Many people face a lack of physical activity today.Monotonous work in the office, a long stay on television at home, as well as inappropriate foods - these are the main causes of many diseases.One of them can be called osteochondrosis in the cervical region, one of the most mobile segments of the human spine.It is on him that a huge quantity of loads is daily, because his main function is to hold his head.
This disease leads to significant discomfort in the lives of patients and is just as common in women and men.The disease is considered to be progressive, associated with dystrophic degenerative disorders of intervertebral discs and therefore requires a timely treatment for qualified medical care.
The reasons for the development of pathology
Osteochondrosis can affect all departments, but given the increased activity in the cervical region, is very often developing.
The disease is conditionally divided into 4 main steps:
- The first is associated with the initial disorders of vertebral disks, which is accompanied by unstable characteristics, and the symptoms are not very pronounced.
- The second - in which the gaps between the vertebrae are reduced and the destruction of the fiber ring begins, the offense of the nerve roots and, therefore, the pain, is possible.
- The third - when the destruction of the ring is already at the final stage, the intervertebral hernies can form and there are often signs of vertebral deformation.
- The fourth is the most serious stage where bone growths occur and all movements become very painful and almost impossible, which in the absence of treatment can cause disability.
Currently, there is a significant detection of osteochondrosis among young people, including the cervical region.If before this disease was considered age linked and has been found in patients aged 40, today, young people aged 18 to 30 are also often encountered this problem.
The causes of the disease are as follows:
- overweight problems;
- violation of the posture and curvature of the spine;
- Metabolic process delayed in the body;
- Various trauma of the spine;
- Heavy physical work and systematic lifting of significant weight;
- Classes of certain sports, violation of the training process;
- Low general physical training, in particular, the weakness of the muscle corset of the back;
- systematic hypothermia;
- transferred infectious diseases;
- Sitting lifestyle, lack of physical effort.
The reasons for limiting the mobility of the cervical region are also typical.These are muscle cramps, a deterioration of blood supply, by tightening the nerve endings, by narrowing the holes between the vertebrae and the development of dystrophic processes in the vertebrae and the intervertebral discs.
Symptoms of the disease
Symptoms and characteristic signs of cervical osteochondosis are mainly the result of a blood supply to the head and brain.This is due to the fact that the cervical region is saturated with blood vessels and it is thanks to them that the human brain is propelled.
The characteristic symptoms of the pathology of the cervical department are as follows:
- Headaches, which, depending on the degree of the disease, can be sufficiently serious and systematic;
- Luries for cervical osteochondosis are often accompanied by a loss of consciousness;
- The presence of a characteristic that sounds in the ears, often a decrease in hearing;
- violation of the coordination of movements, approach;
- vision of vision;
- high skin temperature, and sometimes a total high body temperature;
- The voice changes, for example, the wrapping of the voice or the presence of the hoarseness;
- unsatisfactory condition of teeth;
- a feeling of numbness of the fingers, cooling and a feeling of weakness of the hands;
- Pain in the neck, the throat, the pain in contact with the skin of the head, sometimes even the ailment of teeth;
- Pain propagating by hand, in the shoulders and its strengthening with various rounds or movements of the neck and the head;
- Nausea or even vomiting that can accompany intense pain.
Headache, limitation of mobility and other symptoms can be present both in the complex and separately, as well as for a different degree of intensity.As a rule, this directly depends on the specific object affected by the disease.On this basis, the disease is classified in the radicular syndromes so called, the vertebral artery syndrome, the compression of the spinal cord, radical syndrome, reflex and other syndromes.
Treatment of cervical column osteochondrosis
If the treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical column is absent, patients may experience typical symptoms of an untreated disease (headache, deterioration of memory, temperature, stunning, etc.) and then encounter fairly unpleasant consequences.For example, this can be a violation of brain traffic that occurs due to the worsening of blood flow through the vessels.
To avoid this, a patient who noticed the first signs of pathology, it is necessary to request qualified aid.
To provide patient first aid, you can use analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs (tablets, ointments, injections).You can also apply distracting drugs, for example, the warming of ointments with snake poison in or on the basis of the bee poison before visiting a doctor before visiting a doctor.When edema is formed, diuretics must be used or swollen with folk remedies, for example, decorations of herbs.As for visiting a doctor, it must be compulsory, regardless of the patient's relief during self-medication.
We do not heal prolonged cervical osteochondosis.
Osteochondrosis of the cervical column, as a rule, is diagnosed on the basis of patient complaints.To confirm the diagnosis, methods such as radiological examination, CT or MRI are used.
After confirming the diagnosis, the specialist prescribed treatment according to the stage of the disease, the individual characteristics of the patient's health as a whole.It should be noted that you can only get rid of the problem with the help of medicine until its early stages.In the treatment of pathology at the very beginning of its development, treatment with popular remedies can be quite effective.
As for the more advanced stages of cervical osteochondosis, their treatment is reduced to a decrease in the discomfort, pain and physical suffering of patients.With a competent and integrated approach, it is possible to eliminate the main symptoms of the disease and to prevent possible exacerbations, as well as to suspend the development of pathological processes in the spine.
The complete treatment of the disease implies the use of traditional medicine and non -traditional methods.In addition, at the stage of remission, additional treatment with folk remedies is authorized.
Among the most common methods to treat the disease, we can note the following:
- vacuum therapy;
- treatment with medication;
- acupuncture;
- Laser therapy;
- electrical stimulation;
- dry traction;
- Treatment of magnets;
- Classes of therapeutic gymnastics;
- The course of therapeutic massage, etc.
In order to eliminate pain syndrome, as a rule, it is enough for the patient to spend 1 to 3 treatment sessions.To consolidate positive therapeutic success, around 10 to 15 therapeutic sessions may be necessary.After having removed the acute scene, they use therapeutic gymnastics and massage.This will help restore blood circulation and strengthen muscles.