Early symptoms of cervical spondylotic myelopathy

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Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is a kind of cervical spondylosis, patients will have some symptoms in the early stage. To understand some early symptoms of cervical spondylotic myelopathy, patients can find themselves sick in the early stage of illness, early detection can be early treatment, the earlier treatment, the greater the probability of recovery.

Early symptoms of cervical spondylotic myelopathy

Compared with other types of cervical spondylosis, cervical spondylotic myelopathy is less common, but the symptoms are very serious. Most of the patients' condition is under the condition of recessive invasion, and it is easy to be misdiagnosed as other diseases. If it is misdiagnosed as other diseases, it will delay the treatment time of patients. Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is mainly due to spinal cord compression or several times leading to spinal cord reflex, movement disorders.

The symptoms of cervical spondylotic myelopathy are as follows. If patients have these symptoms, they should pay attention as soon as possible. Pyramidal tract is the most important feature of cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Most patients will feel weakness of lower limbs, tight legs, heavy feeling when lifting, and then feel easy to drift when walking, like walking on cotton, easy to kneel down. Gait will also be affected, gait becomes clumsy, toes are difficult to get off the ground. Limb numbness, because the patient's spinothalamic tract is affected at the same time, the patient's nerves from the neck, upper limbs, chest, waist, lower limbs and sacral are affected. Dysreflexia, after the patient is sick, the reflex is not as flexible as before, often delayed or unable to reflex. Autonomic nervous symptoms, which mainly appear in the late stage of the disease.

Patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy should pay more attention to their diet. For staple food, they can eat ordinary rice, noodles and so on. For non-staple food, you can eat some beans, fruits and vegetables and so on. The nutritional components of staple food and non-staple food are not the same. We should eat them at the same time to maintain a balanced nutrition. The combination of staple food and non-staple food, coarse food and fine food can meet the nutritional needs of patients, promote their recovery and maintain their health.

matters needing attention

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients in the disease, limb reflex and movement will be affected, if the patient's movement is inconvenient, can be appropriate with the aid of equipment to help patients walk. During the treatment, patients should also try to exercise properly, according to the doctor's requirements, in order to avoid the limbs become more inflexible due to long-term non exercise. Due to the limitation of physical activities, patients will have negative psychology, and their families should help patients maintain a positive attitude.