| prescribed to relieve pain or relax muscles in cervical | | | | spondylosis should consist of salad of raw vegetables |
| spondylosis do not cure the disease. These can | | | | such as tomato, carrot, cabbage, cucumber, radish, |
| become habit forming and may actually perpetuate | | | | lettuce and at least two steamed or lightly-cooked |
| the condition in case of excessive intake. | | | | vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage, carrot, |
| Certain safety measures, especially for people in | | | | spinach and plenty of fruits. The patients should have |
| sedentary occupations, are necessary to relieve and | | | | four meals daily. |
| prevent spondylosis. The most important of these is | | | | The patient should avoid fatty, spicy and fried foods, |
| exercise which improves the supply of nutrients to | | | | sour curd, sweets, sugar, condiments as well as tea |
| spinal discs, thereby delaying the process of | | | | and coffee. |
| deterioration that comes with age and eventually | | | | Those who smoke and take tobacco in any form |
| affects everybody. Safe exercises include walking, | | | | should give up completely. |
| swimming and bicycling. The latter should be done | | | | Proteins and Vitamin C are necessary for the |
| keeping the back upright. | | | | development of a healthy bone metrix. Vitamin D, |
| Other exercises found beneficial in the treatment of | | | | calcium, phosphorous and the essential trace minerals |
| cervical spondylosis are joint movements like folding | | | | are essential for healthy bones. Foods that have |
| and unfolding of fingers, moving the wrists up and | | | | been processed for storage to avoid spoiling have |
| down, rotating them in both clockwise and | | | | few nutrients and should be eliminated from the diet. |
| anti-clockwise direction, folding and unfolding of the | | | | Certain food remedies have been found beneficial in |
| forearms and rotating the shoulder clockwise and | | | | the treatment of spondylosis. The most important of |
| anti-clockwise;. head and neck exercises like moving | | | | these is the use of garlic. Two or three capsules of |
| the neck up and down, moving to the sides, rotating | | | | this vegetable should be taken daily in the morning. It |
| the neck clockwise and anticlockwise and | | | | will give good results. An oil prepared from garlic and |
| nodding the neck from one shoulder to another; and | | | | rubbed on the affected part will give great relief. This |
| shoulder exercises like lifting the shoulders up and | | | | oil is prepared by frying 10 cloves of garlic in 60 |
| down, moving the shoulder in clockwise and in | | | | grams of oil in a frying pan. They should be fried |
| anticlockwise directions. All these exercises | | | | slowly till they are brown. After it is cooled, it should |
| should be undertaken three times daily. | | | | be applied vigorously on the affected part and |
| Those with sedentary occupations should take a | | | | allowed to remain there for three hours. The patient |
| break to stand up every hour. Soft-cushioned seats | | | | may thereafter have a warm bath. This treatment |
| should be avoided and position should be changed as | | | | should be continued for at least 15 days. |
| often as possible. Elderly persons with spondylosis | | | | Relief from pain can be obtained by taking lemon |
| should sleep on a firm mattress on their sides with | | | | juice mixed with common salt twice or thrice daily. A |
| knees bent at right angles to the torso. They should | | | | piece of the chebulic myrobalan taken after principal |
| use thin pillows or avoid it altogether, if possible. They | | | | meals also gives quick relief. |
| should take care never to bend from the waist down | | | | Other measures found valuable in cervical spondylosis |
| to lift any object, but instead should squat close to | | | | are mild oil massage to the neck, shoulders and |
| the object, bending the knees but keeping the back | | | | hands, hot fomentation for five to 10 minutes twice |
| straight and then stand up slowly. | | | | a day or five to 10 minutes of exposure to the Infra |
| The diet of elderly persons suffering from | | | | red rays. |