The clinical symptoms of cervical spondylosis are more complicated. They mainly include neck and back pain, upper limb weakness, numbness of fingers, lower limb weakness, difficulty in walking, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even blurred vision and difficulty in swallowing. In recent years, the tradition that cervical spondylosis is the patent of the middle-aged and elderly is gradually rewritten for reality, and the incidence of this disease is rapidly increasing, and obviously tends to be younger, in which the incidence of cervical spondylosis in primary and secondary school students is rapidly increasing. The efficacy and role of cupping is very much, but can cupping cure cervical spondylosis?
Can cupping cure cervical spondylosis?
Fire cupping can treat cervical spondylosis.
Cervical spondylosis is often caused by the exposure of the neck muscles, stimulated by cold, so that the local muscles contract protectively, resulting in increased neck tension, imbalance of neck strength, tension and spasm of the neck muscles, which in turn compresses the nerves and blood vessels, resulting in neck pain and discomfort. Cupping method is through the human shoulder and neck related points such as the large vertebrae point, shoulder well point, Tianzong point, Quchi point, hand Sanli point, Wai Guan point and other points to stimulate can effectively Shu meridians, help qi and blood run usually, so cupping has a very good effect on the treatment of cervical spondylosis.
What types of cervical spondylosis can be treated with fire cupping?
There are different ways to treat cervical spondylosis, so you can't just go for cupping treatment. Cervical cervical spondylosis and neurological cervical spondylosis are cold-damp obstructive cervical spondylosis, and generally patients with cold-damp obstructive cervical spondylosis are more suitable for cupping therapy to improve the disease.
Cervical cervical spondylosis: manifests as cervical straightness and pain, but also the whole shoulder and back pain hair plate, can not do nodding, head tilting and head turning activities, a slanting neck posture (commonly known as crooked neck).
Nerve root type cervical spondylosis: manifested as pain, weakness of movement, numbness of fingers fingertip sensory allergy and skin sensory loss, etc.
How often to cupping for cervical spondylosis
Depending on the urgency of the cervical spondylosis and the strength of the patient, if the cervical spondylosis is mild, cupping is usually done every other day or once a day, and several times a day for the more severe cases, in order not to let the patient feel fatigue. If the cervical spondylosis patient feels tired and weak during the treatment, it can be suspended for three or five days in between.
What are the methods of fire cupping for cervical spondylosis?
Fire cupping method
Use the flash fire method (put a lit alcohol cotton ball, reach into the jar and burn it for a while, withdraw the cotton ball and soon the hood is fastened on the affected skin.) Attach the cupping jar to the Da Zhi, Da Loom, Shoulder Well, Shoulder Point, Tian Zong, Diaphragm Acupoint, Liver Yu, or to the above acupuncture points with the pumping jar method, and leave the jar for 10-15 minutes.
Stabbing cupping method
After local sterilization, use a skin needle to pierce the acupuncture point until it slightly oozes blood, and then immediately use the flash fire method to cupping.
Walking cupping method
Using the flash fire method, cupping is applied to the neck, walking back and forth along the cervical spine, the outer shoulder acupoint of the hand sun and small intestine meridian to Tianzong.
Medicine cupping method
A bamboo tube of different caliber is placed in a pot of boiling medicinal water, removed after 2-3 minutes, and the medicinal water inside the tube is shaken off and quickly placed on the patient's acupuncture point, which can firmly absorb the skin. 7-8 minutes later, the local skin appears bruised or congested.
Cautions for cervical spondylosis with fire cupping
First, since cupping is a professional treatment of cervical spondylosis, of course, is not simple, if cervical spondylosis patients regardless of their own cupping at home, it is easy to cause danger, there is no shortage of cupping accidents in life. If the acupuncture points are applied indiscriminately, sometimes it will be counterproductive.
Second, although cupping can treat cervical spondylosis, but the premise of using fire cupping must be clear about the cause of pain, and the causes of pain is very complex, there are some pain is due to chronic diseases or fatigue, tension caused by, such as lumbar muscle strain, such as cervical spine regular pain should go to the hospital for examination, only to understand the cause, in order to treat the symptoms.
Third, cervical spondylosis patients should pay attention before cupping
1, cupping before the room temperature should be appropriate, not too cold or too hot, so as not to cause cervical spondylosis patients catch a cold.
2, cervical spondylosis patients before cupping should not be tired or drinking alcohol, so as not to affect the efficacy.
Fourth, cervical spondylosis patients after cupping should pay attention to
1, can itchy spot, do not scratch, so as not to cervical spondylosis patients after cupping skin damage or secondary infection.
2, if the cervical spondylosis patient skin burns after cupping, a small blister, it is appropriate to use a high concentration of potassium permanganate solution coated. Larger blisters, can be punctured to release water, dressing with anti-inflammatory cream, sterile auxiliary material fixed to prevent septicemia.
3, after cupping cervical spondylosis patients should pay attention to insulation, it is best to wear good clothes, rest twenty to thirty minutes, and then out of the treatment room, so as not to catch the wind and cold.
