Should Acupuncture be Used for Neck Pain?

A 45-year-old patient with early symptoms such as headache and numbness started to have high blood pressure symptoms two years ago, accompanied by headache, neck and shoulder pain, and hand numbness.

After taking various antihypertensive drugs, the effect is not apparent. Instead, the curvature of the cervical vertebrae joints became straight, which caused the blood pressure to rise. This situation is more likely to be missed.

After the cervical spine problem acupuncture and herbal medicine treatment, the patient’s blood pressure returned to normal, and the symptoms of neck and shoulder pain and numbness in the hands disappeared.

For patients with unsatisfactory drug control and no family history of hypertension: suppose there is still a headache, insomnia, memory loss, neck, shoulder, and back stiffness, pain, upper limb weakness, finger numbness, chest pain, tinnitus, blurred vision, and swelling of the eyes and combine with irritability and irritability, you may need to take a cervical spine X-ray or cervical spine CT first to rule out Cervical Hypertension. 

 For early mild cervical spondylosis, massage can relieve the pain. Slide the thumbs of both hands up and down to massage the back of the neck 20 to 40 times. Relax the muscles from light to heavy, and then press the Fengchi acupoints on both sides for a few minutes. Afterward, use your hands to pinch the muscles behind the neck, and repeat 5 to 10 times. The intensity is also from light to heavy. This massage can effectively relieve cervical pain, stiffness, and discomfort.

People who use computers for a long time at work or in life must stand up and relax for half an hour and move the neck, waist, and limbs, effectively relieving fatigue and reducing the occurrence of diseases such as the cervical and lumbar spine.

Patients with severe cervical spondylosis need to go to regular medical institutions for treatment, and self-use plaster, spray can only temporarily relieve the pain and cannot fundamentally solve the problem, which is easy to delay the disease.

Therefore, avoiding the air conditioner blowing directly on the back of the neck is excellent. In addition, it is good a blanket cover when sleeping at night to avoid getting cold.

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