Traction methods for cervical spondylosis

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I have suffered from cervical spondylosis for several years. If there are many ways to treat it, I used to do massage and acupuncture. They all worked at that time, and then they all relapsed. Recently, I am doing traction, and now I feel that the effect is still good. Many friends around me want to take traction to treat cervical spondylosis. Now I will introduce the method of traction for cervical spondylosis!

Traction methods for cervical spondylosis

First of all, when doing traction, you can take the sitting position or supine position. For convenience, take more stable sitting position to make the neck lean forward about 10-30 ° from the trunk longitudinal axis to avoid over extension. Patients are required to fully relax the neck, shoulder and whole body muscles. Traction position should make the patient feel comfortable, if there is discomfort, it should be adjusted as appropriate. In patients with vertebral artery type, the anteversion angle should be smaller, and in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy, the nearly vertical position should be taken instead of flexion traction.

Secondly, generally, the weight difference of traction is very big, which can be from 1 / 10 to 1 / 5 of the patient's own weight, most of them use 6-7kg, and at the beginning, use a smaller weight to facilitate the patient to adapt. At the end of each traction, the patient should have obvious feeling of neck stretching, but no special discomfort. If the feeling is not obvious, the weight should be increased as appropriate. The duration of each traction is usually 20-30 minutes. Traction weight and duration can be combined in different ways. Generally, the duration is shorter when traction weight is larger, and longer when traction weight is smaller.

Finally, if the effect of traction is not obvious, or the patient's symptoms are serious or the body is not durable, supine position traction can be used. The weight of traction is 2-3kg. After continuous traction for 2 hours, rest for 15 minutes, and then traction. The total time of traction per day can reach 10-14 hours.

matters needing attention

Now there are more and more people suffering from cervical spondylosis, so we need to pay special attention in our life. We can't just work with our head down. We need to pay attention to more neck activities, avoid a long-time neck posture, and don't play with mobile phones and computers for a long time. At the same time, we can often do hot compress and massage, which helps to prevent further aggravation of symptoms and the occurrence of cervical spondylosis.