Another serious disease of our time is octeochondrosis. His first activity can appear even in his youth, when he spent a lot of time sitting in front of a computer or in front of a notebook, and suddenly he started up in the driver's seat. Most of it becomes such that it is difficult for the head to turn or "rise" from the pillow. After a few days, the exercise usually passes, and it may take a few months until the next arrival, and there may be a flight. Don't be fooled! The first is a serious warning that the mechanism of disruptive disruptive changes in your organization has already started. To understand this, let's understand what octeochondrosis is and why you need to start treating it with the first symptoms.
What is osteochondrosis?
Osteochondrosis are complex dystrophic changes in the spine, in which the following stages can be distinguished:
- Dystrophic changes in the cartilage tissue of the intervertebral discs, as a result of which movements are restricted and cause a feeling of discomfort (stage I)
- Disc deformation and gradual decrease in intervertebral distance (stage II).
- Herniated disc formation (stage III)
- Formation of the spine (osteophytes) and ossification of the ligaments, making movement very difficult and painful (stage IV)
Hernia education is a difficult process, which will be devoted to entire sections. However, by now you should know that such a serious illness will occur if the onset cannot be treated at the right time. So, who had a hunch such a herd, let us describe it in two words. To do this, you need to go back to the anatomy and remember the spinal device and the spinal disc.
Spinal disc dystrophy leads to the weakening of its fibrous annulus and displacement of the amber head of the disc (nucleus), as a result of the release of whichThen, under load, the annulus ruptures and the nucleus comes out of the disc, looking inadvertently heavy load.
For togo chtoby identify nalichie octeohondpoza, ocobenno nA pannih ctadiyah, kogda ne ickpivlenie daot explicit vneshnih ppiznakov, a takzhe oppedelit ego nappavlennoct and ctepen, neobhodimo cdelafinyitnoyu-pezonancnyyu-pezonancnyyu. This diagnostic method does not cause any harm to human health, unlike a reentgen, and also allows you to accurately determine the angle. Based on the doctor's description and the MPT images, the specialist will draw up the correct treatment plan for the patient, which is safe and healthy.
Types of vertebral osteochondrosis
Osteochondrosis is of several types
- Cervical: the most common, since it affects both young people and adults.
- Thoracic: it is relatively rare.
- Lumbar: develops after 40 years.
- Sacrum: generally passes from the lumbar area.
- Generalized - affects several departments or even the entire spine.
In this same sequence, the spontaneous development of this disease often occurs: starting from the upper cervical vertebrae and ending with the spontaneous and spontaneous ones.
But it happens that the type of octeochondrosis is associated with human activity. So the cervix is usually spread among students, contractors, and all other "brain" occupations presenters, although some of them have a long neck. In pabotnikov fizicheckogo tpyda, cpoptcmenov-tyazheloatletov yzhe c molodocti mozhet be poyacnichny octeohondpoz and takcictov, capozhnikov and dpygih ppedctaviteley "cidyachihny" poyacnichny octeohondpoz and takcictov, capozhnikov and dpygih ppedctaviteley "cidyachihny" poyacnichny cpetsialnocteely cpetsialnocteely cpetsialnocteely! Pectoral concealment is also often observed in those who are almost all day on the legs, since the latter are kept on the ground in the middle of the war.
The reasons for the appearance and development of osteochondrosis
However, osteochondrosis is not just a disease of a sedentary lifestyle, incorrect posture, or a consequence of weight lifting. There are many more factors and reasons for the appearance of this disease.
Let's highlight only the main ones:
- Inadequate diet with insufficient amount of protein and high content of sugar and fat.
- Altered metabolism and hormonal imbalance.
- Infectious diseases.
- Hypothermia.
- Weight gain and obesity.
- Spinal injury.
- Age-related bone degeneration.
- Hereditary diseases.
- Stress.
The main symptoms of osteochondrosis
Cervical osteochondrosis:
- Pain in the neck and head (may give way under the scapula, in the breastbone and in the arm).
- Dizziness, especially when changing position in the head.
- Numbness in the areas of the neck, face, tongue, subscapularis.
Chest osteochondrosis:
- Chest pain that may increase with inspiration and movement.
- Numb feeling in the chest.
Lumbosacral:
- Pain in the lumbar region (can be painful or sharp), radiating to the legs, and the location of the pain in the legs can move along the entire limb.
- Parasia of the legs (violation or even loss of sensation).
Pain in osteochondrosis is of a specific neurological nature. So people tend to accept headache, dizziness, feeling of numbness or pain in the legs as direct manifestations of diseases of the head or legs, although these can be symptoms of vertebral osteochondrosis. Therefore, if you notice something alarming in your state of health, coinciding with the above signs, be sure to visit a neurologist. After examining the doctor, if this disease is suspected, he will definitely prescribe an X-ray examination.
The main methods of treating osteochondrosis
Before treating osteochondrosis, you must first eliminate the causes of its occurrence.
Most effective back pain relief:
- Therapeutic gymnastics (exercises for back pain).
- MLS laser (after the 2nd session the pain disappears).
- Khivamat (a unique procedure that immediately relieves pain, but you have to walk 2-3 times).
Self-elimination of the causes of the progression of osteochondrosis is also the main method of its treatment and prevention.
Prevention and non-pharmacological treatment
This is mainly:
- Active lifestyle (mobile) and sports.
- Normal food with a protein diet that excludes fats and sugars.
- Physiotherapy (exercise therapy) with a set of individually selected exercises for each type of osteochondrosis.
- Physiotherapy (magnetotherapy, ultrasound treatment, electrophoresis, laser therapy).
- Massage, manual and reflexology.
However, such a conservative method of treatment is suitable for prophylaxis, to prevent the progression of osteochondrosis, and not in the active period of the disease. But how to treat this ailment, if it is running, its manifestations are obvious, and a person has a stage of exacerbation, namely:
- pain and fever;
- limited and difficult movement.
In this case, exercise therapy and physiotherapy are categorically contraindicated and only medication methods are used.
Drug treatment methods.
First of all, it is necessary to stop the pain and relieve the inflammatory process in the irritated nerve root. For this purpose, the following are designated:
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs);
- steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: corticosteroids, glucocorticoids;
- novocaine block (with severe pain);
- medications to relieve muscle spasms;
- ointments, gels, and creams to relieve pain.
The second phase of treatment includes:
- The use of vasodilators: Osteochondrosis always coexists with vasoconstriction and oxygen starvation of the brain (hence headaches and dizziness).
- Appointment of drugs that calm the nervous system - patients with this ailment are always anxious and suspicious, in most cases they are very frightened by the first attacks of the disease.
- Treatment of concomitant phenomena: it can be hypertension and cardiac dysfunction.
- Treatment must be prescribed by a neurologist, in the form of droppers, injections, and pills.
Do not try to treat the disease yourself!
At the end of the acute period and the normalization of well-being, return to non-pharmacological preventive treatment methods: exercise therapy, massage and physiotherapy, in the absence of contraindications.
Cheers to you!