LECTURE ON ACUPUNCTURE Part I Clinical Acupuncture Lecture Thirty-five Cervical Spondylopathy

摘要

Cervical Spondylopathy, also known as cervical syndrome, is a commonly encountered disease in the middle-aged and elderly people. This disease mostly results from the retrograde affection of the cervical intervertebral disc and hyper-osteogeny of the cervical vertebrae. This hyper-plastic substance may stimulate and give rise to oppression to the surrounding spinal cord, nerve roots, blood vessels and sympathetic nerves, resulting in a series of symptoms as numbness, pain, etc. in the neck, shoulder and the upper limbs.