Cervical hypertrophy

The so-called cervical hypertrophy refers to the symptoms such as neck pain, dizziness, and numbness caused by hypertrophy of the cervical spine. This disease is medically called cervical spondylosis or cervical syndrome. Occurs in middle-aged and older people who are over 40 years old, especially those who often work with their heads down and maintain a certain posture for a long time in daily life and work. If you lower your head for a long time to read, copy, sew, etc., it will easily cause cumulative neck strain. A person's neck is both heavy and mobile, so it is susceptible to injury. In addition, as we age, the spinal canal degenerates like any tissue. These two factors together form a cervical spine spur, that is, cervical hypertrophy. If the hypertrophic bone spurs grow on the leading edge of the cervical vertebral body, no symptoms will occur. Neck pain, hand numbness, dizziness, headache, and limb weakness can occur only when bone spurs grow on the side or posterior edge of the vertebral body and protrude into the intervertebral foramen or spinal canal, compressing the vertebral artery, nerve root or spinal cord , Unstable walking and so on.

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