Osteochondrosis of the spine

Spinal cord disease in our time is considered a serious medical and social problem. Each second person aged 30 is suffering from different vertebrates. Osteochondrosis is diagnosed in 70% of the older age population.

What is osteochondrosis

Osteochondrosis is a neurological disease of a chronic nature. From the Greek language, this term has been translated as osteo - bone and chondros - cartilage.

As a result of the pathological destruction of the tissue, their elasticity and loss of original form are reduced. The distance between the vertebrae is reduced, and the spine is deprived of a stable balance. Distinguish between lumbar, thoracic and cervical osteochondrosis.

With regard to the weakening of the intervertebral discs in the body, irreversible pathological processes may begin to develop. With delayed treatment, such a process can lead to vertebral hernia and extension. Further, degradation of the spinal column joints and intervertebral ligaments may occur. All of these processes lead to the formation of bone processes - osteophytes.

Causes of the disease

Osteochondrosis develops according to a number of factors that depend and do not depend on a person. The main reasons lie the following:

The causes of deviation in intervertebral sections are an asymmetrical muscle position. This happens in cases of improper heating before exercises, unpleasant poses when wearing heavy bags, improper position in a dream and using very soft mattresses or pillows. Often the causes of osteochondrosis can be flat feet. At the same time, foot disease does not provide proper depreciation during interaction with support and the entire load to go to the intervertebral columns. People with an excessive body mass very often face the problems of the spine. This is due to the fact that fat deposits are distributed in different parts of the body and axis of the spine, without enduring the excess load, begins to deform. Intervertebral connections take over all excess and overload over time. Cases of developing the disease are very common against the backdrop of various spine damage, overload of a dynamic and statistical nature, regular vibration on the vertebral axis. Moreover, the older one becomes a person, the more often he becomes the subject of such manifestations. The curvature of the spine is the undoubted cause of the development of osteochondrosis. Such a pathology can develop both in early childhood and at a later age. In school years, most people gain certain deviations about the spinal column. At a later age, these manifestations are poured into a chronic disease.

In addition to the above reasons, the following can be distinguished:

hereditary predisposition; smoking; intoxication or infectious disease; sharp disruption of strong physical exercise in the gym; inferior food; age -related changes; stay of residence during pregnancy; Adverse environmental conditions.

Symptoms of osteochondrosis

The main symptoms in the disease can be called back pain and neck. The severity of the symptoms depends on the severity and stage of the disease. Osteochondrosis has a wide clinical appearance. This is due to the fact that the location of the intervertebral discs is established, hernia is formed, growth in the beads. All this leads to damaged blood supply, nerve clamps, a dysfunction in the spinal cord and the appearance of the surrounding vertebrate fibrosis.

With the development of osteochondrosis, the following symptoms begin to appear:

An attractive or pulsating pain in the nap, neck, lower back appears; Muscle weakness is felt; When you turn your head, crusts are heard; Periodic headaches and dizziness arise; A person feels sudden fatigue from ordinary routine work, which over time is poured into a chronic; Limb numbers, their pain and chills feel; Sensitivity is disturbed; Muscle hypotension develops; Body fatigue, including the eye.

Depending on the area of the spine that strikes osteochondrosis, the symptoms may vary. With cervical osteochondrosis, pain in the hands and shoulders feels, the head begins to guess, "flies" periodically appear in front of the eyes. The lesion of the thoracic region leads to pain in the chest and heart region. The middle region declares itself to be pain in the lower back, which is given to the legs or organs of the pelvis.

With delayed treatment, the following disorders may appear:

Spinal hernia; Kyfosis; extension; radiculite; Salt deposits in the space between the vertebrae; spinal cord stroke; limb atrophy; Foot paralysis.

The treatment of osteochondrosis

Osteochondrosis is treated with a fairly long period of time, about three months plus annual rehabilitation. Self -medication can worsen the patient's condition and he can take more time for treatment and healing.

Therapeutic procedures are performed in two areas: conservative therapy and surgical intervention are used. Moreover, the patient is prescribed the relevant diet and general recommendations are given for maintaining his health.

During conservative treatment, it is the purpose of stopping pain syndrome, normalizing the spine and preventing further dystrophic changes in a person's "axis". It is performed by the following methods:

Drug therapy

Target to remove pain syndrome and prevent inflammation of the spinal tissue components. At the same time, the goal is to improve the work of metabolic processes.

The following medicines are described:

Anti -inflammatory non -steroidal. Antispasmodics. Antioxidants. Improving blood microcyrulation.

Medications for osteochondrosis can be used as tablets, ointments, gels and injections. Ointments based on bee and snake poison have good ratings. Famous anesthetic ointments can be used without a prescription of a doctor to relieve muscle pain.

Ointments are used both during the period of deterioration of pain and for the prevention of osteochondrosis.

To stop pain and stop inflammation, various use of therapeutic blockade. They help reduce muscle-tonic syndrome. Among these blockades, the application has been found:

Blockage of causing points; inside the bone; preverstebral; Epidural.

Physiotherapy

The procedure is needed to relieve severe pain in the spine area and near the adjacent organs. It is prescribed during the period of medication therapy and in the rehabilitation period to increase their effectiveness.

Physiotherapy is performed using the following tools:

Ultrasonic effects on the back; Laser treatment; magnetically - resonance therapy; The use of low frequency currents.

Physiotherapy's physical education (exercise therapy), kinetherapy

This type of treatment is selected individually depending on the severity of the continuing processes, the phases and the age of the patient. The exercises are selected dosed and carefully. The purpose of such exercises is to correct behavior, normalize muscle tissue work, their flexibility. At the same time, the decompression of the nerve roots is exposed and the prevention of possible complications is performed.

The procedure allows you to normalize metabolism and feeding of the intervertebral discs, improves blood circulation, restores the distance of discs and vertebrae, allows you to distribute the load evenly throughout the supporting and motor apparatus.

Moreover, the following procedures have a good restoration effect:

Massage helps improve blood circulation, relieve stiffness and tension in the muscles, and improve the general condition of the body and health of the patient. Hydromassage. The effect goes the same as massage therapy, only the work of the entire nervous system is still improving. Manual therapy. The impact goes to certain points of the bone and muscle system. Motor activity is restored, the immune system is strengthened and preventing possible complications. Extension of the spine. Using special equipment, the back is corrected. The procedure helps to get rid of pain attacks.

With the effectiveness of conservative treatment, surgical intervention is used. The surgical method is also described for the strongest damage to the spine and its nearby organs.

Any kind of osteochondrosis can develop for many years in a location of localization. But at the same time, pathological processes can be formed in any part of the spine. Timely treatment guarantees a favorable prognosis and a complete cure of osteochondrosis.