With the rapid pace of society now, more and more low-headed people and sedentary people suffer from cervical spondylosis,
Cervical spondylosis, also known as cervical spondylosis, is a general term for cervical osteoarthritis, hypertrophic cervical spondylitis, cervical nerve root syndrome, cervical disc prolapse, and is a disease based on degenerative pathological changes.
What are the signs of cervical spondylosis?
1. Headache, dizziness:
Cervical spondylosis affects the muscles of the neck, causing persistent spasmodic contractions of the neck muscles, resulting in blood circulation disorders of the muscles and causing cervical spondylosis headaches
Headache caused by cervical spine lesions that directly stimulate, compress or pull sensitive tissues of the head;
Lesion irritation, compression or injury to the first, second and third pairs of cervical nerves causing headaches, especially the occipital area;
Lesions can stimulate or compress the sympathetic plexus around the vertebral arteries or other sympathetic nerves in the neck, causing a cervical spondylosis headache due to throsotropic disorders in the vertebral-basal arterial system or vessels of the internal and external intracranial arteries;
In patients with vertebral arterial cervical spondylosis, headaches occur due to the direct involvement of the vertebral arteries, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the vertebral-basal artery system.
2. Decreased vision:
The cause of cervical spondylosis affecting vision may be related to ischemic lesions of the visual center of the occipital lobe of the brain caused by cervical spondylosis due to autonomic disorders and insufficient blood supply to the vertebral-basal arteries.
3. Hexadecial symptoms: sensorimotor disorders that occur in the upper and lower limbs on the same side, such as swelling of the right arm, and pain in the right waist and right lower limbs and muscle tremors.
4. Extremity symptoms: neurological disorders that occur in the limbs, and some are manifested as simple sensory disorders (such as numbness in the little toes of the feet and the ulnar side of the hands); There are people with sensory and movement disorders in the limbs in the short term, such as a patient who has numbness in the 4 or 5 fingers of the left hand after a long period of long-term low-term work, anesthesia of the 4 or 5 fingers of the right hand on the third day, and numbness, weakness, difficulty in lifting the legs, and unstable gait on the fourth and fifth days.
5. Chest pain:
Presents with a slow onset of stubborn unilateral pectoralis major and breast pain, with pectoralis major tenderness on examination. This is related to cervical 6 and cervical 7 nerve roots being compressed by cervical vertebrae.
6. Lower limb symptoms: neuromuscular dysfunction of one or both lower limbs. Presents with simple lower extremity movement disorders (e.g., weakness, shakiness, weakness in the legs, or easy falls); There are those who present with simple lower extremity sensory impairment (eg, bipedal paresthesias, numbness in both lower extremities); There are also people with sensory and motor dysfunction at the same time.
What are the good habits for protecting the cervical spine every day?
Keep your neck warm: Avoid air conditioning blowing directly on your neck for a long time to prevent your neck from getting cold, because cold and damp can easily aggravate the symptoms of cervical spondylosis.
Pay attention to sitting posture: due to the working position, long time bowing, etc., the neck muscles are in a state of uncoordinated force, the ligaments and muscles in the back of the neck are pulled, the leading edges of the vertebral body wear and tear each other and increase, and the cervical intervertebral discs appear aging and chronic strain, so it is necessary to pay attention to correcting poor posture, and work for 1-2 hours to rest or change posture.
Moderate exercise and appropriate traction: swimming, badminton and other sports can be carried out, appropriate traction is also a recognized means of treating cervical spondylosis, hands ten fingers crossed together, lifted to the top of the head to the pillow neck, head back, hands gradually force to the direction of the top of the head for 5-10 seconds, continuous 3-4 times can play a role in relieving the pressure of the intervertebral space.
Avoid blind massage: For patients who have already developed cervical osteoporosis, osteoporosis, cervical disc herniation and degeneration, random manual massage may cause aggravation of symptoms, and should be examined in the hospital for formal treatment.
How to treat the cervical spine with traditional Chinese medicine
For cervical spondylosis caused by the external sensation of wind chill, kudzu soup can be used.
Cervical spondylosis caused by blood stasis block, with body pain to add and subtract stasis soup.
Cervical spondylosis caused by wind chill and wet paralysis can be added or subtracted by Jiuwei Qiang huo soup.
Cervical spondylosis caused by internal movement of liver wind can be added or subtracted by gastrodia hook vine drink. In addition, some common proprietary Chinese medicines such as neck rejuvenation granules, Ermiao pills, small active pills, etc. have a relatively good adjuvant treatment effect.
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