Different parts of their body age differently for each person. Some people develop gray hair at a young age. Some people have to wear glasses for reading at a young age.
Similarly, some people’s neck bones wear out in middle age. These changes affect the bones and joints between bones. Why these changes occur is not yet known. It is not said that the disease is caused by carrying too much weight on the head. Although the number of sufferers is somewhat high, most of them are not severe in nature.
symptoms
The nature of the disease is normal if only the bones and the tendons connecting them are affected. Twisting the neck a little too much can cause pain in the neck. The muscles at the back of the neck are stiff. If you use unsuitable pillows at night, the pain will be more noticeable when you wake up in the morning. The pain may last for days or weeks and then decrease or increase. These changes in bones and muscle fibers can put pressure on nerves in the arm, spinal cord, and blood vessels that go to the back of the brain in some people.
Pain from neck due to increased pressure on arm nerves. The pain can quickly spread to the forearm and fingers. Sometimes the pain occurs in the middle of the neck in a specific place at the back of the neck. Pain on one side of the chest at the front may occasionally occur. The pain is aggravated by moving the neck in several positions and using inappropriate pillows.
If you work with your hands and neck in the same position for a long time, the pain will increase. If you keep your neck in the same position, you will feel numbness in your hands, fingers or pins and needles. Some people feel it when they wake up in the morning or after a facial or after writing continuously for a few minutes. Some people also have pain if they hold their neck in a certain position. Numbness will also disappear.
Traveling in jeeps, buses, two-wheelers and three-wheelers on rough roads can increase the pain. Pressure on the nerves can cause weakness in the use of joints such as the shoulder, elbow, wrist, and holding objects. When the spinal cord or the nerves that go to it put pressure on the blood vessels, the legs become stiff and tired. In some people, excessive neck movements can affect the blood flow to an area of the brain.
A librarian who often takes a book or file from the top of a shelf, a housewife who dries clothes at a high height, a car driver who looks back too much while reversing the car will feel dizzy, and sometimes even memory may fail for a few seconds.
This is a very serious condition and it is very important to take the patient to the hospital immediately even if he recovers in a few minutes. If a diabetic patient does not seek proper treatment, if he is suffering from cervical spondylosis, he will experience pain, numbness, dizziness, and fatigue.
Dizziness increases if the fat content in the blood increases. It is not uncommon for the condition to be seen in the middle-aged and elderly. Some patients may hear a soft sound when the neck is turned, and this should not be feared. A heavy blow to the neck and rapid and excessive twisting of the neck may result in paralysis or numbness in the arms and legs.
Examination and treatment
This disease can be easily diagnosed by X-ray. CT scan, MRI It is only through such tests that the true extent, completeness and severity of cervical spondylosis can be known.
Medicine
As with appendicitis and tonsillitis, no part of the disease can be surgically removed to prevent future disease. Because usually this disease is due to age. But the symptoms of this disease can definitely be cured. Most people can recover with continued medical care without surgery. In case of severe neck pain or lying in bed by wearing a neck brace, the pain can be reduced by resting the neck.
Pain relievers, anti-inflammatory drugs, and safe sleeping pills can be used as needed.
Heat or short wave diathermy can reduce pain depending on the area of pain. A Traxon procedure is necessary for some people when the nerves are compressed. Traxon can be administered with the patient lying in bed.
There are some devices that can be placed over the shoulders to provide traction to the neck. They allow the patient to sit or walk while Traxon is in place. If the neck strap or Traxon method does not relieve the patient’s pain, it means that the patient is not using them correctly or that the particular treatment method is not suitable for that patient.
Pain-free neck exercises can be done. 10-20 times at a time can be done several times a day. Do not practice when the pain is in the neck. Do not do so much or too often that it causes pain. The other person should not forcibly turn the patient’s neck. It can also cause paralysis or even death. Each patient can use whichever type of pillow best relieves their pain.
There are no specific rules for it, and good pillows are very useful for them. Office workers, casual workers and housewives should change their work patterns to suit them.
Special tests
* If persistent neurological symptoms such as numbness, fatigue, dizziness are present, special examination is necessary. Chief among them is MRI. is the test. which are thereby detected.
* Treatment of patients with spondylosis in neck bones have other diseases like Tuberculosis.
* Is the pressure on the spinal cord and nerves sufficient for surgery?
* What causes this pressure?
* How much pressure is there?
* How many places are there pressure?
* Detection of any changes in the cord such as lack of blood flow.
Surgical procedure
A decision that requires surgery should not be delayed until symptoms become severe. If the spinal cord and nerves are more than partially damaged, it is difficult to recover completely. If medication does not help, immediate surgery is necessary. If surgery is done in the advanced stage of the disease, the results will be limited.
There is no risk involved in this surgical procedure as modern methods are used in the areas of anesthesia, blood transfusion, surgery etc. If there is pressure on vital areas, the pressure is reduced after the operation and the symptoms of the disease
disappear.
Depending on the nature and severity of the pressure, the surgical procedures vary. Success is assured if the correct surgical technique is chosen for the particular patient and care is taken, and a neck brace may be worn for a few days or weeks after surgery. Movements in the neck should not be too fast or painful to the neck.