In this article, a detailed look at all the signs and symptoms of degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine. Osteochondrosis and degenerative destruction of the vertebral clubs and of the vertebrae with degenerative manifestations.
However, due to the violation of the integrity of the intervertebral component, appear terrible pathology, a hernia I was coming out, until the destruction of the bone.
What and osteochondrosis
It should be remembered that the process of les destruction vertebrae and the discs, and irreversible and to restore the original maximum performance will not work. All you can do, a slow process of destruction.
Cervical osteochondrosis and much more dangerous, as the spine, a large number of nerve fibers and blood vessels, working directly with the body and the brain in General. The vertebrae in the cervical region are very close to each other, which also creates the danger.
Compressing Any of the nerve endings, arteries, the blood vessels, interrupts the blood supply and nutrition of the entire organism, which leads to a series of symptoms.
Symptoms
Cervical osteochondrosis can not be disassembled, due to the similarity with other diseases. L And ca initial stage, you can even take it for normal fatigue or overexertion. I often the diagnoses are false. Diagnoses When it is important to determine what piegaro branches compressed, perhaps because the brain is missing suffers from circulation.
Marta manifestations of cervical degenerative disc disease are:
- Headache. This is the first I and persistent symptom. With the development of the disease, the pain and the worse. The pain and similar to the migraine, but coupled with pain killers. Of course, if you have the disease, the pain killers not work. Basically, the experience a person in the pulse temporal and occipital area, and region. I Found parietal locations.
- Weakness in the arms. It is considered un sign of nerve damage in the process that the responsible for the regulation of innervation upper limb. The damage can be very strong, up to paralysis.
- The poor mobility of the crisis. Cervical osteochondrosis often With the head turn hard. Also, head movements are limited to forward and backward. And in this case accompanied by a crisis of the joints.
- Sensation of numbness in the hands or other parts of the body. Hands or fingers may lose sensitivity. If you don't treat low back pain, the lack of sensitivity increases until complete paralysis or partial of the body. Depends on the area of the injury which is nerve endings damaged.
- The impairment of hearing and vision. There is sometimes a feeling of numbness of the tongue and lips, flashing "flies" before the eyes, blurring of objects. Losing affects these organs because of the proximity with the other and lack of of oxygen to the brain.
- The lack of air. Appears in lesions of the cervix often due to irritation of the phrenic nerve. The patient and not able to breathe, breathing difficulty, to live and dyspnea, snoring appears. The result in hypoxia, the constant fatigue, loss of memory, attention, weakness, and physical discomfort.
- Dizziness. Very unpleasant symptom that violate the coordination of movements. Accompanied sometimes with nausea, fainting, tinnitus. Sent the vibrations of the earth beneath their feet. Appears when the oxygen starvation of the brain of a cause of the dysfunction of the blood vessels and arteries.
Reasons
A lot of them. Still did not appear a clear opinion why the low back pain affects an area was the largest poured concrete of the spine. However, factors that have long been known.
Lifestyle
The most common cause of cervical degenerative disc disease. The modern man, Because it does not move. The model of society and social behaviour change progress and still not be low back pain, more and more "young people".
In this group s include:
- sedentary lifestyle — lack of exercise;
- the bad Group and excess weight;
- continuous tense, or uncomfortable (Marta between the workers and the directors of offices d');
- the lack of tension in the spine, which weakens the Lite version of the corset;
- on the contrary, too much load on the spine.
Injury
In injuries of the spine, in 90% of cases of suffering cervical. Often the infractions that are detected, but sometimes for the development of the disease takes time.
The interruption in the hormonal
For this reason, the affected can't be only people of middle age, but teenagers, during the restructuring of the whole organization. It is worth noting that in this case, the disease is preventable and treatable.
If to speak about the menopause in women and hormonal cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, and multiple sclerosis, treatment, and symptomatic.
Genetic predisposition
This factor in addition to a relative, because the genetics are not the basis for the development of the disease. But that affects the appearance of other reasons.
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
This – scoliosis, and bad posture.
The diagnosis of the disease
The diagnosis can only be established by a doctor. When the first symptoms of osteoarthritis, be sure to consult with a specialist. The diagnosis is carried out by using various methods.
For example, apply to:
- CT (computed tomography);
- MRI (magnetic resonance imaging);
- dopplerographic study of the blood vessels;
- x-ray, and commonly un method used for the detection of the disease.
Each method is effective in a certain phase of development of osteochondrosis. For example, the x-ray will not be informative at early stages of the disease.
In the disease of the severe accompanied by alteration of the sensitivity, paralysis and fainting, held Doppler.
From the moment of diagnosis all influence the success of treatment. The that was used the more likely that the minimum and disturbance of the spine.
The stage of the disease
To distinguish between the 4 stages of development of osteochondrosis.
- The presence of pain in the neck, the neck of the area on palpation. So you react to the affected nerve branches. The pain and the worse on moving the head, often, when the curves. While at this stage the spine is intact, the area of the affected intervertebral.
- It is characterized by pain of a shooting character, which gives to the hand, the shoulder or arising from the movement of the head. Similar Pain to a migraine. Develops insomnia. At this stage of the disease the vertebral disks begin to change destructive.
- The pain becomes constant, amplifying. Numbness and stiffness of the limbs, the movements of any difficulty. In the hands of the ever-felt weakness. Suffers from attention and memory. The intervertebral discs s has broken down, develop cracks, and the joint of the capsule bulges. La formacio d a herniated disc.
- Complete destruction not only of records, but also of the vertebrae. The bone was also destroyed. In this stage, the surgical intervention, a necessary, the hernias resulting because they are the result of a paralysis, not only of the hands but the entire body.
It is believed that low back pain can be treated at home only in the first two stages. The third requires the un professional observation, treatment d, and under the supervision of a neurologist or vertebrologist.
Treatment at home
Worth the treatment to mention that, even in the first stage sense to consult un doctor is not carried out. Still, for the diagnosis of cervical degenerative disc disease in most of the technical advice necessary to make the un-diagnosis and testing. Low Because back pain can masquerade as more serious pathology associated with cardiac failure.
If the diagnosis and the wrong, then the treatment will be assigned later. Consequences can be terrible – ischemia, brain, cerebral vascular accident, spinal nerve compression, and other diseases that threaten the patient's life.
A home treatment consists of:
- drug therapy;
- massage;
- of medicine and gymnastics.
And important to approach treatment in a holistic manner. Otherwise the result may not be or will be but temporary.
The medication
The appointment and use of drugs necessary for the relief of severe pain at the mobilization of the disease, the relief of the symptoms.
The drugs administered can be different directions:
- the reduction of the blood pressure, and improved brain function – the so-called neuro-protectors. They are a great group of doctors drugs;
- improve the vision;
- prevents the feeling of numbness, or relieve muscle spasm – muscle relaxants;
- anti-inflammatory –;
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory – reduce the inflammation on pain in the acute phase. They Are not only available in tablets but also in capsules, ointments and solutions for injections. Is not intended for extended use due to the large impact on the mucosa of the digestive tract,
- the group b vitamins (B1, B6, B12). Help restore the health and the brain of the nervous system. Responsible for the transmission of nerve impulses.
The vitamins can be taken in pill form or scheme in the shots below. The second option allows you to get the un to better effect;
Chondroprotectors occupy a special place. Drugs invented Are the improvement of the nutrition of the intervertebral cartilage, which slows down their dystrophic changes and degenerative. Effective only in the first two stages.
Massage
And an integral part of treatment. Traditional massage with the technical advice of experts s have held courses every six months. Today, there are un bunch of methods of treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical area and there are un bunch to choose from.
For example, the practice of manual techniques that have been proven in a positive way and gives good result in treatment.
Recently introduced in the direction of the"osteopathy, and very interesting, bearing in mind that because the human body author as a, with the musculoskeletal system, mental health and nervous. All are from the un. Is done The treatment with the hand.
Acupuncture a good also a solution with the condition to keep it to an experienced technician.
Hirudotherapy or a sangonera the therapy efficiency is in l l l l height of acupuncture.
Gymnastics
We have already talked about the fact that one of the factors that influence the development of cervical degenerative disk disease a low physical activity of the muscles of the back. In our days that most of the times we spend in a sitting position sense change their stance, which can be quite uncomfortable.
Important Information! You can perform exercises during acute pain.
I strengthen To keep the muscular system need daily to follow the exercises ten simple. Particularly relevant Are the manifestations initial of the disease.
- From the standing position, naked, in the shoulder width of a hand, stomach, I shoulders back. From this position of the hands must be lifted sideways and upwards, joining at the top with the subsequent abstraction and back. Feel how the leaves are connected. Original works of art of this, the position of the body aligned. Repeat a times fins 7.
- Yip the same thing. Well, as hang as hard as you can with the elbows looking forward. Then put the arms back, so that their hands were touching elbows. Don't forget to involve the stomach constantly. Repeat up to 10 times.
- Best to do this exercise while standing, but if and or hard dizziness, seeds and acceptable sitting position. Keep the neck straight, and shoulders straighten. The head must rotate to the left and the chin to reach his shoulder felt up to it. The same in the other direction. The exercise is carried out alternately with snooze 5 times fins.
- Similar to exercise # 3, only the head does tilt forward and backward of the un to the rhythm very lent.
- Slowly and carefully take the semi-circle and leaning forward with the head, from left shoulder to right and back. Attention! And impossible to un circular motion, only un semicircle!
- IP foot. You have to make your hands fists and propping up the chin. Press the chin on your hands for 5 seconds, and then change the position in the region occipital. Exercise-you for the formacio of the muscles of the neck. Repeat 4 times.
- Seated hands rest on your hips, I tilted the head is more forward. Ideal Place, to the situation when the chin rests on the chest. In this perspective, the head to turn to the left, original works of art to the right. And important that the chin all the time you touch the chest. Repeat up to 10 times.
- Need a chair with the lower back. Will be good if this exercise is done at least 4 times. Shoulders straightened. The tavern offers a try to look at the wall behind him.
- Sitting in the chair. Hands between her knees. Inhale tilt to the side. Exhale – straight position. Working alternately left and right 7 times.
- Exercise on the ventre. Lying to bend the need of up, trying to fix the body as high as possible, and more. Repeat 6 times.
The complex is only done in a good hour and slowly increase the number of repetitions.
Folk remedies
Treatment remedies are the most popular activities and aimed at warming the patient in the area. But here we must be wary of these practices, such as neck offers great proximity to the brain. And so, instead of heal, can harm.
In the treatment of recipes popular, and choose the best with a soft impact, evitar serious irritation.
Recipes:
- Ointment of my grandmother. Not iodine and camphor 10 ml, analgin – 10 tablets, crushed alcohol 300 ml) All mixed and smeared the neck with a thin layer of the night.
- Potato poultice of potato skin and honey. Superimposed on the night.
- The un poultice of well. Fresh leaves of well processed more of the steam machine and superimposed on the neck as a compress for 15 minutes.
- Compress the Un aloe. Take 1 part of the leaves of aloe I grind, s add in the parts of honey 2 and 3 parts of alcohol of the product. Has The mixture rest for 12 hours. Compress during s tips 15 minutes at most.