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Another serious illness of our time is osteochondrosis.His first signs may appear in his youth, when suddenly, with a long sitting on the computer or above the notebook, suddenly, at first, it begins to be just discomfort, then pain in the seventh cervical vertebra.Soon the pain becomes such that it is difficult to turn the head or "start" from the pillow.After a few days, the exacerbation usually passes, and before the next attack it can spend several months, maybe years.However, do not flatter!The first attack is a serious warning that the mechanism of dystrophic changes in its body has already been launched.To understand this, we discover what osteochondrosis is and why you need to start treating it from the first symptoms.

What is osteochondrosis?

Osteochondrosis are complex distribution changes in the column in which such stages can be distinguished:

1. Distrophic changes in cartilage tissue of intervertebral discs, as a result of what movements are limited and cause feelings of discomfort (stage I)
2. Drug deformation and gradual decrease in intervertebral distance (stage II).
3. The formation of intervertebral hernia (stage III)
4. The formation of peaks (osteophytes) and the ossification of the ligaments, which makes the movement very difficult and painful (stage IV)

The formation of a hernia is a complex process to which entire sections will be dedicated.However, now you should know that such a serious disease is happening if osteochondrosis does not treat in time.Therefore, so that you have an idea of what a hernia is, we will tell it in two words about it.To do this, you will have to resort to anatomy again for a short time and remember the device of the spine and the spinal disc.

The distribution of the spinal disc leads to a weakening of its fibrous ring and the displacement of the main crash absorber of the disk (nucleus), as a result of which the formation of bulk (protrusion) or the so-called "pre-floryzh" occurs.Then, under the influence of the load, sooner or later there is a break of the ring and the exit of the nucleus outside the disc: the hernia itself is directly formed, which causes severe pain when the root nerve is damaged.

To identify the presence of osteochondrosis, especially in the early stages, when curvature does not give obvious external signs, it also determines its orientation and degree, it is necessary to make magnetic resonance images.This diagnostic method does not cause any damage to human health, unlike an X line, it also allows you to accurately determine the deviation angle.Based on the description of the images of radiologist and magnetic resonance, the specialist builds the correct treatment plan for the patient, which, of course, is the strengthening of the muscle corset.

When choosing a clinic to undergo a magnetic resonance of the exam, it is necessary, in the first place, to study the power of the equipment used and the grades of the employees of the clinic.

Types of spinal osteochondrosis

Osteochondrosis can be of several types:

• The cervical is the most common, as young and old
• Thoracic - is relatively rare
• Lumbar - It develops after 40 years
• Sacro: generally changing lumbar
• Common: It affects several departments or even the entire spine

In the same sequence, the spontaneous development of this disease often occurs: starting from the upper cervical vertebrae and ending with sacrum and coccygeal.

But it happens that the type of osteochondrosis is associated with human activity.Then, the cervical is usually common among students, designers and all other representatives of "brain" professions, in which the neck for a long time is in a constant tense state.Physical work employees, young athletes-athletes can have lumbar osteochondrosis, taxi drivers, shoemakers and other "sitting" specialties representatives, a plus sacral with a lumbar with a complete set.Hard of osteochondrosis is also often observed in Vete, that almost all day standing, since it is the sacrum that our body maintains vertically, and all the load falls on it during the foot or walk process.

The causes of the appearance and development of osteochondrosis

However, osteochondrosis is not just a disease of a sedentary lifestyle, an inappropriate posture or a consequence of weightlifting.There are many more factors and reasons for the origin of this ailment.I will highlight only the main one:

• Incorrect nutrition with an insufficient amount of proteins and increased sugar and fat
• Hormonal raped and imbalance metabolism
• Infectious diseases
• Hypothermia
• High weight and obesity
• Column injuries
• Bone degeneration of age
• Hereditary diseases
• Stress

The main symptoms of osteochondrosis

Cervical osteochondrosis:

1. Neck and head pain (you can give up under the shoulder blade, sternum and hand)
2. Dizziness, especially when changing the position in the head
3. Numbness in areas of the neck, face, tongue, underwater area

Thoracic osteochondrosis:

1. Chest pain that can be intensified in inhalation and moving
2. Numbness sensation in the chest

Lumbar-Cross:

1. The pain in the lower back (it can be acute or acute), which gives the legs, and the location of the pain in the legs can move along the total length of the limb

2. Legs (rape or even loss of sensitivity)

The pain for osteochondrosis is specific neurological.Therefore, headache, dizziness, numbness or legs on their legs tend to take as direct manifestations of head or leg disease, although these may be symptoms of vertebral osteochondrosis.Therefore, if you notice something anxious in your well -being, it coincides with the aforementioned signs, be sure to visit a neuropathologist.The doctor, having examined, suspected of this disease, will necessarily prescribe an X -Ray exam.

The main methods of treatment of osteochondrosis

The most effective removal of back pain:

1. Therapeutic gymnastics (back pain exercises)
2. Laser MLS (after the second session, the pain passes)
3. Hivamat (a unique procedure that relieves pain immediately, but we must be like 2-3 times).

The very elimination of the causes of the progression of osteochondrosis is the main method of its treatment and prevention.

Prevention and non -fidic treatment

This is first:

• Lifestyle and active sports (mobile)
• Normal nutrition with a protein diet excluding fats and sugar
• Medical Physical Education (Exercise Therapy) with a set of exercises selected individually for each type of osteochondrosis
• Physiotherapy (Magnetot therapy, ultrasound treatment, electrophoresis, laser therapy)
• MASSAGE, MANUAL AND REFLECTION

However, this conservative treatment method is adequate for prevention, to prevent the progression of osteochondrosis and not in the active period of the disease.But how to treat this ailment, if it is launched, its manifestations are obvious and a person has a stage of exacerbation, namely: precisely:

• High pain and temperature
• Limited, which are given with great difficulty, movements

In this case, exercise therapy and physiotherapy are categorically contraindicated and exclusively used drug methods.

Medication treatment methods

First, you must stop pain and relieve the inflammatory process in the nerve column, which is irritated.For this purpose, they are named:

• Non -steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs);Corticosteroids, Glucocorticoids IDR.(They are prescribed if Aine's operation is not enough)
• Novocaine block (with severe pain)
• preparations to eliminate muscle spasm;
• analgesics, gels and creams;

The second phase of the treatment includes:

• The use of vasodilators: osteochondrosis is always adjacent to the narrowing of blood vessels and the starvation of the brain of oxygen (therefore, headaches and dizziness) dizziness)
• The appointment of funds that relieve the nervous system: patients with this ailment are always alarming and suspicious, in most cases they are very scared by the first attacks of the disease.
• Treatment of concomitant phenomena: these can be hypertension and violation of cardiac activity
• A neuropathologist should be prescribed, in the form of drippers, injections and tablets.

Don't try to treat the disease yourself!

At the end of the acute period and the normalization of welcome, the return to preventive treatment methods that are not drilling: exercise therapy, massage and physiotherapy in the absence of contraindications for them.

Health for you!