Osteochondrosis- This is a spine disease, or better said, its ligamento apparatus.
Simply put, breach of metabolism in an intervertebral cartilage.
The name osteochondrosis comes from the Greek words Osteon - "bone" and Hondros - "cartilage". The essence of osteochondrose is a dystrophic process in bones and cartilage, followed by their aging. Osteochondrosis of spine in classic medical sense is a degenerative lesion of the cartilage of the intervertebral disk and reactive changes from the neighboring spine bodies. It is generally accepted that everything begins with disk failures, but the pain syndrome occurs already due to the neurological complications of this process.
There is an opinion that osteochondrosis is a disease, it occurs as a result of the effects of many factors - and hereditary and acquired. People start to feel osteochondrose manifestations most often after 35 years. Development and deterioration of osteochondrosis of spine facilitates its macro microtraw, static and dynamic overload, as well as vibrations.
Useful, optimal load on spine and intervertebral discs is when we keep your spine in its natural position, which is conceived by nature. When this position changes, there is an improper distribution of cargo on the spine, which leads to a change in the cartilage in excess pressure points.
This can be caused:
- work associated with frequent changes of body position;
- Raising heavy loads;
- For a long time forced (for example, among tuitionees and students)
- the wrong pose in a standing position, sitting, lying down and when carrying a weights;
- Physical education and sports without taking into account the impact of great physical effort;
- Injuries, heavy physical work
Most often, several factors lead to osteochondrose development. A certain place among them is occupied by stress, hypothermia, adverse weather conditions (low temperature in combination with high moisture), various chemicals that enter the body with food and breathing. People with excess body mass. The causes of osteochondrose development can be a congenary lack of binding tissue (weakness of ligamental apparatus), exchanges-hormonal, autoimmune disease, trophy joint disorder, etc.
Osteochondrosis-degradation and destruction of intervertebral disks. It is osteochondrosis that is the cause of back pain in 80% of cases.
Pain phenomenism can simplify this way: the interverter disc does not support the load and its protrusion is formed. Around the intervertebral disk are nervous processes, containers and spinal cords. The hernia disk, which affects any of the nerve processes causing its inflammation, leading to pain.
Osteochondrosis of cervix is characterized by various symptoms. In the hand, there is an unpleasant sensation, spreading from the shoulder and forearm to the outer surface of shoulders and forearms to the fingers, the numbness of this zone, increasing or reducing sensitivity, sometimes you have to get up at night and mix muscles with your arms. Pain can be acute, cutting and accompanied by the feeling of electricity. Often pain intensifies minimal load on hand; Some patients are unable to walk into a coat - the shoulder pressure and appears to seem overly heavy. Pain is enhanced by cough, sneezing, straining, and especially when they leaned on a healthy side. Motor disorders may occur, more often in their hands, especially in their fingers. The rule is affected by 2-3 lower spine of the spine.
Sometimes stiffness, ignition, tingling in your hands or legs, limiting the mobility of the upper or lower extremities, and weakened sensitivity. The appearance of "cervical migraines" indicates a lesion of vertebral arteries. The circulation of blood in the stem and the occipital parts of the brain is disturbed. The constant symptom is a headache. Usually pain appears in the back of the head and spreads to the parietal octay region. The pain is constant and intensifies movement of the door, more often in the morning. Older people often lose consciousness with a sharp heading head, which precedes dizziness, ears in ears, decrease in sequence of vision and hearing, nausea and return.
Sometimes there are pain in the heart - extended, pressing. With osteochondrose of cervix, especially at old and senile age, there are often changes in soft tissues in the form of seals. These seals are determined in the neck muscles, in the area of the process of cervical vertebrae (often VII spine), joints, inclined joints, in suprank and subclavian fosses. With age, the cicatric seal in the palm of the palm is increasingly revealed, due to the change in the structure of the tendon.
The manifestations of osteochondrosis of thoracic spine are extremely diverse, but not one of the symptoms strictly specific. Basically, symptoms are determined by localization (location) of the painful process and the degree of its seriousness. The pain in the thoracic spine is the main symptom. After a physical effort or long stay in one position, the pain is intensified, which is forced by patients to move to the pose even at night. The fuels, painful or sealing pain in scapula and the interspace is very characteristic. Patients complain about the feeling of "iron tick. "Drinking on the processes of vertebrae is painful. Pain can be extended to different internal organs.
Osteochondrose diagnosis
The diagnosis of osteochondrose is performed by neuropathologist, orthopedist. To confirm the diagnosis of osteochondrose, the doctor finds out the symptoms of the disease, history of disease development and examines the patient. When examining patients with osteochondrose, the curvature of the spine (scoliosis), the presence of pain points and tense muscles on the side of the spine are usually revealed.
In order to clarify the diagnosis of osteochondrose, radiological inspection of spine, calculated tomography or nuclear magnetic resonance spine.
How to treat osteochondrose
There are currently many ways to treat osteochondrose, from the introduction of drugs and completion by surgery. Of course, there are many controversies about these methods and their influence on the body. When choosing treatment mode you should pay attention to some points.
For example, if you are gonna stick to medications, you should pay attention to the fact that most of them negatively affect the stomach and liver, so it is important to just contact experienced experts who will choose the most amazing drug therapy.
When choosing a manual therapist, it is desirable to be closer, because it is not-professional, which are quite a lot now, you can lead you to a wheelchair. When choosing therapeutic exercises, it is necessary to pay attention to ensuring that exercises do not cause the load on your spine, but develop back muscles. Try to do all the exercises slowly, without sudden movements.
To prevent osteochondrose and exclusion of their deterioration, it is recommended to observe several rules that will reduce the load on your spine:
- Always keep your back right
- Try not to rise heavy objects. If necessary, drag them with a crack, not tilts
- Head more often, don't let the back muscles of atrophy
- hanging on a horizontal lane as often as possible and swim
But it's not all so scary. For those who do not yet have this disease, there are a number of preventive measures, the rest have a whole arsenal of funds for the treatment of this disease.
Osteochondrose prevention
As you know, it is easier to prevent illness than to treat. Osteochondrose prevention is necessary for all - and children and adults. Moreover, it cannot be complicated in it, and the prevention of osteohondrose does not require any special efforts. The first and perhaps the most important thing is the care of the health of the spine. To do this, the world of advice advises constantly playing sports or at least gymnastics, which will help develop a spinal muscle corset and improve blood circulation. The next is constantly monitoring holding and gait, not to be bushed and not standing.
The ideal posture is when the head and back on the same vertical, the shoulders are corrected, shoulders are not kept, the chest is raised, and the stomach was withdrawn. My yoga teacher once said that the stomach was noticeable not because we eat a lot, but because we walk on evil. How exactly is it? Imagine pulling back towards the top of your head, and you barely touch the socks of the floor. Exercise such an exercise for a few weeks and you will soon not notice that they have become the owner of a great posture.
It is also advisable to hang as often as possible on the horizontal lane, stretching the spinal column and relaxing. Allow yourself such a dream in which your spine will take the right position. Scientist studies have shown that the ideal pose for the spine in the back on the back. But at the same time, the mattress should be heavy enough for your spine to take on a suitable natural pose. To do this, put the elastic roller under your leg. We advise you to buy an orthopedic mattress and a pillow and finally threaten your grandmother from a feather.
If you have monotonous sitting work, always every two hours (more often, the better) rest. Relax, make some move your head and shoulders, go. If possible, go out into fresh air. By the way, such breaks are legalized, and in the labor labor law are allowed for people who are constantly working on a computer.
We include a balanced, vitaminized feeding for prevention. Try eating fish and seafood, nuts, legumes and various dairy products. Take complex vitamins periodically. You will not allow a metabolic offense by this. Excess weight is a destructive spine load, so try not recovering.
Well, a few words about prevention in children. It is necessary to monitor the attitude of the child, to perform gymnastics or morning exercises (will be more effective if you make together). Still, give the advantage to school backpacks, not bags, because they are backpacks that balance the load on the back.