How to treat syringomyelia

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Chronic diseases of the spinal cord may cause syringomyelia. Some patients with syringomyelia do not know what kind of treatment they should take to make their recovery faster. In order to let more patients find their own treatment, let's talk about how to treat syringomyelia.

How to treat syringomyelia

First, syringomyelia is a chronic and progressive disease of the spinal cord. Syringomyelia bypass can be used to open the occipitocervical region according to the craniocervical operation, and a thin silicone tube is placed in the syringomyelia subarachnoid cavity drainage; or the catheter is sent to the cerebellomedullary cistern or pontine cistern for shunt, which has a good effect on relieving syringomyelia symptoms.

Second: the use of neurotrophic drugs, in the past have tried radiotherapy, but the curative effect is not exact. In view of the slow progression of this disease, and often combined with ring occipital malformation and cerebellar tonsillar hernia malformation, and these are considered to be related to the cause of disease, so surgical treatment should be taken after a clear diagnosis.

Third: surgical treatment, decompression of craniocervical junction area, treatment of deformities and other pathological factors that may exist in this part, elimination of etiology, prevention of disease development and deterioration, cavity incision shunt, so that cavity narrowing, relieve internal compression factors, in order to relieve symptoms. There are other treatments, including vitamin B, vasodilator, nerve cell metabolic function activator, can be applied. Physical therapy, physical therapy and acupuncture can be used according to the patient's condition to promote the recovery of neurological function after operation.

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Generally speaking, syringomyelia has the above three treatment methods, different people will use different methods. Syringomyelia disease development is relatively slow, which will give patients a good opportunity to control the disease through drugs, but surgical treatment is the last resort.