Cervical spondylosis treatment options include physical therapy, medications, and surgery. Physical therapy focuses on cervical collars, traction, and exercises to strengthen neck muscles. Medications like acetaminophen, NSAIDs, muscle relaxants, and anti-epileptic drugs are used to reduce pain and inflammation. Surgery such as discectomy and fusion is reserved for severe, unrelieved pain or when the spinal cord is compressed and involves removing part of the disc and fusing vertebrae.

1. CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS

2. TREATMENT AND
MANAGEMENT

3. PHYSICAL
THERAPY
SURGICALMEDICATIONS

4. PHYSICALTHERAPY

5. 1-Cervical Soft Collars (Neck Immobilization)
• These collars limit neck motion and allow the muscles of the neck to
rest.
• Soft collars should only be worn for short periods of time because
long-term wear can decrease the strength of neck muscles

6. 2- CervicalTraction
• Manual CervicalTraction
• Mechanical Cervical Traction
• Over-the-Door Traction

7. MEDICATION

8. The goal of pharmacotherapy is to reduce pain and inflammation
• Acetaminophen:
• Tylenol
• Mild pain.
• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs):
• Ibuprofen
• Often prescribed with acetaminophen,
• Considered as first-line medicines for neck pain.
• (address both pain and swelling)
• Muscle relaxants:
• Cyclobenzaprine
• For painful muscle spasms
• Anti-epileptic drugs,
• Gabapentin,
• Relieve pain caused by nerve damage

9. SURGICAL
Surgery is reserved for patients who have severe pain that has not
been relieved by any other treatment
Or there is clear evidence that a never is being pinched by a
slipped disk or bone
Or the spinal cord is being compressed

10. Discectomy and fusion:
•Is a procedure to remove a portion of an intervertebral disc
that is putting pressure on a nerve root or the spinal canal.
•Then stabilize the spine through spinal fusion.Typically, a
plate with screws is added to the front of the spine for added
stability.

11. Laminectomy:
• Removal of the bony arches of the spinal canal (Lamina)
• To decrease pressure on the spinal cord
Laminoplasty:
• Bones are spread open to widen the space
• Bone not removed.

12. Foraminectomy:
• Small incision in the back of the neck
• To relieve a compression on the spinal nerve roots in the neck