Although I was an apprentice of Chinese medicine, I was later localized. As for indicators and physical therapy, I don't know whether it is Chinese medicine or western medicine.
Don't treat cervical spondylosis indiscriminately? Xu? fly
With the increase of people's work pressure and unhealthy lifestyles such as sitting more and moving less, cervical spondylosis, which was originally a degenerative disease of the elderly, has increasingly become a social concern. Since it is popular, people are naturally familiar with it, but not being unfamiliar does not mean that they really understand it.
For cervical spondylosis, a common disease, some people may disagree and think it is a minor problem. But some people will attach great importance to it, watch it today and tomorrow, or take a lot of medicine, or do massage and physical therapy everywhere with street advertisements, and then blindly choose surgery. The survey shows that about 50% of patients with cervical spondylosis who come to see a doctor have problems such as drug abuse, random massage and unreasonable operation. Therefore, the treatment of cervical spondylosis, there are several points to understand:
Medicine can't cure cervical spondylosis.
Aunt Zhang, 57, saw a street advertisement promoting that a medicine for treating cervical spondylosis had a remarkable effect of eliminating bone spurs, and thought that her cervical spondylosis for many years could be cured this time. So she spent more than 300 yuan, bought two courses of medicine and stopped the original physical therapy. Who knows, the medicine has not been eaten half, the original neck and shoulder pain has not subsided, and there are symptoms such as numbness of hands and difficulty in moving. When I arrived at the hospital, I found that my illness was not light, but aggravated.
At present, there is no drug that can eliminate bone spur and can't cure cervical spondylosis radically. All drugs, whether taken orally or externally, can only play an auxiliary therapeutic role. At the same time of medication, massage, traction, refractory treatment (direct current, ultrasound, diathermy, magnetic therapy, low-frequency pulse, iontophoresis of traditional Chinese medicine), acupuncture and other comprehensive treatments are essential. Aunt Zhang, who relies solely on drugs to treat cervical spondylosis, can only spend money in vain and even delay her illness. In addition, drugs have certain side effects, which are easy to cause liver and kidney damage, stimulate the stomach and lead to leukopenia. Others eat painkillers indiscriminately for neck and shoulder pain, which often covers up the condition and delays the condition and treatment.
Neck and shoulder pain can not be rubbed.
There are still many patients whose condition is aggravated by random massage. After being diagnosed with neck pain, numbness of left hand and weakness of lower limbs, Lao Li thought that massage should be beneficial to neck rehabilitation, so he went to a private clinic for "massage therapy". At first, I felt that the symptoms were obviously aggravated, and it didn't take long for me to develop into quadriplegia and incontinence. Later, although the spinal cord compression was relieved after adequate decompression surgery, I still had a serious disability.
Cervical spondylosis is mainly divided into cervical type, hairstyle type, spinal cord type and vertebral artery type, and different types of treatment are different. Neurocervical spondylosis caused by nerve root edema like Lao Li must not be massaged, massaged or pulled during acute attack, otherwise it will add fragrance to nerve root edema and aggravate the condition. Even if it is suitable for massage therapy, it should be carried out in professional medical institutions, because only professional doctors can grasp the scale of kneading without side effects.
Mainstream of minimally invasive cervical spine surgery
For patients with cervical spondylosis, the choice of surgery has clear indications, but what mortals are worried about is that there is a trend of flooding of surgical treatment at present, and many outpatients come to see a doctor because of the "sequelae" after surgery. The treatment of cervical spondylosis can be divided into non-surgical treatment and surgical treatment. Non-surgical treatment can alleviate the pain of most patients. Surgical treatment is only suitable for a few severe patients who are ineffective in non-surgical treatment. Specifically, for patients with mild symptoms of cervical spondylosis, only neck and shoulder discomfort or mild mobility disorder, they can generally improve their symptoms by taking proper rest and changing their bad living and working habits. For patients with severe neck and shoulder pain, conservative treatment such as neck immobilization or traction can be performed. Surgical treatment should be chosen for those with numbness and weakness of hands, difficulty in twisting, difficulty in taking care of themselves, and obvious compression of spinal nerve roots found by Hertz vibration examination. It also needs to be clear that for cervical spondylotic myelopathy caused by vertebral brain compression, because this compression belongs to active compression and the decompression effect of vertebral artery is not good, surgical treatment is generally not recommended. ? 2009.3 The world of the elderly /55