical spondylosis, and many people still don't know the cause after a stroke. When pathological changes occur in the cervical spine, the intervertebral disc becomes thinner and shorter, causing the intervertebral space to narrow, causing the vertebral artery to be compressed and deformed, and may also cause compression of the vertebral artery. The third section of the vertebral artery may be compressed to cause twisting, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the basilar artery. On the basis of cerebral arteriosclerosis in middle-aged and elderly people, cervical spondylosis aggravates the insufficient blood supply to the brain, which may slow down the blood flow in the cerebral blood vessels, increase the chance of thrombosis, and easily induce a stroke. Therefore, middle-aged and elderly patients with cervical spondylosis should receive timely treatment.

2. Insomnia:

The cerebral blood supply is insufficient due to compression of the vertebral artery. Direct compression of the vertebral artery by cervical spondylosis, or stimulation of the artery to cause spasm, can cause vertebral artery blood circulation disorders, leading to insufficient blood supply to the brain. Even if you do not feel any discomfort during the day, if you use a pillow of inappropriate height when lying in bed at night, you may still put pressure on your cervical spine. So some people are fine during the day, but suffer from insomnia and nightmares at night. At this time, you can consider changing to a suitable pillow. Patients with insomnia caused by cervical spondylosis cannot rely solely on symptomatic treatment with sedatives and sleeping pills, but must adopt comprehensive treatment from the cause, such as massage, traction and appropriate exercise.

3. Sudden onset of vertigo:

Headache, dizziness, even nausea, vomiting, transient blindness accompanied by lightheadedness, heaviness in the head, etc., and even the feeling of fainting or sudden fainting, and waking up later and being like a normal person. It is mainly caused by compression of the vertebral artery, and sudden fainting often leads to serious consequences. Vertigo is triggered by changes in body position caused by extension or rotation of the neck. Vertigo caused by ischemic lesions of the vestibular nucleus[1] generally lasts for a short time, disappearing within seconds to minutes. During the onset of the disease, the patient may experience mild unconsciousness and movement disorders, manifested as unsteady walking or leaning to one side. Vertigo caused by ischemic lesions of the labyrinth is not accompanied by impaired consciousness.

4. Severe memory loss:

The memory has obviously declined, and one loses things, forgets to do things until now, cannot remember what happened yesterday, and even cannot remember whether one has eaten. It is caused by compression of the vertebral artery by the cervical spine, which may lead to cerebral infarction or even cerebral hemorrhage in severe cases.

If serious symptoms of cervical spondylosis occur, it will cause great harm to the patient's life, especially the phenomenon of stroke, which will not only make the patient himself very painful, but also greatly affect his family. Therefore, we must be able to prevent the occurrence of cervical spondylosis in time. If you find that you have cervical spondylosis, you must adjust it in time.