Protect Your Neck From Cervical Lordosis
The demonstration of a lordotic curve in cervical spine is generally considered normal and healthy as it helps to distribute stress and prevents back injury and muscle strain. But when there is an exaggerated curvature, leading to the abnormal inward curvature of the neck region, it is termed as cervical lordosis. Usually there are no symptoms or pain attached with this anatomical condition and the patient at times is not even aware of his hyper lordotic state. The cervical spine, which is the most mobile part of the spinal column, is prone to wear and tear with age. This wear and tear generally affects the intervertebral discs and the seven facet joints on either side of the spinal column. All cervical spine disorders like cervical spondylosis, cervical osteoarthritis, cervical spondylarthritis, are related to cervical spine degeneration.
Whenever people suffer from neck pain, they prefer to keep it as a self limited complaint. It is always attributed to a wrong sleeping posture or to cold wind. However, the main cause behind this is usually the degenerative cervical spine disease. Though it is the most common cause of pain, at times it becomes most difficult to treat. Cervical disk herniations, cervical stenosis and cervical spondylosis are common types of degenerative disorders. The degenerative process that affects the cervical spine is termed cervical osteoarthritis. It is also called cervical spine spondylosis. This condition generally affects people over 40 years of age and men are affected more than the women. This condition is a result of the degenerative changes in the cervical spine that also leads to changes in the vertebra. Consequently, it leads to inflammation and nerve compression. In cervical spine osteoarthritis, there is a chronic degeneration of the cushions between the cervical discs and also the joints between the cervical spine bones. Another cervical spine problem is cervical degenerative disc disease. This condition is a result of the breakdown of the normal structure of the cervical spine. This leads to the stiffness of the neck and causes cervical spine pain. Most patients with this disease suffer from numbness, weakness in neck, arm and shoulders and tingling as a result of the pinching and irritation of nerves in the concerned area. In this degenerative disc disease cervical spine loses its flexibility, elasticity and shock absorbing ability. The cervical spine decompression is a surgery to remove the offending cervical disc. A cervical disc herniation is removed through this approach to relieve the spinal cord or nerve root pressure. As a result, the pain, weakness, numbness and tingling is alleviated. This surgery is also called cervical discectomy. But the major problem that patients face after this surgery is sore throat and difficulty in swallowing. The surgical manipulation of the concerned area also produces a lump in the area. |