Many people deal with the lack of physical activity today.Monated office work, a long stay on the TV at home, as well as improper food - these are the main causes of many diseases.One of them can be called osteochondrosis of the cervical region, one of the most mobile segments of the human spine.It is a huge amount of loads on a daily basis because its main function is to hold the head.
This disease brings significant discomfort to patients' lives and is equally common in both women and men.The disease is considered progressive, associated with degenerative dystrophic disorders of the intervertebral discs and therefore requires timely treatment of qualified medical care.
The reasons for the development of pathology
Osteochondrosis can affect all departments, but in view of the increased activity of the cervical region, it often develops in it.
The disease is conditionally divided into 4 main stages:
- The first is associated with the initial vertebral disks disorders, which are accompanied by unstable characteristics and the symptoms are slightly pronounced.
- The second - in which the gaps between the vertebrae are reduced and the destruction of the fibers is possible, it is possible to disturb the nerve roots and as a result.
- The third - when the destruction of the ring is already in the last stage, the intervertebral hernias can form and there are often signs of deformity of the spine.
- The fourth is the most severe stage when bone growth occurs and all movements become very painful and almost impossible, which in the absence of treatment can cause damage.
There is currently a significant detection of osteochondrosis in young people, including the cervical region.If earlier this disease was considered age-related and was found in patients 40 years of age, today young people aged 18-30 years also often encounter this problem.
The causes of the disease are the following:
- overweight problems;
- Disturbance of the posture and curvature of the spine;
- delayed metabolic processes in the body;
- various spinal injuries;
- heavy physical labor and systematic lifting of significant weights;
- Classes of some sports, violation of the training process;
- Weak general physical training, more special, the weakness of the muscle corset on the back;
- systematic hypothermia;
- transferred infectious diseases;
- Sitting lifestyles, lack of exercise.
The reasons for limiting the mobility of the cervical region are also typical.These are muscle cramps, worsening of the blood supply, the pressure of the nerve endings, the narrowing of the holes between the vertebrae and the development of dystrophic processes in the vertebrae and intervertebral discs.
Symptoms of the disease
The symptoms and characteristic signs of cervical osteochondrosis are a major result of a disorder of the blood supply to the head and brain.This is due to the fact that the cervical region is saturated with blood vessels and thanks to them the human brain is fed.
The characteristic symptoms of the pathology of the cervical department are as follows:
- Headache, which, depending on the degree of the disease, can be sufficiently severe and systematically;
- Dizziness of cervical osteochondrosis is often accompanied by loss of consciousness;
- The presence of a characteristic ringing in the ears, often reducing hearing;
- Violation of movement coordination, gait;
- Vision for vision;
- fever, and sometimes a general fever;
- The voice changes, for example, a hoarseness of the voice or the presence of hoarseness;
- unsatisfactory condition of the teeth;
- feeling of tingling of the fingers, cooling and a feeling of weakness of the hands;
- neck pain, throat, pain in contact with the scalp, sometimes even toothache;
- Pain spread in the arm, in the shoulders and its strengthening with different turns or movements of the neck and head;
- Nausea or even vomiting that can accompany severe pain.
Headache, mobility limitation and other symptoms can be present in both the complex and separately, as well as have different degrees of intensity.As a rule, this depends directly on which particular object is influenced by the disease.On this basis, the disease is classified in the so -covered radicular syndromes, spinal artery syndrome, spinal cord compression, radical syndrome, reflex syndromes and others.
Treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine
If there is no treatment for osteochondrosis of the cervical spine, then patients may experience typical symptoms of untreated disease (headache, memory worsening, fever, dizziness, etc.) and then encounter quite unpleasant consequences.For example, it may be a disorder of cerebral circulation that occurs due to a deterioration of blood flow through the vessels.
In order to avoid this, a patient who noticed the first signs of pathology should seek qualified help.
To provide first aid to the patient, you can use painkillers and anti -inflammatory drugs (tablets, ointments, injections).You can also administer distractions, for example, warming ointments with snake venom at or based on bee poison before seeing a doctor before seeing a doctor.When edema is formed, diuretics or swelling with folk remedies, such as a decoction of herbs, should be used.As for a doctor's visit, he or she should be mandatory, regardless of the patient's relief during suicide.
We do not treat prolonged cervical osteochondrosis.
Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine, as a rule, is diagnosed based on the patient's complaints.Methods such as radiological examination, CT or MRI are used to confirm the diagnosis.
After confirming the diagnosis, the specialist prescribes treatment depending on the stage of the disease, the individual characteristics of the patient's health as a whole.It is worth noting that you can get rid of the problem with the help of medicine only at its initial stages.In the treatment of pathology at the very beginning of its development, treatment with folk remedies can be quite effective.
As for the more advanced stages of cervical osteochondrosis, their treatment is reduced to a decrease in 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 stop the development of pathological processes in the spine.
Exhaustive treatment of the disease involves the use of traditional medicine and unconventional methods.Also, at the remission stage, additional treatment with folk remedies is acceptable.
Among the most common methods of treating the disease can be noted the following:
- vacuum therapy;
- treatment with drugs;
- acupuncture;
- laser therapy;
- Electrical stimulation;
- dry grip;
- Treatment with magnets;
- Classes of therapeutic gymnastics;
- Course of therapeutic massage, etc.
To eliminate the pain syndrome, it is as a rule that the patient undergoes 1-3 sessions of treatment.About 10-15 therapeutic sessions may be required to consolidate positive therapeutic success.After removing the acute stage, they resort to therapeutic gymnastics and massage.This will help to restore blood circulation and strengthen the muscles.