What to do if your child has cervical curvature

Cervical flexion is actually cervical arch. Generally speaking, the patients are basically children, and the main reason for cervical curvature is bad living habits. For example, it may be caused by hunching over or sleeping with a high pillow. What should parents do if their children have cervical curvature? In fact, the most common method is traction therapy, which can help children restore cervical spine health faster.

The most common one is the "high pillow", which causes the head to flex forward, increases the stress on the lower cervical spine, and may accelerate cervical degeneration.

Bad living habits such as lying still with a high pillow reading, lying on a high backrest watching TV, and spending long hours on the Internet or playing Mahjong, will weaken the "weak" connection of the cervical spine for a long time, causing its lordotic curve to gradually decrease and become straight or even reversed.

The bone and joint tissues related to the cervical vertebrae undergo premature hyperplasia, bone spurs, ligament hypertrophy, and intervertebral disc herniation due to compression, which compress the cervical spinal cord, nerve roots, vertebral arteries, etc., causing a series of physiological and pathological changes, and resulting in clinical symptoms related to cervical spondylosis, such as neck, shoulder, and arm pain, dizziness, insomnia, forgetfulness, etc.

Cervical disc herniation is a disease that is prone to recurrence. It is also common for symptoms to recur during clinical treatment, which requires patients to pay attention to rest during treatment. In daily work and life, such as watching TV, operating a computer, and sleeping, special attention should be paid to the comfort of the pillow to prevent recurrence of symptoms. If the pain and dizziness symptoms are acute, mannitol, dexamethasone, and compound danshen injection can be used by intravenous injection to reduce swelling and dehydration, relieve spasms and relieve pain to relieve symptoms.

The clinical treatment effect of patients with cervical disc herniation and spinal cord compression is not good. There are reports that heavy weight traction can treat cervical disc herniation and compress the spinal cord with good results. Although we have tried to learn from this, the effect is not obvious. Further practical discussion is needed in future clinical work.

Traction treatment for cervical disc herniation can enlarge the intervertebral space and intervertebral foramen, relieve spasm of the soft tissue in the neck, thereby reducing the pressure on the intervertebral disc, and trying to retract the protruding nucleus pulposus, so as to relieve the stimulation and compression of the nerve roots and vertebral arteries, and also relieve the adhesion between the protrusion and surrounding tissues. Massage therapy can relax painful neck muscles, promote local blood circulation, help dilute pain-causing substances, accelerate the excretion of metabolic products, and promote the absorption of local edema. On the other hand, the use of rotation "reduction" method can displace and deform the protruding intervertebral disc, relieve the pressure on the nerve roots, enhance the stability of the cervical joints, and balance the internal and external environment of the cervical spine.