Do I have to have surgery if I have cervical spondylosis?

Most cervical spondylosis does not require surgery**, and only a very small number of cervical spondylosis require surgery**. However, in the later stage of surgery, generally about 4-5 years, there will be a phenomenon of **. Surgery** The cervical spine can only play a soothing role.

From the experience of more than ten years of cervical spondylosis, most cervical spondylosis does not require surgery, and only a very small number of cervical spondylosis require surgery.

What patients themselves can perceive is limb pain, numbness, weakness, difficulty grasping and walking, and even paralysis of one arm or quadriplegia. Cervical spondylosis is very painful, affecting life, and it is not relieved after a month or even two or three months of ** observation, and surgery is also necessary at this time. For patients who are suitable for surgery, the results of surgery are generally good.

The effect of surgery also depends on the choice of timing, once there is a clear indication for surgery, and there are no contraindications to surgery, it is recommended to have surgery as soon as possible, because early surgery has a good effect.

Surgery is not recommended, and it is still possible to get it if you don't pay attention to the change in posture after doing it.

It is recommended to focus on changing your work and rest posture, and you can use a beveled spine mattress to do traction.

It's a physical **.

Corrected for about three hours at a time, it has custom-made pillows that can be used as regular mattresses. Please refer to it.

Try not to use surgery, you can take a combination of Chinese and Western**, such as reduction, traction, etc., and you can also raise your head every day to hang the upper frame on the threshold, and some people are cured by themselves in this way. The risk of cervical spine surgery is relatively large, and the postoperative posterior symptoms are greater.

His cervical spondylosis was more severe and required surgery because of his spinal stenosis. Surgery depends on the degree of spinal stenosis. Generally, you need to go to a provincial hospital**. The cost of surgery depends on the specific situation. The general medical insurance reimbursement itself also needs about 5,000.

Not really. If the condition is not severe enough to require surgery, surgery is generally not required, and traction and massage can be done.

In general, it is not necessary, and those good physical ** can be used, such as using an inclined spine mattress to do cervical traction. This is a physics method called Mackenzie**, please refer to it!

It depends on how far your condition has reached, some people can take the traditional method, but if the traditional method does not have any effect, surgery is required.

It should not be needed, take it easy, and pay attention to the protection of the cervical spine at the same time.

Some severe ones require surgery, and mild ones can be conservative**.

This one doesn't require surgery, it can be **, and it doesn't cost much.

If the nerve roots of the cervical spine are affected, numbness and pain in the upper limbs will occur, but most of this situation can be cured by conservative **, but if it is weak, you should pay attention to whether surgery is needed.

Hello, cervical spondylosis self**: Neck circumference: Limit the excessive movement of the neck and relieve the pressure in the intervertebral space.

Increases the support of the neck. Traction: Can be at home or in the hospital, with low pillows to correct the posture of resting and relaxing.

Purpose: Limit head and neck movement. It is beneficial for the return of protrusions in the intervertebral space.

Massage and massage methods, and the methods of physiotherapy operations should be kneaded.

Do cervical spondylosis have to be surgical?

Cervical spondylosis is a type of cervical spine disease that has been highly prevalent in recent years. There are many methods of cervical spondylosis, and cervical spine surgery is also one of the methods of cervical spondylosis. However, many patients with cervical spondylosis are concerned about the risks of cervical spine surgery.

Here are some of the experts' views on the risks of cervical spine surgery.

Many people are reluctant to choose surgery because of the complex anatomical structure of the neck and the high risk of surgery for cervical spondylosis. In fact, cervical spine surgery has a long history in China, although cervical spine surgery is still a large operation, but the technology has been very mature, for the removal of nerve tissue compression is the only true, effective method, severe compression must be used surgery to save nerve function. The correct selection of surgical indications is a prerequisite for the success of surgery.

Cervical myelopathy, cervical spinal cord is compressed by hypertrophic osteophytes, ligamentum flavum, herniated intervertebral discs, and mild symptoms, non-surgical**, pay attention to observation. If the body is paralyzed below the neck, there are varying degrees of sensory and motor impairment, and the symptoms of spinal cord compression continue to worsen or suddenly worsen, surgery must be performed as soon as possible. Vertebral artery cervical spondylosis, cervical vertigo or cataplexy symptoms are reversed, the location and degree of vertebral artery compression are determined by angiography, and non-surgical treatment is ineffective for a long time, surgery can be considered.

A very small number of cervical radiculopathy non-surgical treatment is ineffective for a long time, and the pinched nerve is accurately located, and surgery can be performed as appropriate**. Sympathetic surgery is less effective, and surgery should be done with caution.

First of all, it is necessary to say that any surgery is risky, but the difference in risk is just the size of the risk, and this is a statistical problem, it is a probability, the so-called success rate is only for the group, for the individual, a specific risk only occurs and does not occur in two situations, each accounting for 50%.

Secondly, cervical spine surgery is definitely riskier than lumbar spine surgery because this site is the cervical spinal cord and not the cauda equina nerve. However, in regular large hospitals, cervical spine surgery is already a routine operation and is not a high-risk operation. Actually, you also have to look at this problem from a different angle:

If the success rate of a procedure is very low, will there be so many hospitals that perform this type of surgery?

Actually, having said all that, I think there is only one criterion for whether surgery is done or not: whether it needs to be done or not. If you don't need to do it, no matter how low the risk is, you don't have to do it.

If you have reached the time when you have to do it, you can no longer tolerate the low quality of life, then, you should do it or do it, after all, the so-called risk is just a probability, it is something that may happen in the future, why bother to give up the most correct choice at this stage for an uncertain factor in the future.

In your case, minimally invasive cervical surgery refers to transforaminal disc removal.

Suggestions: For minimally invasive cervical spondylosis, there are still many advantages for patients, such as: less trauma, less bleeding, and the effect is still very ideal.

According to your description, it may be that you have cervical spondylosis, and it is recommended to be conservative**, and consider surgery after the effect is not good. Cervical spine surgery is risky.

There is definitely a high level of danger! It is advisable to be cautious, do not undergo surgery lightly, and if feasible, it is recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine**.

1. For those patients who have limb weakness, numbness and pain in their limbs, cannot walk and cannot walk, cannot make fists with their hands, and even are affected by eating, if you do not have surgery, is there any other way? In conditions where spinal cord function is significantly impaired, no conservative approach is feasible. Do you have to wait until you can't walk and have incontinence before you have surgery?

Because it is not effective at this time**, many patients will suddenly develop symptoms such as quadriplegia and incontinence.

The actual situation is that once the spinal cord or nerve root function is obviously damaged, the limbs are weakened, muscle atrophy and other conditions, and the effect is not good. This is because the recovery of nerve function is not the same as the recovery of other organ functions. Once the nerve function is damaged, the recovery is very slow and sometimes irreversible, that is, even after surgery, sometimes it cannot be recovered.

Therefore, for those patients who have an indication for surgery, it is better to follow the doctor's advice and operate if surgery is needed.

2. Is surgery really paralyzed?

Surgery for cervical spondylosis, like many other surgical modalities, has been developed over the decades and is a well-established method. Not every patient is paralyzed as soon as they have surgery. In some tertiary hospitals, especially those with spine specialists, there are doctors who have been specially trained in spine surgery, and paralysis generally does not occur.

Because of the complexity of disease and medical treatment, the following is only used as a reference, not as a **opinion, please be cautious!

1- Cervical spondylosis progresses to obvious spinal cord, nerve root, and vertebral artery damage, and undergoes conservative **no effect surgery**. How to understand it specifically, cervical spondylosis is so severe that it is impossible to alleviate obvious limb weakness, unsteady walking, inability to hold things steadily, and paralysis through conservative **.

Paralysis manifestations, such as obvious muscle atrophy of the upper limbs, significant decrease in muscle strength, numbness, pain, uncontrollable vertigo, headache, amblyopia, blindness, diplopia or cataplexy that cannot be controlled by drugs or other conservative **, etc., emphasize that conservative ** is ineffective.

2- The original cervical spondylosis has sudden and obvious aggravation of symptoms under the action of trauma.

3- With cervical disc herniation, non-surgical** ineffective.

4- If there is obvious instability in a certain segment of the cervical spine, obvious neck pain, and it is ineffective after normative non-surgery**, even if there is no limb sensation (numbness) and movement disorders (paralysis), surgery should be considered. (The stability of the segment can be determined by the hyperextension and hypercurvature x-rays of the cervical spine).

Of course, there are many factors to consider in cervical spine surgery, and the most important thing in surgery is the patient's underlying condition, age, blood pressure, diabetes, or cardiac insufficiency, etc., and the pros and cons must be weighed if the underlying conditions are too poor.