Objective: To explore the curative effect and clinical feasibility of cervical vertebra restoration pill combined with mechanical balance pillow in treating vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis. Method: From Mar 2011 to Apr 2013

160 patients with vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis were treated with cervical vertebra restoration pill combined with mechanical balance pillow. Another 160 patients as control group were treated by taking gastrodia tuder halimasch tablets with cervical traction.They were treated with 10 days per course

and the next course began after 1 day of rest

in a total of 3 courses. After one year of treatment

they were evaluated for the curative effect according to changes of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography and cervical arch roof pitch changes

cervical vertigo symptom and function scores. Result: Test results showed thatthe improvement of blood flow during the systolic peak period of the vertebral basilar artery and the end diastasis period

cervical arch roof pitch

cervical vertigo symptom and improvement of function scores after treatmentin the treatment group were significantly greater than those in control group

withstatistically significant difference between these two groups (P<0.05). In respect of clinical efficacy

the effective rate was 96.2% in treatment group

higher than 72.5% in control group

with statistically significant difference between these two groups (P<0.05). Conclusion: The method of cervical vertebra restoration pillcombined with mechanical balance pillow has significant efficacy in treating vertebral artery type cervical spondylosis

can improve the physiological curvature of cervical spine

improve the compliance of vertebral artery and thus increase the brain blood supply

and reconstruct biomechanical stability of cervical vertebra.