Clinically, if patients suffer from old injuries of muscles and muscle groups in the cervical spine, stiff neck or cervical spondylosis, especially cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, acupuncture can be used for treatment. Because acupuncture treatment can accelerate the blood circulation in cervical vertebra, promote the metabolism in cervical vertebra muscle, improve local microcirculation, dredge blocked meridians, accelerate the excretion of acidic substances, and obviously relieve clinical symptoms.
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In addition, in order to further improve the clinical efficacy, acupuncture can be combined with physical therapy, baking electricity, fumigation and washing with traditional Chinese medicine, or patients can be instructed to take oral blood-activating drugs, which can obviously relieve clinical symptoms.
Acupuncture has a positive effect on cervical spondylosis. With the change of lifestyle, computers and mobile phones are widely used, especially some office workers and even some students have begun to have cervical spondylosis. However, acupuncture treatment of cervical spondylosis needs to be classified, because in fact, the concept of cervical spondylosis is very broad, and all muscle, nerve and blood vessel problems related to cervical spondylosis belong to cervical spondylosis.
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Acupuncture is effective for muscle and fascia injuries, such as scraping and cupping, which can relieve local muscle and fascia tension. Acupuncture and moxibustion, and acupoint injection of mecobalamin and cobalamin adenosine, which are commonly used nutritional nerve drugs, also play a role in nourishing nerves and have a good therapeutic effect on cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. If the patient is mainly suffering from shoulder pain and numbness, this is a good indication. For cervical spondylosis, dizziness, palpitation and other visceral discomfort, epigastric discomfort, cervical spondylotic myelopathy, patients show weakness of both lower limbs. Acupuncture can also alleviate the symptoms of this kind of cervical spondylosis, but the treatment effect is not good.
Acupuncture is a very important means to treat cervical spondylosis. There are many reasons and types of cervical spondylosis, mainly due to long-term fatigue or strain, trauma and other reasons, so that the muscles, bones or intervertebral discs of the neck can not be in the normal position. The most common ones are the pain and stiffness of the neck, muscle hyperplasia and swelling, dizziness and numbness in both hands, and even paralysis of the muscles below the neck in severe cases.
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Acupuncture treatment of cervical spondylosis can directly penetrate into the neck muscles. From modern medicine, acupuncture can stimulate all levels of muscles in the neck, better treat muscle strain at fixed points, and relieve abnormal muscle spasm and hyperplasia. Massage therapy is also a very important treatment for cervical spondylosis. Generally, doctors are advised to massage the neck after taking cervical vertebra images (such as X-rays) to have a better understanding of the bone and neck structure to ensure the safety of the neck.