What are the risks of cervical spondylosis surgery?

What are the risks of cervical spondylosis surgery?

1. For patients with hyperplasia, if the patient's symptoms are more obvious, such as neck pain, dizziness, numbness, palpitations, and unsteady walking, if CT or MRI examination shows severe hyperplasia and obvious intervertebral disc herniation, this situation requires active surgery in the orthopedic department of a regular hospital. Of course, the risk of surgery is still relatively large. The biggest risk is that the spinal nerves will be stimulated during the operation, causing limb numbness or paralysis, which is the most common complication in clinical practice.

2. In clinical practice, for patients with very severe cervical spondylosis, such as obvious compression of the spinal nerve roots, numbness, weakness and pain in one or both upper limbs, unsteady walking, a feeling of stepping on cotton, and even abnormal urination and defecation, it is necessary to actively perform surgical treatment.

3. The risk of surgery for cervical spondylosis is very low and the surgery is relatively mature. However, complications may occur during the operation, resulting in nerve damage.

What is the difference between bone hyperplasia and lumbar disc herniation?

1. If the intervertebral disc protrudes backward or to the left or right due to frequent weight-bearing activities, ligament relaxation or other external factors, it may compress the local nerves or affect the local soft tissue edema, which may manifest as uncomfortable symptoms such as low back pain, numbness, etc. This is the essential difference.

2. However, the clinical symptoms may be similar or roughly the same sometimes. If you want to be completely sure, you still need to do a CT scan or MRI to make a diagnosis. Only then can you take appropriate treatment to recover. The difference between lumbar disc herniation and bone hyperplasia lies mainly in the different pathological factors.

3. Lumbar disc herniation is caused by lumbar trauma and chronic strain, and is caused by the protrusion of the intervertebral disc between the lumbar vertebrae. The difference between bone hyperplasia and lumbar disc herniation mainly lies in the different pathological factors.