How to treat ankylosing cervical spondylitis

For patients with ankylosing cervical spondylitis, it is necessary to understand the treatment methods of ankylosing cervical spondylitis. So how to treat ankylosing cervical spondylitis? What are the treatments for ankylosing cervical spondylitis? Next, this article will introduce five treatment methods for ankylosing cervical spondylitis for your reference only. Friends who want to know how to treat ankylosing cervical spondylitis can come and have a look!

1. Take adequate rest

Avoid lack of sleep. Lack of sleep, excessive work stress and maintaining a fixed posture for a long time will lead to excessive tension in the nerves and muscles and intensify the symptoms of cervical spondylosis.

2. Change your pillow habits

The physiological curvature of the cervical spine (abbreviated as cervical curve) is not static. As age increases, the cervical spine will undergo degenerative changes and cervical bone hyperplasia, which will cause the cervical curve to change, and even straighten or hyperextend the cervical curve. In addition, when people have improper posture and bad living habits for a long time, such as working with their heads down for a long time, sleeping with a high pillow, or neck trauma or cold, the physiological curvature of the cervical spine is also prone to change. Changes or disappearance of the cervical curvature often means poor vertebral stability, narrowing of the intervertebral space, smaller intervertebral foramen, vertebral degeneration, nerve compression and chronic injury to the cervical extensor muscles. In addition, the disappearance of the cervical curve can also lead to hypertrophy of the yellow ligament, damage to the cervical ligament, damage to the related muscles beside the vertebral body, etc., which in turn induce cervical spondylosis. At this time, people are likely to experience pain in the head, neck, shoulders and back, or feel numbness and weakness, or even a series of cervical spondylosis symptoms such as incontinence and paralysis.

3. Actively exercise

Especially the training of the neck, shoulders and back muscles. Correct training can strengthen muscle strength, strengthen the normal physiological curvature of the cervical spine, increase the stability of the biomechanical structure of the cervical spine, and at the same time promote blood and lymph circulation, which is beneficial to the recovery of cervical spondylosis.

4. You can use hot compress

It has a certain effect on relieving local neuromuscular tension.

5. Self-exercise therapy

1. Neck exercise: Tilt your head forward ten times, tilt it back ten times, tilt it to the left ten times, and tilt it to the right ten times. Then slowly shake your head, turning left ten times and right ten times.

2. Shake your upper limbs: shake your left arm twenty times, then shake your right arm twenty times.

3. Practice your fingers by grabbing the air; stretch out your arms and flex and extend the five fingers of both hands. You can do this 50 times.

4. Local massage: You can find tender points, nodules or muscle tension near the neck, Dazhui point and Fengchi point, and rub, press, push and pinch these reaction points.

5. Remote acupoint pressing: look for tender points on the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the anterior and lateral sides of the buttocks, and the outer sides of the calves. Apply acupoint massage on this reaction point.

6. Rub your palms and waist: Put your palms together and rub them to warm them up. Then rub your hands on your waist, moving up and down, for 50 times.

7. Pinch the ankle tendons: Use your hands alternately to pinch the large tendons behind the ankle.

8. Pinch and rub the Ren Zhong point with your thumb and index finger.

9. Lift and rub the ears; pull the ears with your hands, then rub them until the ears become warm.

You can use it once a day. The technique should be used from light to heavy gradually, and the intensity should be within the tolerance level. If the treatment is performed according to the law, it will generally be effective in 1-2 months.

The above is an introduction to how to treat ankylosing cervical spondylitis. I believe that after reading the above introduction, everyone has already understood the treatment methods of ankylosing cervical spondylitis. From the above introduction, we can see that the treatment of ankylosing cervical spondylitis can be effectively prevented and treated as long as we start from ourselves and pay attention to rest and change our lifestyle habits.