Cervical spondylosis is divided into seven categories, which one are you?

In recent years, the incidence of cervical spondylosis is higher. It is generally believed that cervical spondylosis is more common in middle-aged and elderly people. The incidence of cervical spondylosis ranges from 3.8% to 17.6%, and is increasing year by year.

With the acceleration of life rhythm and the gradual popularization of electronic products, people's lifestyle has changed greatly, such as long-term bowing to work, sedentary, staying up late, long-term use of computers and mobile phones, and so on. It has become the daily bad habits of most people nowadays. This kind of bad posture and posture will lead to stiffness and soreness of the neck muscles and increase the burden of the cervical spine. Serious symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, pain and numbness of both upper limbs can be caused, and then the occurrence of cervical spondylosis can be triggered.

Cervical type——Neck soreness, pain, stiffness, or shoulder discomfort, often in the morning when getting up, tired, cold aggravated, improved after hot compress, massage, and often fall asleep, the lightest type, timely treatment can achieve satisfactory results.

Nerve root type——The symptoms were pain and numbness in neck, shoulder, upper arm, forearm and finger. The pain is intense and radioactive. Serious cases can cause back ache, swelling, pain and discomfort, and muscle weakness of upper limbs.

Vertebral artery type——It is characterized by dizziness, dizziness, drowsiness all day, tinnitus, deafness, hearing loss, visual impairment and memory loss. When twisting the neck (for example, when crossing the road), dizziness symptoms worsen, and even suddenly fall, unconscious.

Spinal cord type——Because the cervical vertebra bone hyperplasia, the intervertebral disc protrusion oppresses the spinal cord, causes the limb nerve function to display the disorder, but displays walks sways, looks like the drunken man, easy to fall, the hand and foot is clumsy, the lower limb is tightened, even appears the urine and urine difficulty, the lower limb paralysis, is one kind of cervical spondylosis particularly serious.

sympathetic CS——It is characterized by headache, dizziness, or migraine, post-pillow headache, irritability, panic, cardiothoracic pain, elevated blood pressure, cold limbs, sweating or hypohidrosis, or tinnitus or foreign body sensation in pharynx.

In addition, there are mixed type and esophageal compression type.

First, we should avoid long-term suspension of cases. At present, it is generally acknowledged that workers who keep their head down for a long time, stay in front of the desk for a long time and over-tilt of the neck are more likely to suffer from cervical spondylosis. Therefore, the time and intensity of working in front of the desk should be reduced after the illness. Generally, within 1-2 hours of working in front of the desk, cervical health exercises can not only exercise cervical muscle groups, but also prevent the long time of bowing over the desk. It is an effective way to prevent neck pain.

Secondly, exercise the neck muscles in time. Experts believe that cervical muscle strength is an important factor in maintaining cervical stability and is closely related to the symptoms of cervical pain. Therefore, it is concluded that maintaining a good level of muscle strength can reduce the occurrence of cervical pain. A simple way to exercise the neck muscles is to cross your hands behind the head and neck, lift the head and neck upward and backward, and stretch the head and neck backward (keep the cervical vertebra relatively static as far as possible, do the muscle contraction training behind the neck). One relaxation, repeated 20 times a day, three times a day, adhere to a period of time can be effective. Active exercise can prevent and treat cervical spondylosis.

Third, the rational use of pillows. The correct way for us to use pillows is to choose a long round pillow with the same height as my fist and place it in the posterior and middle part of the cervical spine, not on the head. The correct use of pillows has a good preventive effect on cervical spondylosis and can promote the early recovery of patients with cervical spondylosis.

Fourth, cold prevention and warmth preservation. Most of the causes of cervical spondylosis are cervical spine strain, coupled with cold or cold after the occurrence of cervical spondylosis, so we should keep warm and cold in peacetime.

Fifth, do neck massage properly. When cervical pain occurs, we should go to the hospital to see a doctor, exclude other diseases besides cervical spondylosis, and massage the cervical spine in the hospital to relax muscle spasm, improve blood circulation and relieve symptoms of cervical fatigue.