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Another serious disease of our time is osteochondrosis.His first signs can appear in his youth, while suddenly, with a long base on the computer or above the notebook, suddenly, at the beginning, he begins to be just discomfort, then pain in the seventh cervical vertebra.Soon, the pain becomes as difficult to turn your head or "tear up" from the pillow.After a few days, exacerbation generally passes, and before the next attack could spend several months, perhaps years.However, will not flatter!The first attack is a serious warning that the destructive dystrophic changes mechanism in your body has already been launched.To understand this, let's discover what osteochondrosis is and why you should start treating it from the first symptoms.

What is osteochondrosis?

Osteochondrosis is complex dystrophic changes in the spine in which these stages can be distinguished:

1. Dystrophic changes in the cartilaginous tissue of the intervertebral drawbacks, following constrained movements and cause feelings of discomfort (stage I)
2. Deformation of the drink and gradual decrease in the intervertebral distance (stage II).
3. The formation of an intervertebral hernia (Stade III)
4. The formation of points (osteophytes) and the ossification of ligaments, which makes movement very difficult and painful (stage IV)

The formation of a hernia is a complex process to which entire sections will be devoted.However, you should now know that such serious illness occurs if osteochondrosis does not treat over time.Therefore, so that you have an idea of what a hernia is, we will talk about it in two words.To do this, you will have to turn to anatomy for a short time, and you remember the device of the spine and the vertebral disc.

The distribution of the vertebral disc leads to a weakening of its fibrous ring and to the displacement of the main shock absorber of the disc (nucleus), following which the swelling formation (protruding), or the so-called "pre-Gryzh", occurs.Then, under the influence of the load, sooner or later, there is a rupture of the ring and the exit of the nucleus outside the disc - the hernia itself forms directly, which causes intense pain when the radicular nerve is damaged.

In order to identify the presence of osteochondrosis, in particular at the early stages, when the curvature does not give obvious external signs, also determine its orientation and its degree, it is necessary to make magnetic resonance imaging.This diagnostic method does not harm human health, unlike an X -ray, also allows you to precisely determine the angle of deviation.Based on the description of radiologist and MRI images, the specialist builds the right treatment plan for the patient, which, of course, is the strengthening of the muscle corset.

When choosing a clinic to undergo an MRI of the examination, it is necessary, first of all, to study the power of the equipment used and the qualifications of the employees of the clinic.

Types of vertebral osteochondosis

Osteochondrosis can be of several types:

• The cervical is the most common because young people and the elderly
• Thoracic - is relatively rare
• Lumbar - develops after 40 years
• Sacred - generally passing from lumbar
• Common - Assys several departments or even the whole spine

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

But sometimes the type of osteochondrosis is associated with human activity.Thus, the cervical is generally common among students, designers and all other representatives of the "brain" professions, in which the neck is long in a constant state.Employees of the physical workforce, youth athletes of youth can have lumbar osteochondosis, taxi drivers, shoemakers and other representatives of "seated" specialties-a sacred plus with a lumbar with a cervical-one whole!Hard osteochondosis is also often observed in Vete, which is almost all day on its feet, because it is the sacrum that holds our body in the vertical position, and the whole load falls there during the position or walking process

The causes of the appearance and development of osteochondrosis

However, osteochondrosis is not only a disease of a sedentary lifestyle, poor posture or a consequence of weight lifting.There are many more factors and reasons for the origin of this disease.I will only emphasize the principal:

• Incorrect nutrition with an insufficient amount of protein and an increase in sugar and fat
• Metabolism violated and hormonal imbalance
• Infectious diseases
• Hypothermia
• High weight and obesity
• Spine injuries
• Age bone degeneration
• Hereditary diseases
• Stress

The main symptoms of osteochondrosis

Cervical osteochondosis:

1. Pain in the neck and in the head (can give under the scapula, to the sternum and by hand)
2. Dizziness, especially when you change the position in the head
3. Numbness in areas of the neck, face, tongue, the underwater area

Thoracic osteochondosis:

1. Chest pain that can intensify on inhalation and during the trip
2. Feeling of numbness in the chest

Lumbar stock::

1. Pain in the lower back (can be acute or sharp), which gives the legs, and the location of the pain in the legs can move over the entire length of the limb length

2. Legs (violation or even loss of sensitivity)

The pain for osteochondrosis is specific neurological.Thus, headaches, dizzy, numbness or legs in the legs tend to take head or leg diseases as direct manifestations, although it can be symptoms of vertebral osteochondosis.Therefore, if you notice something concern in your well-being, coinciding with the listed signs, be sure to visit a neuropathologist.The doctor, having examined, with suspicion of this disease, will necessarily prescribe an X-ray examination.

The main methods of treatment of osteochondrosis

The most effective elimination of back pain:

1. Therapeutic gymnastics (exercises for back pain)
2. Laser MLS (after the 2nd session, 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 osteochondosis is the main method of its treatment and its prevention.

Non -medicine prevention and treatment

It is first of all:

• Active lifestyle and sports (mobile)
• Normal nutrition with a protein diet excluding fat and sugar
• Medical physical education (exercise therapy) with an individually selected exercise set for each type of osteochondrosis
• Physiotherapy (magnetot therapy, ultrasound treatment, electrophoresis, laser therapy)
• Massage, manual and reflexology

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

• High pain and temperature
• limited, which is given with great difficulty, the movements

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

Medication treatment methods

First of all, you should stop the pain and relieve the inflammatory process in the nerve spine, which is irritated.To this end, they are named:

• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs);Corticosteroids, glucocorticoids Idr.(They are prescribed if the functioning of NSAIDs is not enough)
• Novocaine blockade (with intense pain)
• preparations to eliminate muscle spasms;
• pain relievers, gels and creams;

The second phase of treatment includes:

• The use of vasodilators: osteochondrosis is always adjacent to the narrowing of blood vessels and the brain oxygen famine (hence headaches and dizziness)
• The appointment of funds which soothe the nervous system: patients with this disease are always alarming and suspect, in most cases, they are very frightened by the first attacks of the disease.
• Treatment of concomitant phenomena - it may be hypertension and violation of cardiac activity
• The treatment must be prescribed to you a neuropathologist, in the form of drops, injections and tablets

Do not try to treat the disease yourself!

At the end of the acute period and the normalization of well-being, return to non-anti-drug preventive treatment methods: exercise therapy, massage and physiotherapy in the absence of contraindications for them.

Health for you!