Which department should I go to for cervical spine problems?

Diseases of the cervical spine should attract everyone's attention. Because cervical spondylosis is very difficult to cure completely, and if you suffer from cervical spondylosis, it will bring great inconvenience to your life. Therefore, if you suffer from cervical spine diseases, it is best to go to the hospital for examination and consult a doctor in time. So, which department should you go to for cervical spine problems?

What are the symptoms of cervical spondylosis?

① Neck and shoulder pain can radiate to the headrest and upper limbs.

② There is a feeling of heaviness on one side of the shoulder and back, weakness in the upper limbs, numbness in the fingers, decreased sensation in the skin of the limbs, inability to hold objects, and sometimes unconsciously dropping objects to the ground.

③ In severe cases, typical symptoms include weakness in the lower limbs, unsteady walking, numbness in both feet, and a feeling of walking on cotton.

④ In the most serious cases, patients may experience incontinence, sexual dysfunction, and even paralysis of the limbs.

⑤ Often accompanied by soreness in the head, neck, shoulders, back, arms, stiff neck and limited movement.

⑥ Some are accompanied by dizziness, feeling that the house is spinning. Severe cases are accompanied by nausea and vomiting, and are bedridden. A few may have vertigo and cataplexy.

⑦ When cervical spondylosis involves the sympathetic nerves, dizziness, headache, blurred vision, swollen and dry eyes, inability to open eyes, tinnitus, ear congestion, imbalance, tachycardia, palpitations, chest tightness, and even gastrointestinal bloating may occur. There are also symptoms such as difficulty swallowing and difficulty in pronunciation.

Cervical spondylosis is a common orthopedic disease, so you should see an orthopedic doctor for cervical spondylosis. The symptoms of cervical spondylosis are complex and varied, such as dizziness, headache, limb numbness, limited movement, local muscle stiffness, etc.

There are many ways to treat cervical spondylosis, such as massage, traction, minimally invasive therapy, etc. Regarding the question of which department to go to for cervical spondylosis, experts told us that cervical spondylosis should be treated by an orthopedic doctor.

In addition, the department where cervical spondylosis is treated should also take into account the patient's actual condition. For example, cervical spondylosis related to rheumatism should be treated by a rheumatoid department.

If the dizziness caused by cervical spondylosis is very obvious, you can go to the neurology department for treatment first to improve the phenomenon of insufficient blood supply to the cerebral arteries. However, it is still not clear whether you can cure the cervical spondylosis.

Understanding the symptoms of cervical spondylosis will also help everyone understand which department to go to for cervical spondylosis. The clinical manifestations of cervical spondylosis are relatively complex. Cervical spondylosis is often manifested as dizziness, headache, arm pain, heaviness in the shoulders and back, muscle stiffness, upper limb weakness, the feeling of falling without holding objects in the hands, limited head and neck movement, rotating the head and neck left and right when closing the eyes, causing migraine or dizziness. Some people may fall, have a stiff and hard neck, fever and sweating on one side of the face, and some patients have stiff lower limbs that seem to be out of control, or soft lower limbs, like walking on cotton. A small number of patients also experience incontinence, sexual dysfunction, and even quadriplegia.