What is the treatment of cervical spondylosis?

The treatment of cervical spondylosis is nothing more than conservative treatment and surgical treatment. Most cervical spondylosis can be relieved through conservative treatment. For example, cervical spondylosis and cervical radiculopathy can be treated with cervical hot compress, physical therapy, electrotherapy, local acupuncture, or ultrasound-guided pulsed radiofrequency of the posterior branch of the spinal nerve. Cervical spondylosis of the spinal cord must avoid cervical traction and massage, which can easily lead to cervical spinal cord injury and paralysis. Local hot compress and oral nerve nutrition drugs can be used for local hot compress. If the lower limbs are weak, numb, and muscle atrophy, and conservative treatment is ineffective, surgical treatment is required.

Treatment of cervical spondylosis

Cervical spondylosis is mainly caused by degenerative lesions of the cervical spine, acute and chronic injuries, and other reasons. When nerves and blood vessels are stimulated, symptoms such as neck and shoulder pain, limb numbness and weakness, dizziness and nausea will occur. For the treatment of cervical spondylosis, you must first develop a good posture and avoid sitting with your head down for a long time. If there are no symptoms, no special treatment is required. When symptoms such as pain, numbness and weakness occur, anti-inflammatory analgesics, nerve nutrition drugs, and cartilage nutrition drugs can be used to improve the symptoms. Or combined with hot compress physical therapy, cervical traction, functional exercise and other methods of treatment, can play a positive role in improving symptoms. If severe symptoms of neurovascular compression occur and conservative treatment is not effective, surgical treatment can also be performed.

What should the elderly pay attention to with cervical spondylosis?

With the increase of age, osteoporosis, cervical degenerative hyperplasia, cervical disc herniation, the elderly are prone to cervical spondylosis. If there are no radiating symptoms of numbness in the limbs, the degree of cervical spondylosis is not serious. By reducing the bowing of the head, moderate neck flexion and extension functional exercises, hot compresses and massage therapy, blood circulation can be promoted, nutrition can be increased, calcium can be supplemented, moderate exercise can be performed, calcium absorption can be promoted, and neck discomfort symptoms can be relieved. If there are radiating symptoms of numbness and discomfort in the limbs. You need to go to the hospital's spine surgery department to check the cervical spine magnetic resonance imaging to understand whether the spinal nerves are compressed, and then determine the next treatment plan.