Symptoms are varied, and there are five common ones.
1, stiff neck, stiff pain, limited neck movement, heavy shoulders and back, hard muscles;
2, upper limb weakness, finger numbness, limb skin feeling decreased, grip strength sometimes unconsciously decreased;
3. Some patients will also have lower limbs that do not listen to the command, or the lower limbs are soft;
4. Some patients have abnormal feelings such as headache, dizziness, decreased vision, tinnitus and nausea;
5. A few serious patients will have uncontrollable urination and even quadriplegia.
However, not all manifestations will be shown in every patient, and often only some symptoms appear. Most patients have mild symptoms and a long course of disease. Cervical spondylosis is mostly acquired disease, which is a common disease in middle-aged and elderly people over 40 years old. The incidence tends to be younger.
1, denaturation
With the increase of age, the degeneration of cervical intervertebral disc and the whole cervical vertebra and other parts of cervical vertebra are the main causes of cervical spondylosis.
2. Chronic strain
Improper sitting and lying posture, improper working posture. For example, reading newspapers on buses and subways, leaning on chairs and sofas to answer the phone or watching TV and reading books; Or when you are working at your desk, your head is too close to the desktop, lying on the bed watching computer reading. Or work at a desk for a long time or keep a fixed posture for a long time at work, which is easy to cause cervical strain, straighten normal physiological flexion, and cause cervical loosening and hyperplasia. , thus stimulating peripheral nerves or blood vessels, causing cervical pain.
3. Cold neck
Cold and humidity make the neck muscles spasm and stiff, and the room temperature that is too low for a long time will be overwhelming.
1. Preventing cervical spine injury
Cervical trauma is the main cause of cervical spondylosis in middle-aged people. Pay attention to the protection of the Ministry when taking a bus or activities, and don't doze off when taking a bus. Avoid sharp turns, sudden braking or sudden neck rotation, resulting in cervical spine injury. Avoid head and neck load and excessive fatigue.
2. Pay attention to the combination of static and dynamic.
Long-term desk workers, every work 1 hour, do some exercise to exercise limbs and cervical vertebrae, eliminate fatigue of neck muscles and ligaments, and prevent strain. It is best to do 1 ~ 2 head and neck exercises every day to strengthen neck muscle exercise. For example, "look around" to protect the cervical spine, that is, the neck is alternately moved in the opposite direction from left to right, so that the neck can take a nap and the cervical spine can do "class exercises".
You can also put your hands behind your head and repeat it two or three times. This simple action can relax the fatigue of the neck muscles. You can also do head gymnastics, that is, bend, tilt and rotate your head and neck. This can not only relieve fatigue, but also exercise neck muscles and enhance toughness, which is conducive to enhancing the stability of cervical spine.
3. Keep warm to prevent colds.
Avoid cold and wet neck injury, and do not use electric fans or air conditioners to blow directly. Using a hot water bag and taking a hot bath is a good way to protect the cervical spine. Washing your neck with hot water for a long time can relax your neck muscles.
4. Maintain the correct posture of the head and neck.
It is not advisable to tilt your head and shrug your shoulders. When reading a book and operating a computer, you should look at it positively and keep your spine upright. It is not advisable to read or watch TV while lying down.
Choose the right pillow
Too high or too low pillow is not conducive to rest and health, and it is also an important inducing factor of cervical spondylosis. The high pillow will bend the head forward, increase the stress of the lower cervical vertebra, and may accelerate the degeneration of the cervical vertebra. "Rest easy is not necessarily worry-free", so we should avoid the bad habit of rest easy in life.
If you are used to lying on your back, the height of the pillow is about 5 cm (the height after compression); I am used to lying on my side, and my height is about 10 cm.
In supine position, the lower edge of the pillow is best padded on the upper edge of the scapula, and it is not advisable to make the neck empty. Pillow is the main tool to maintain the normal position of head and neck. It's better to pillow the neck than the pillow.
The best pillow should be able to support the physiological curve of the cervical spine and keep it straight.
The pillow should be elastic, and the pillow core should be kapok, hollow high-elastic cotton or grain skin, with soft texture and good air permeability, especially in the middle and low-end ingot shape. This shape can maintain the physiological curvature of the cervical spine by using the concave part in the middle, and can also play a role in relatively braking and fixing the head and neck, which can reduce the abnormal activities of the head and neck during sleep.
6. Do more micro-exercises of the word "meter"
The method is to repeatedly write the word "meter" with the head as the "pen" in the following order: ① Write a horizontal line first, draw a horizontal line from left to right as far as possible, and return the head to the correct position; ② Write another vertical line, stretch the head and neck forward and upward as far as possible, and draw a vertical line from top to bottom. Head-to-head position: ③ Stretch the head and neck to the left as far as possible at an angle of 45 degrees, and write the upper left point; (4) Head back to the right, write the upper right point of the word in the same way, head back to the right, head and neck as far as possible to the right, draw a stroke to the left and down, head and neck back to the right (5) Head as far as possible to the left and draw a stroke to the right. Restore the head and neck position. 6, the movement should be gentle, avoid overexertion, do 1 ~ 2 times a day, with the head, forehead and shoulders feeling light and comfortable.
7. Prevent alcoholism
Alcohol can affect the deposition of calcium on bones, which makes people prone to osteoporosis and osteomalacia and accelerates the degeneration of cervical vertebrae.
8. Early detection and early treatment
In addition to paying attention to daily health care and putting an end to bad posture, it is also necessary to find and thoroughly treat the soft tissue strain of young people with neck and shoulder as soon as possible to prevent it from developing into cervical spondylosis. Therefore, once you feel neck and back pain for a long time, you should go to the hospital for treatment.