How can patients with cervical spondylosis be cared for?

Cervical spondylosis is a slowly progressive degenerative disease of the cervical spine. The disease is more common in middle-aged and elderly people, especially teachers, writers, accountants, surgeons, and sewing workers who have been working at desks for a long time.

Cervical spondylosis develops slowly and has a long course of disease, causing great pain to patients, affecting daily work, study and life, and in severe cases, they can lose their ability to work and live. The symptoms of cervical spondylosis are very complex, such as neck, shoulder and back pain caused by nerve root compression, numbness and soreness of the upper limbs, and muscle atrophy; Symptoms of cerebral insufficiency such as dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, deafness, and blurred vision caused by compression of intervertebral arteries. In recent years, it has been found that cervical spondylosis can also cause urinary disorders, paralysis, blindness, abnormal blood pressure, similar to coronary heart disease, neurodermatitis, colitis, ulcer disease, gastric bleeding, intestinal dysfunction, neurosis, intractable headache, urinary incontinence, frozen shoulder, etc.

Therefore, when suffering from similar symptoms, after many aspects** and the effect is not obvious, do not forget to go to the hospital to check the cervical spine.

At present, there are two main methods of cervical spondylosis: surgical and non-surgical. Most cervical spondylosis can be non-surgical**, such as cervical traction, manual massage, and medical gymnastics. The following is an introduction to a simple set of medical gymnastics for patients with cervical spondylosis, which can help improve blood circulation in the neck, promote the resolution of inflammation, relieve muscle spasms, reduce pain, and prevent muscle atrophy.

1.Left and right rotation": take a standing or sitting position, cross your hands on your hips, rotate your head to the left and right in turns, the action should be slow, the amplitude should be large, pause for 3 5 seconds whenever the rotation reaches the maximum, rotate left and right 15 20 times, and stop rotating when you are dizzy and palpitated.

2.Forward flexion and extension: Accompany deep breathing, exhale with the neck bent forward, and the lower jaw close to the upper edge of the sternal stem; Inhale with your neck stretched to the maximum and repeat 10 times.

3. Side extension: the head is extended to the left when inhaling, and the head is restored when exhaling. Then extend your head to the right as you inhale and return your head as you exhale, repeating 10 times.

4. Massage the neck: Massage the neck 20 30 times with both hands, then press the "Feng Chi acupoint", and then use the thumbs of both hands to massage the first palm up and down 30 60 times.

The above medical gymnastics should be done 1 2 times a day. Patients with cervical spondylosis must follow the rules when performing medical gymnastics, and must not make irregular movements of the head and neck.

There are many ways to do this, for example, I swim during the day is a good way. At night, the use of more spine mattresses is the head of the mattress, which is also a good way to traction the cervical spine, this method may not be known by many people, as follows, there are many other ways to use, the Lord himself understands: