Another serious illness of our time is osteochondrosis.His first signs can appear in his youth when suddenly, with a long sitting on the computer or above the notebook, suddenly, in the beginning it begins to be just discomfort, and then pain in the seventh cervical vertebra.Soon the pain becomes such that it is difficult to turn your head or "tear" from the pillow.After a few days, the sharpening usually passes and it can take several months before the next attack, maybe years.However, do not flatter!The first attack is a serious warning that the mechanism of destructive dystrophic changes in your body has already been launched.To understand this, let's understand what osteochondrosis is and why you should start treating it from the first symptoms.
What is osteochondrosis?
Osteochondrosis is complex dystrophic changes in the spine in which such stages can be distinguished:
- Dystrophic changes in the cartilage tissue of the intervertebral discs, resulting in the movements of the movements and causes a feeling of discomfort (Stage I)
- Deformation of drinks and a gradual decrease in the intervertebral distance (stage II).
- The formation of intervertebral hernia (Stage III)
- The formation of spikes (osteophytes) and the ossification of relationships, which makes the movement very difficult and painful (stage IV)
The formation of hernia is a complex process to which whole sections will be dedicated.However, you should now know that such a serious illness happens if osteochondrosis does not cure on time.Therefore, so you have an idea of what hernia is, we will understand in a nutshell about it.To do this, you will need to contact an anatomy for a short while and remember the device of the spine and spinal disc.
The distribution of the spinal disc leads to a weakening of its fibrous ring and the displacement of the main shock absorber on the disc (nucleus), resulting in the formation of a bulge (convexity) or the so -called "preliminary crisis".Then, under the influence of the load, sooner or later there is a rupture of the ring and the outlet of the nucleus outside the disc - the hernia itself is formed directly, which causes severe pain when the radicular nerve is damaged.
In order to identify the presence of osteochondrosis, especially in the early stages, when the curvature does not give obvious external signs, its orientation and degree is also determined, it is necessary to make a magnetic resonance imaging.This diagnostic method does not cause any harm to human health, unlike X -Ray, also allows you to accurately determine the angle of deviation.Based on the description of the X -ray and the NMR, images, the specialist builds the right plan for the treatment of the patient, which, of course, is the strengthening of the muscle corset.
When selecting a clinic for the transition of the MRI of the study, it is first and foremost to examine the power of the equipment used and the qualification of clinic employees.
Types of spinal osteochondrosis
Osteochondrosis can be of several types:
- Cervical is the most common, both young and adults
- Current - is a relatively rare
- Lumbar - develops after 40 years
- Sacral - usually transition from lumbar
- Total - affects several departments or even the entire spine
In the same sequence, there is often a spontaneous development of this disease: starting from the upper cervical vertebrae and ending with sacral and coccygel.
But it happens that osteochondrosis is associated with human activity.So, cervical is usually common among students, designers and all other representatives of the "brain" professions in which the neck has been in a constantly tense neck for a long time.Physical labor staff, youth-foggy athletes may have lumbar osteochondrosis, taxi drivers, shoemakers and other representatives of "sitting" specialties-sacral plus with a lumbar with a cervical set!Osteochondrosis is often observed in Vet, which is almost all day on its feet, as it is the sacrum that keeps our body upright and the whole load falls on it during the straightening process or walking
The causes of appearance and the development of osteochondrosis
However, osteochondrosis is not only a disease of a sedentary lifestyle, improper posture or a consequence of weight lifting.There are many more factors and causes of the origin of this disease.I will only emphasize the main one:
- Improper meal with insufficient protein and high sugar and fat
- Impaired metabolism and hormonal imbalance
- Infectious diseases
- Hypothermia
- High weight and obese
- Spine injuries
- Age Bone Degeneration
- Hereditary
- Stress
The main symptoms of osteochondrosis
Cervical osteochondrosis:
- Neck and head pain (can be attached under the shoulder blade, to the sternum and arm)
- Dizziness, especially when you change position in the head
- Tingling in areas of the neck, face, tongue, submarine
Thoracic osteochondrosis:
- Thoracic pain that can be exacerbated by inhalation and when moving
- Tingling
Lumbar cross:
- Lower back pain (may be acute or acute) that gives the legs and the location of the pain in the legs can move along the entire length of the limb
- Kraki (violation or even loss of sensitivity)
The pain for osteochondrosis is specific neurological.So, headache, dizziness, numbness or legs in the legs tend to take as direct manifestations of head or leg diseases, although these can be symptoms of vertebrae osteochondrosis.Therefore, if you notice something disturbing in your well -being, coinciding with above the listed signs, be sure to visit a neuropathologist.The doctor who examined, with a suspicion of this disease, will surely prescribe an X -Ray examination.
The main methods of treating osteochondrosis
The most effective removal of back pain:
- Therapeutic gymnastics (back pain exercises)
- Mls laser (after the second session the pain passes)
- Hivamat (a unique procedure that releases pain immediately, but we must be just like 2-3 times.)
The very elimination of the causes of the progression of osteochondrosis is the main method of its treatment and prevention.
Prevention and treatment without medicine
This is first:
- Active (mobile) lifestyle and sports
- Normal feeding with a protein diet except fat and sugar
- Medical Physical Education (Exercise Therapy) with an individually selected set of exercises for each type of osteochondrosis
- Physiotherapy (magnet therapy, ultrasound, electrophoresis, laser therapy)
- Massage, manual and reflexology
However, such a conservative method of treatment is suitable for prevention to prevent the progression of osteochondrosis, not in the active period of the disease.But how to treat this disease if it is fired, its manifestations are obvious and one has a stage of exacerbation, namely: Exactly:
- Pain and fever
- Limited, which is given with great difficulties, movements
In this case, exercises and physiotherapy are definitely contraindicated and extremely drug methods are used.
Methods of treating drugs
First, you should stop the pain and relieve the inflammatory process in the nerve spine, which is irritated.For this purpose, they are appointed:
- non -steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs);Corticosteroids, glucocorticoids IDR.(They are prescribed if the NSAID work is not sufficient)
- Novocaine blockade (with severe pain)
- Muscle spasm removal preparations;
- Painkillers, gels and creams;
The second phase of treatment includes:
- The use of vasodilators: osteochondrosis is always adjacent to the narrowing of blood vessels and the fasting of oxygen of the brain (hence headache and dizziness)
- The appointment of agents that soothe the nervous system: patients with this disease are always anxious and suspicious, in most cases they are very scared by the first attacks of the disease.
- Treatment of concomitant phenomena - this can be hypertension and disruption of cardiac activity
- Treatment should prescribe a neuropathologist in the form of droplets, injections and tablets
Do not try to treat the disease yourself!
At the end of the acute period and normalization of well -being, return to non -destructive methods of preventive treatment: exercise therapy, massage and physiotherapy in the absence of contraindications for them.
Health for you!