Cervical spondylosis

Out of misunderstanding of cervical spondylosis

Abstract: People stay long-term work on desk and have long working hours of phubbing, who will be used to the activities of the neck, and sometimes the neck will have a snapping sound. If you are at the age of 40 years,who suffer from cervical ligament calcification, there may have pathological snapping sound.

Medi-Rehatek continues to introduce the misunderstanding of cervical spondylosis.

3.Cervical spine has bony spur that is not equal to cervical spondylosis

Cervical spine with bony spur, that is a normal physiological signs of transformation. If people over the age of 40 have the cervical X-ray film, you will find many people have varying degrees of bone hyperplasia. This is as age increases, the disc between cervical vertebrae will appear different degrees of metamorphism.Annulus fibrosus become loose,which make cervical vertebrae become unstable, gradually leading to hematoma calcification, which is spur what we usually say.

Many people have severe bone spurs without any symptoms, so it can not alone determine the spur is cervical spondylosis on the X-ray. Because cervical spondylosis is a more complex disease that leads to clinical syndrome.When we diagnose cervical spondylosis, it is necessary to see abnormal changes from X-ray , but also we need to analyses the emergence of corresponding clinical symptoms.

When the nervous system and vertebral artery are stimulated and oppressed according to the pathological changes of the cervical spine.Then we can conclude after a comprehensive analysis. It is noteworthy that the bone spurs can’t be erased, so do not trust the showy advertising and letters of agents.

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Misunderstanding of cervical spondylosis

Abstract: People stay long-term work on desk and have long working hours of phubbing, who will be used to the activities of the neck, and sometimes the neck will have a snapping sound. If you are at the age of 40 years,who suffer from cervical ligament calcification, there may have pathological snapping sound.

The number of cervical spondylosis is increasing, there are currently about 50 million people who suffer from cervical spondylosis.The trend is upward. Many people have the misunderstanding of cervical spondylosis, so MEDI-REHATEK need to clarify a few related issues.

1.The sound when you twist the neck that doesn’t prove that you have got cervical spondylosis

People stay long-term work on desk and have long working hours of phubbing, who will be used to the activities of the neck, and sometimes the neck will have a snapping sound. If you are at the age of 40 years,who suffer from cervical ligament calcification, there may have pathological snapping sound.So what is the reason of the sound produced by young people who twist the neck ? 

When you are twisting the neck, the tendons, ligaments, joint capsule and other soft tissue around the vertebral body slip through the vertebral body parts,that will make the sound. Therefore, young people have this phenomenon who should go to a regular hospital for specialists to check, if no other symptoms, who do not bear the burden of cervical spondylosis.

2.Arms and hands are numb or tingling,that can not conclude that you have cervical spondylosis

Some people work for long hours on desk, whose arms, fingers are numb and tingling or prickling. Although these symptoms are the common manifestation of cervical spondylosis, but we still can not rashly conclude that they have got cervical spondylosis. Other diseases such as frozen shoulder, cervical ribs syndrome, biceps dermatomyositis, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc., which will occur these symptoms. 

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The reasons of knee pain

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4, Knee osteoarthritis

This disease is more common in the elderly, mostly in women. Overweight load is the main cause of disease. Knee swelling causes pain, and sometimes there will friction sound in joints movement. Knee may appear with genu varus deformity and medial pain.

5,Knee joint ligament injury

When knee has a slight flexion,the stability is relatively poor, if at this time suddenly knee is subject to external force that leads to genu valgus or varus, it may cause medial or lateral collateral ligament injury. Clinical studies have shown that medial collateral ligament injury is accounted for the vast majority. Taking this injury for example, patients will have a clear history of trauma. There are medial knee pain and tenderness, the pain will increase when leg has passive outreach.Medial knee swelling will have ecchymosis a few days later. Knee movement will be limited.

6, Inappropriate or without warm-up

When many people exercise, they often do leg stretching exercises firstly, who don’t know that leg stretching exercises is the main cause of knee injury. In exercise, the knee is under great pressure, you must have an appropriate warm-up in order to avoid from injury. You exercise without warm-up, that equals to without natural lubrication to joints, knee movement of course does not work well. In addition, the cold and taut muscles also is not conducive to the smooth operation of the joint. Sudden start or end of action, will tear around the muscles around the joints, causing or exacerbating the excessive use of injury.

7, Hyperactivity

Excessive activity is often counterproductive, which not only reduces physical fitness, but also becomes one of the factors of knee injury. If you feel uncomfortable with your knee during exercise, it is acceptable; if you feel pain the next day, the situation is not good. Prolonged pain result in limping and swelling around the knee, which are the warning of knee injuries, they should immediately seek medical attention.

8, Overweight and improper diet

 Too fat people’s knee joints have to bear more weight. Sooner or later the knee will be"injured" Like walking upstairs such a simple action, the pressure on the knee is usually 3 times more than usual ! If you overweight 5 kg, that is equivalent to carry more than 20 kilograms of "fat" when climbing the stairs each time ! 

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The causes of knee pain

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The knee joint is a large and complex flexion joint in the human body. It is subject to stress, has structural stability and flexibility. When knee pain has occurred, and this pain is often overlooked or is arbitrarily considered to be arthritis and other diseases. In fact, there are many reasons that can lead to knee pain.

 There are several common cases that can cause knee pain.

1, Fat pad strain

Fat pad fills the gap in the front of the knee in order to strengthen the joint stability and reduce the role of friction. Fat pad strain may be due to trauma or fat pad hyperemia ,hypertrophy and inflammation caused by long-term friction, adhesion that occurs with the patellar ligament, so that the knee movement is limited. This injury mostly occurred in some people over  the age of 30 who have the more frequent movement like regular walk, mountaineering or squatting. Patients will feel knee pain, pain will exacerbate when it is fully extended, but joint activities are not restricted. The symptoms are more obvious after fat pad strain.

2, Meniscus injury

It is a common injury for athletes. When their lower extremities bear load and the feet are fixed,  suddenly they have excessive knee extension in the internal and external rotation knee (such as playing volleyball, the players are in the defense and sudd6enly turn the body to save the ball with diving action), it is possible to cause meniscus tear. Meniscus injury will have a significant sense of knee tear, then the knee joint feels pain, mobility is limited,patients limp.The joints show swelling and slippage, and snap during joint movement.

 3, Knee joint traumatic synovitis

Knee synovial membrane is one of the main structure of the composition of the knee. Synovial cells secrete synovial fluid that can maintain the surface lubrication of articular cartilage  and increase the range of joint activities. As trauma or excessive strain and other factors can damage the synovium, which will produce large amounts of fluid, so that intra-articular pressure increases.If the fluid is not promptly removed, it is easy to cause joint adhesions, affecting normal activities. Patients will feel knee pain, swelling, tenderness, synovial friction has unsmooth sound. The most significant pain is when the knee is extremely active extension, especially when there is some resistance to do knee exercise, the pain will increase on the lower patella.When knee is extremely passive flexion, pain is significantly increased. 

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Best Treatment for Elbow Pain

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Elbow pain refers to the tendon tenderness and inflammation of outer elbow. The pain is caused by repetitive force on the muscles of wrist and fingers that stretch backwards. The patient feels pain in the outer elbow when gripping or lifting the object. Tennis elbow is a typical example of overwork syndrome. Studies have shown that the wrist extensor muscles, especially the wrist extensor carpi radialis brevis, which extends straight and puts forth your strength to the radial ,the tension is very large.The partial fiber on muscle and bones junction will have over-stretching to form a slight tear.

Treatment method

Rest and change activity patterns.

Appropriate rest is particularly important in the acute phase (severe redness, swelling, pain), but changing the pattern of activity is more important. Finding the cause of the injury, and then patients make the appropriate changes, who can slow down the disease. Studies have shown that tennis players suffer from tennis elbow, who reduce training intensity and scientific exercise, who can reduce 90% of the disease.

Physiotherapy.

Patients should be early to rest, local site can have hot compress.The affected limb is fixed with a triangular suspension in the chest. The elevation of affected limb and electrotherapy can control the inflammation.Physical therapy heals the tendon in a good environment.

Drug.

Anti-inflammatory drugs can help relieve pain and inflammation. Some people want to reduce the pain quickly, they choose to local steroid injection, but in fact it will cause a lot of harm to the organization, so it is not recommended to use.

Acupuncture and massage.

Acupuncture and massage produce stimulation to activate the elbow muscles through acupuncture points. The injured part can be messaged in different way like rub, press, straighten out, calm massage each day. It can relieve blood vessels and muscle spasms, relax the muscles and promote the blood circulation, repair tendons. Note that the action should be gentle massage, avoid fierce pull, so as to avoid secondary injury.

Topical Chinese herb.

External application of Chinese herbal medicine and wet wound pain cream as well as topical herb have a certain effect.It can remove rheumatism and dehumidify,relax the muscles and promote blood circulation to arrest pain.

Elbow brace.

In sports, the tennis elbow is mostly due to improper excessive force.In order to prevent the occurrence of tennis elbow, patient should have more activities om elbow and arm before the campaign activities. It is better to wear elbow brace in the forearm to ease the pressure on the elbow muscles.

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When will prosthesis be installed after amputation

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Many patients with amputation have this view, that prosthesis assembly needs to wait a long time after the amputation.The reasons for these patients with amputation who have limb edema without having the final shape. 

After the installation of prosthetic limb,the stump will shrink. Yes, that is right.Limb has edema after amputation, after the installation of prosthetic limb the residual limb will shrink.But amputees still should install the prosthesis as soon as possible.Before the first installation of temporary prostheses ,we need to promote the residual limb to have final shape, that will lay the foundation for the installation of a formal prosthesis.

In some places abroad, the patient's stump is installed with plaster socket after amputation surgery.The socket is connected to the prosthetic feet. The patient can walk out of bed as soon as practicing. Or waiting until the amputation wound is healing and stitches are taken out , patients need installation of artificial limbs as soon as possible.

At present, some prosthetic companies pick up the patients from hospital to install the prosthetic limbs, who does not promote the final shape of residual limb in that time.This is wrong to make patients wear the prosthesis formally. The stump will shrink fiercely after wearing prosthesis.

Even medical institutions should allow patients to wear bandages to promote the final type of residual limb. After the initial stereotypes, the patients need installing one or more prosthetic sockets .After 3 months when the shape of stump doesn’t change,patients can go to prosthetic company to replace prosthesis. 

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7, scar.

Surgical scar is inevitable. But also due to improper operation or inflammatory changes make line-like scar expansion, adhesions or contracture, a few people have physical scars who will produce keloids.

8, Skin diseases.

Common folliculitis and ringworm. It is mainly due to poor sanitary conditions of the residual limb.

9, Phantom sensation and phantom limb pain.

Patients may experience phantom sensation and phantom limb pain, that is, there is still the amputated limb that has the pain feelings. Phantom limb sensation and phantom limb pain are normal after surgery and they usually disappear after a few weeks or after prosthetic assembly. 

Patients can start tapping the affected limb after the wound is healing every 10-15 minutes, 1-2 times a day.Patients gradually increase the number of beats and strength, and the correct use of elastic bandage, can ease the phantom Limb sensation and phantom limb pain. 

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3,Reduce the stump pain

There are many causes of residual limb pain, but mainly in the following areas:

1) Surgery on nerve damage;

2) Limb blood circulation disorders;

3) The limb was cut off to cause the abnormal muscle tension;

4) Residual nerve has tumor;

5) Central nervous system injury.

The pain must be alleviated before prosthesis assembly.We must take surgery, medication, physical therapy, block therapy, acupuncture, injection or psychological treatment, etc. according to its cause. It avoids malignant pain to have formation of the foci in the brain center . Most can be cured, only a few patients are required surgery.

4, To protect the hygiene of the stump

Patients need to wash the stump with soapy water before bedtime daily.If using residual limb-specific care solution, patient can use body lotion to prevent better residual limb from infection.

5, stump sinus or ulcers

The formation of the sinus is mainly due to infection after there is a foreign body in deep wound, such as thick silk thread, sequestrum.Ulcers are mainly due to poor blood supply to the skin, and too many stump scar tissues, neurological disorders and other factors.The ulcers usually are in the load-bearing parts. Non-healing Wound will affect the prosthetic assembly, the treatment method is based on the condition, the elimination of foreign body, dealing with wound or re-amputation.

6, Residual bursitis

Occurrence of bursitis on the residual limb, if the bursitis often has the friction in the load-bearing parts, that will continue to become larger.It is difficult to subside, known as the abnormal synovial capsule. In general, there is no effect, such as synovial pouch is too large or infected, it needs treatment, while eliminating the cause of synovial fluid. 

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