55-year-old Mr He felt tired from work one day, neck discomfort, his wife wanted to help him massage relief, so he used his elbow to massage his shoulders and neck. Not two minutes, Mr He suddenly felt numbness in the right hand, a tingling sensation. At that time just stop massaging, did not expect two or three days after his right hand palm naturally drooping, and a few fingers can not be stretched out, which panicked.

　　Mr He's son immediately sent his father from Yunfu to the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University for medical treatment. Mr He's son immediately sent his father from Yunfu to the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, where he was seen by Yan Bo of the Department of Spine Surgery. At that time, Mr He's right upper limb was weak and numb, and his fingers' fine movements were limited. The hospital perfected the relevant examinations for him, and the imaging films showed that Mr He was suffering from multiple cervical spondylosis, cervical disc herniation, secondary to the corresponding spinal stenosis.

　　Dr Yin Ganghui, Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Spine Surgery I, explained that Mr He's condition was a cervical spinal cord injury with severe aging and ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical vertebrae, which led to hand ptosis and paralysis of the earthworm muscles of the four fingers on the radial side. Surgical treatment could create conditions for recovery of the incompletely damaged spinal cord. The specialists drew up a surgical plan for decompression from the posterior approach. Mr Ho was able to slightly regain movement in his right hand on the next day after the operation, and it was basically back to normal three days later.

　　Not all neck discomfort can be massaged

　　Cervical spondylosis is very common in daily life, and many people like to go for massage when they have cervical discomfort, but not all cervical spondylosis can be relieved by massage. Some cases of massage will not only aggravate the condition, there may even be more serious consequences.

　　For example, in the acute stage of cervical radiculopathy patients, due to cervical spondylosis leads to nerve root compression, manifested in the shoulder, arm, hand and other parts of the numbness or radiating pain, the pain can be extended to the fingers, there is a feeling of electric shock, once compressed, the patient may be manifested in the neck and shoulder pain, numbness of the hand, muscle weakness, and so on. Therefore, massage is not recommended.

　　In addition, patients with spinal cord cervical spondylosis can not be massaged. Massage in patients with spinal cervical spondylosis may cause spinal cord injury, and may also cause incontinence, serious or even lead to paralysis. Spinal cervical spondylosis can cause spinal cord compression and ischemia, resulting in spinal cord conduction dysfunction, like having a "time bomb" in the body.

　　Yin Ganghui said, suffering from spinal cord cervical spondylosis, the initial stage of the general will have limb or trunk numbness, do not listen to the command, holding objects sometimes unconsciously fall, urinary and faecal disorders and other symptoms, these symptoms are always "one after the other", and after resting to reduce significantly, some patients think they should not be a problem, do not pay attention to the delay in the condition.

　　Neck problems should not be taken lightly

　　Clinically, the more common symptoms of cervical spondylosis are stiffness and pain in the neck, shoulder and back pain, soreness, numbness and pain in the upper limbs, severe weakness in the limbs, limitation of fine finger movement, unsteady walking, walking on cotton, and even dysfunction in urination and defecation.

　　Yin Ganghui suggested that if these symptoms need to be alert to the occurrence of cervical spondylosis, serious spinal problems, must be timely to the regular hospital consultation, can not be delayed. Timely figure out the situation of the spinal canal, otherwise there is a possibility of falling, collision or ride in the car emergency braking, etc., will lead to serious consequences.

　　Therefore, cervical spondylosis patients massage need to be careful, in the original existence of spinal cord, nerve compression, external forces are very easy to cause spinal cord, nerve damage, the consequences are unimaginable. Every year, there are spinal disease patients because of massage massage lead to paralysis cases. In addition, Yin Ganghui reminded, dizziness, headache, most of the cervical spondylosis is not caused by, if simple dizziness accompanied by tinnitus, should be to the ear, nose and throat. If it is just dizziness, the first choice is neurology.