Health tips: as people spend more and more time in front of the computer, there are also some drivers, middle-aged and elderly people, which makes more and more people suffering from cervical spondylosis. Therefore, the treatment of cervical spondylosis is also concerned.
Understanding the symptoms and characteristics of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy can deepen people's understanding of this type of cervical spondylosis. In many types of cervical spondylosis, cervical spondylotic radiculopathy is relatively common. The causes of this type of cervical spondylosis are various, which is harmful to human body.
As a type of cervical spondylosis with the highest incidence rate among middle-aged and old people, cervical spondylosis of nerve root has attracted wide attention.
So what are the specific characteristics of the symptoms of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, do you know?
The symptoms of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy are: pain or numbness in the neck and occipital region or neck and shoulder, persistent or paroxysmal, radiating to the upper limbs and fingers, accompanied by acupuncture like or electric tingling sensation. When the neck moves or coughs, sneezes or forces slightly, the pain and tingling sensation can be aggravated; At the same time, there can also be muscle atrophy of the upper limbs, heavy hair, soreness and weakness, and inflexible movements. At night, the neck, shoulder and upper limbs may have more severe pain and can't sleep over and over.
One of the most serious diseases affecting people's health is cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. In the acute stage, the activity of head and neck can cause neck, shoulder, arm pain, or upper limb radiation pain, often accompanied by numbness of fingers, severe pain at night, affecting rest. In order to prevent cervical touch from aggravating the symptoms of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, a few patients protected the affected part with hands.
For patients with acute disease, it is necessary to check whether it is cervical disc herniation. The patient has chronic soreness and numbness in the upper shoulder and neck. In addition, there are symptoms of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, such as weakness of upper limb muscle strength and muscle atrophy. Some patients' limbs may be swollen and their skin may be dark red or pale white. Wind cold and strain can be the inducement of the disease, and some patients have no obvious inducement and come on gradually.
Orthopedic experts said that the weakening of upper limb muscle strength is the symptom of cervical spondylotic radiculopathy caused by motor nerve damage of human body. It shows that patients are hard to hold objects, and some patients are easy to fall off when holding objects.
The skeletal muscle of the limb is dominated by more than two nerves. The single nerve injury is characterized by mild muscle strength weakening. The main nerve root involvement may cause obvious motor dysfunction. Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy patients often have symptoms of cervical hair plate. When the cervical nerve root is stimulated, the muscle tension of neck and shoulder can be increased or spasmodic reflexively. In the acute stage, the examination can show that the patient's back neck one or both sides of the swing muscle tension, local tenderness.
We all have a good understanding of cervical spondylosis and hope that we can avoid the occurrence of cervical spondylosis.