Osteochondrosis- This is a disease of the spine, or rather the league.
Simply put, damage to metabolism in the intervertebral cartilage.
The name osteochondrosis comes from Greek words, osteon - "bone" and chondros - "cartilage". The essence of osteochondrosis is the bone and cartilage dystrophic process followed by aging. In the classic medical sense of osteochondrosis of the spine, degenerative lesion of the intervertebral disk cartilage and reactive changes from the adjacent body of the spine. It is generally accepted that the whole begins with errors on the disk, but the pain syndrome is already due to the neurological complications of the process.
There is a opinion that osteochondrosis is a disease, many factors - both hereditary and acquired factors. People most often begin to feel the manifestations of osteochondrosis after 35 years. The development and aggravation of the spine is facilitated by macro- and microtrauma, static and dynamic overload, and vibration.
The useful, optimal load of vertebrae and intervertebral discs is when we keep it in the natural position of the spine, which is designed for us by nature. When this situation changes, the load on the spine is inadequate distribution, which leads to the change of cartilage at the site of excessive pressure.
This can be caused:
- work on frequent changes in the body position;
- raising heavy loads;
- Forced a pose for a long time (such as schoolchildren and students)
- the bad pose in standing position, seat, lying and carrying weights;
- Physical education and sport without taking into account the effects of great physical effort;
- injury, hard physical work
Most often, many factors lead to osteochondrosis. A certain location including stress, hypothermia, unfavorable weather conditions (low temperatures in combination with high humidity), various chemicals that enter the body with food and breathing. People with excess body weight. Causes of osteochondrosis may include congenital deficiency of connective tissue (weakness of the ligament device), an exchange ehormonal, autoimmune diseases, trophy disorders in the joints, etc.
Osteochondrosis- The degradation and destruction of intervertebral discs. Osteochondrosis causes back pain in 80% of cases.
The mechanism of the appearance of pain can thus simplify: the intervertebral disk does not resist the load and its protrusion is formed. Around the intervertebral disk nervous processes, blood vessels and spinal cord. The disk hernia, which affects any of the nerve processes, causes inflammation, leading to pain.
The osteochondrosis of the cervical spine is distinguished by various symptoms. It has a discomfort that extends from the shoulder and forearm to the outer surface of the shoulder to the fingers, to the fingers of the zone, to increase or decrease the sensitivity, sometimes to rise at night and knead the muscles of the hands. The pain can be acute, with a cutting and electricity feeling. Pain is often increased with minimal arm load; Some patients are unable to walk in a coat - they need their shoulders and seem extremely difficult. The pain increases with coughing, sneezing, tension, and especially when thrown to a healthy side. Motor disorders can occur more often in the hands, especially in the fingers. As a general rule, it affects the lower spine of the spine.
Occasionally numbness, burning, hands or feet tingling, limiting the mobility of the upper or lower limbs and impaired sensitivity. The appearance of "cervical migraine" indicates the lesion of the spine artery. Blood circulation is disturbed in the stem of the brain and in the occlital parts of the brain. A constant symptom is headache. Generally, pain occurs in the back of the head and spreads to the parietal octic region. The pain is constant and increases with the movement of the neck, more often in the morning. Older people often lose their consciousness with the sharp turn of their heads, which are preceded by dizziness, the noise of the ears, the loss of visual acuity and the hearing, the nausea and vomiting.
Occasionally, there are pains in the heart - prolonged press. Osteochondrosis of the cervix, especially in old and senile ages, often show changes in soft tissues in the form of seals. These seals are determined in the fields of the neck muscles, the cervical vertebrae (often the vertebrae VII), the wrist, the elbow joints, the supra- and the subclavian fossa. With age, the cytry seals in your hands' palms are increasingly explored due to the change in the structure of the tendons.
The manifestation of osteochondrosis of the chest spine is extremely diverse, but none of the symptoms are strictly specific. Basically, the symptoms are determined by the localization (location) of the painful process and its severity. Chest spine pain is the main symptom. After physical effort or a long stay in one position, the pain increases, which makes patients to change the pose at night. It is very characteristic of a burning, sore or dull pain in the area of the Skapula and Inter -Space Square. Patients complain of the feeling of "iron ticks". Drinking is painful in the vertebrae processes. Pain can spread to various internal organs.
Diagnosis of osteochondrosis
Osteochondrosis is diagnosed with a neuropathologist or orthopedist. To confirm the diagnosis of osteochondrosis, your doctor will learn the symptoms of the disease, the history of the disease, and examine the patient. When examining patients with osteochondrosis, curvature of the spine (skoliosis) is usually observed on the side of the spine by painful points and tension muscles.
To clarify the diagnosis of osteochondrosis, we perform radiological examination of the spine, computer tomography or the nuclear magnetic resonance of the spine.
How to treat osteochondrosis
Currently, there are many ways to treat osteochondrosis from taking medicines and surgery. Of course, there are many debates with these methods and their effects on their body. You should pay attention to some points when selecting the treatment method.
For example, if you will treat drugs, make sure that most of them will adversely affect the stomach and liver, so it is important to contact only experienced professionals who choose the most retained medication.
When choosing a manual therapist, it is desirable to be tighter because it is a non -professional that can now lead to a lot of wheelchairs. When choosing therapeutic exercises, attention should be paid to the fact that exercises do not cause the spine load, but only develop the muscles of the back. Try to do all the exercises slowly without sudden movements.
To prevent osteochondrosis and to exclude its aggravations, it is advisable to observe a number of rules that reduce the load on the spine:
- Always keep your back exactly
- Try not to raise heavy objects. If necessary, raise them by squatting and not bending
- Move more often, don't let the atrophy of the back muscles
- Hang on the horizontal rod as often as possible and swim
But not everything is so awesome. For those who do not yet have such a disease, there are many preventive measures, the rest have a whole arsenal to treat the disease.
Preventing osteochondrosis
As you know, it is easier to prevent the disease than to treat. Prevention of osteochondrosis is needed for everyone - both children and adults. In fact, there is nothing complicated in it, and prevention of osteochondrosis does not require special efforts. The first and perhaps the most important point is to care for the health of the spine. To do this, the world of tips suggests continuous sports, or at least gymnastics, which promotes the formation of the corset of the spinal muscle and to improve blood circulation. The following is the constant monitoring of posture and walking, not the blow and the bending.
The ideal posture occurs when the head and back are the same vertically, the shoulders straighten, the blades do not stand, the chest rises and the stomach is drawn. My yoga teacher once said that the stomach is not because we eat a lot, but because we go wrong. How is it true? Imagine pulling the top of the head and barely touching the floor socks. Practice such an exercise for a few weeks, and soon you will not realize that you have become an excellent posture owner.
In addition, it is advisable to hang on the horizontal band as often as possible, stretching out the spinal column and letting it rest. Give yourself a dream in which your spine takes the right position. Scientists' studies have shown that the spine is an ideal pose on the back lying. However, the mattress should be heavy enough to use the spine to use a comfortable natural pose. To do this, put an elastic roller under your feet. We recommend that you buy an orthopedic mattress and a pillow and finally throw away the feather bed grandmother.
When you have a monotonous sedent work, you always take a break every two hours (the better, the better). Relax, move some of your head and shoulder, go. If possible, go out into the fresh air. Incidentally, such breaks are legalized, and in the working code, they are allowed to people who are constantly working on the computer.
We contain a balanced, vitaminized nutrition for prevention. Try to eat fish and seafood, nuts, legumes and various dairy products. Take complex vitamins regularly. This does not allow the metabolic violation. The overweight is the devastating load of the spine, so try not to heal.
Well, a few words about preventing children. You should consider your child's posture, gymnastics or morning exercises (this will be more effective if you make it together). And yet, give the school backpack, not the bags, because the backpacks balance the back load.