Osteocondrosis

If your waist hurts, back or neck, it is difficult to correct, spinal crunches - Many people automatically diagnose themselves: "Of course - Osteocondrosis!"The reasons for this "disease" are extremely clear: we live in the twenty-first century, we move less, do not eat properly ...

But in reality, everything is a little more complicated.

What is this - spine osteocondrosis?How appropriate such a diagnosis?What happens in the spinal column?

From a scientific point of view, it is a degeneration of osteocondrosis (ie "aging and collapse", "by the way). By the way, the pathological process begins with intervertebral disks and gradually spreads to the intervert.

Osteocondrosis of the spine - Is there such a diagnosis?

In English-speaking drugs, this term shows a completely different group of disease with our "native" osteocondrosis.In the international classification of disease, a book belonging to the time of the diagnosis of all neurologists, "Osteookondrosis" in adults is "Osteookondrosis" and "Osteocondrosis of the spine" and "Osteocondrosis".

However, sometimes this diagnosis is not completely right, the doctor is not really able to fully understand what happened to the patient.This term may cover diseases as follows:

• Myofascial pain syndrome- a situation where the spasm is constantly occurring in the same muscles.
• Muscle injuries.After an injury, the pain begins to worry you and then goes to himself.
• Otolithiasis- a situation where calcium salt crystals are collecting in the inner ear.They cause dizziness - sometimes they make mistakes for the manifestation of spinal disease.
• Headache.They are also often associated with degenerative changes in cervical spine.In fact, there are more other reasons.

Treatment of spinal osteocondrosis

The set of standard treatment measures for the exacerbation of the disease looks like this:

• Anti-inflammatory and painkillers..
• If the pain is very severe and does not go- Novocaine blockades are used.A doctor armed with a needle and a syringe emphasizes anesthesia to special places where pain nerve impulses are prevented from transferring.
• Physiotherapy helps:Anesthesia, ultrasound, ultraviolet radiation, drug electrophorezia with diadynamic currents.
• If pain constantly forces you to be in nervous tension,Set the drugs to help calm you down.
• To the field of painDry heat is applied.
• To loosen the spine,Different types of traction are used.The patient can be placed on a special bed provided with a raised title and the rings provided with their arms.Underwater traction in the pool is also used.
• Your doctor may recommendYou need to visit a chiropractor, acupuncture sessions.
• During an operatingDress special orthopedic devices that help you to overcome muscles and support spinal - corsets, the collar.

When the screen transition, you must take action to prevent the new.Therapeutic exercises and massage strengthens the muscles that support the spine.Physiotherapy courses are assigned.Swimming is good for you.All treatment methods of osteochondrosis have the opposite instructions, they should be used intelligently, so it is not the best choice of medicine.Visit your doctor.

Sometimes the symptoms of the disease continue to grow, despite treatment, and the patient's condition is deteriorating.In this case, neurologist can raise the question of surgical treatment.

Why should you visit a doctor soon?First, the "real" osteocondrosis is not such a harmless disease.With time, if they are not treated, a person can be disabled.Second, symptoms can cause the same myofiasial pain syndrome - a neurologist will be able to quickly detect and eliminate the cause of pain. 

Back pain, according to statistics, more than 90% of people are a symptom that has experienced at least once in their lives.Belongs to most osteocondrosa.All people living in the spine are going to doctors.Many people treat themselves with drugs that can be obtained without a prescription with pharmacy or folk treatment.Sometimes such a "treatment" brings temporary relief, but in the meantime, the disease can continue to progress and maybe the back or lower back "twists" will be stronger.

An experienced neurologist will be able to properly assess the signs of osteocondrosis, to understand their reasons and determine the right treatment for osteocondrosis.

Pain can successfully successfully successfully successfully successfully successfully successfully successfully successfully successfully successful manifestation of osteochondrosis, painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs and some public therapy.But this does not solve the main problem;Pathological changes in the spine continue to rise.

Over time, this is a waste of control over the spinal cord and the development of serious neurological complications: severe weight loss, even full loss, sensitivity and sensitivity, bladder and rectum.

Which symptoms usually show itself as a spinal osteocondrosis?

A typical manifestation of the disease is pain.As a rule, painful, constantly concerned with a feeling of feeling that is worried about, in his arms and legs.Typically, pain intensifies, severe actions, heavy lifting, physical work, sneeze, cough and stay in length of time.

The muscles around the spine respond to pain.There are tensions in them.Therefore, the patient may be in an antalgic situation - the pain is one of the fact that it does not worry so much.Gradually, this leads to the curvature of the spine.

If the disease has not been treated over time, pain is strengthened and decreased.Other signs of osteocondrosis arise:

• Sensitivity is broken, the feeling of fictitious, tingling, and "creeping" arms and legs occur.
• The muscles of the fairness weakens and decrease in time - their atrophy develops.
• Patients with the osteochondrosis of cervical spine complain of headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, "spots" and bright spots in front of the eyes.
• The heart is anxious in the heart with the thoracic osteocondrosis.The person may encounter a sensation, "as if a share was inside the chest."
• Compressing the nervous roots of the spine (for example, when the occurrence of the broken disk, bones in the spines), heavy firing pain occurs.

The correct treatment of spinal osteocondrosis symptoms

The key to effective treatment is correct and timely diagnosed.During a neurological examination in the clinic, a specialist will appreciate the degree of impairment of your symptoms and certain nerve functions.

Here you can take the exam using new, modern equipment - it will help you understand the detail in your spinal columns, nerve roots, surrounding tissues and muscles.

The treatment is not against the signs of osteocondrosis.You should try to eliminate the cause and understand that you can keep the disease under control and avoiding progress.The neurologist will compile the correct treatment program and correct the changes in your situation.

To defeat the enemy, you should be able to look at him.This is the case in any diseases: a doctor helps a clear diagnosis of modern instrumental research and laboratory tests, to understand what is happening in the patient's body and determine the effective treatment for osteocondrosis.

The main manifestation of osteocondrosis is a symptom back pain that can occur with many other diseases.You need the help of a specialist to create an accurate cause and cope with it. 

Neurological examination in osteocondrosis diagnosis: What is the meeting in the office of the neurologist?

During the destination, your doctor will ask you a few questions:

• What complaints are bothering you?
• Where do pain usually occur?
• How long does the pain last?How strong is he?
• What is the nature of the pain: stabbing, firing, pain, do they do?
• When do your symptoms usually take place?What provokes them?
• When and when do you feel better?

Then the doctor will examine a neurological examination that inspects sensitivity of your skin, muscle strength and tone, reflexes, feelings and coordinations of actions.The neurologist can press concrete points near your waist to determine the pain.After that, an examination program will be assigned to clarify the diagnosis.

Our neurologists work in accordance with the same standards: they will study carefully, they will not miss anything and determine all the necessary tests.

What diagnostic methods are used for osteocondrosis?

Most, the following diagnostic methods are set for osteocondrosis:

• Radiography.At least two forecasts are carried out: Frontal and profile.If necessary, the photographs are drawn in other positions.
• X-Ray Contrast Studies.To better explore pathological changes in the spinal column, you can be shot on the spinal canal (myelography), intervertebral disk (discography) and a contrast agent solution within blood vessels (angiography).These studies are made only for special instructions.
• Calculated Tomography.Helps to explore the bone structures in more detail compared to radiography, the height and vertebrate of intervertebral disk.
• Magnetic Resonance Image.Helps reveal changes in soft tissues with high accuracy.

Your doctor can also appoint other diagnostic methods for osteocondrosis.The specialist will be sure to meet the doctor and pass all the necessary tests to cope with unnecessary procedures.

Prevention of osteocondrosis

Follow these recommendations to protect your back health:

• Nutrition should be complete.
• Need permanent physical activity.If you have chronic diseases, consult with your doctor and ask them to recommend the appropriate gymnastics complex.
• Protect a normal weight - it will only help prevent osteocondrosis and other "wounds".
• If you have a seat, take a break more often to walk and stretch.
• Lift weights correctly.Don't bend on the waist.Hold your rear straight - your feet should do business.

Osteochondrosis reports a group of diseases called "degenerative pathologies".In other words, these are "obsolete", intervertebral disks and joints themselves are diseases "old" (age "(this is not a clear explanation, but helps to imitate the spinal column).So what causes it to wear and tear ahead?

Why does osteocondrosis take place?

Spinal osteochondrosis is a disease that does not have a special reason.Various factors cause him to happen:

• Injuries.Osteochondrosis can be a loud voice of the previously suffering fracture or ligament loss.
• Microtraumas.Stay in a position that often causes similar movements in the spine column, in a monotonous condition.
• Congenital anomalies of the spine.They are different: Changes in the number of spines in the spines in the backgrounds, waist and sacral region, changes in the wrong place in the waist region.When a person does not suspect his whole life, one of these conditions, when he was "patient", when anomalia was discovered during the investigation.
• Otoimmune TermsImmune cells on intervertebral disks appear on intervertebral disks attacking their tissues of the body.
• Break the circulation of the blood.The tissues of the spine stop buying a rich body with the necessary amount of oxygen.

Does most osteocondrosis live?

Certain conditions help with spinal problems:

• Sedentary lifestyle, low physical activity.Office workers are at the bottom of the growing risk.
• Overweight.Each extra kilogram oftraction gives stress to the spinal column.
• Excessive physical activity.Excessive loading during exercise in athletes.
• Poor nutrition.Vertebrae should receive "building material" - the necessary substances for ligaments and muscles.
• Previous injuries neck, back, lower back.
• Untreated postural diseases, scoliosis.
• Stay continuously, often run in a disturbed position when you have to stand or sit in a long-term position.
• If you have close relatives with osteocondrosis, your risks are also growing.

What happens to the spine during osteocondrosis?

The development of osteocondrosis is primarily based on the intervertebral disk "wear and tear".Its structure changes to the molecular level.Initially, the intervertebral disk was inflated, then "dries", reduces height, starts out of the vertebral body and appears in the exterior of the ramp and tears.Through them, the ships grow inside, the disk is more denser and calcification begins.Vertebra is empty.

Next, the degenerative process spreads to the spines and spread into intervies.The muscles covering the affected part of the spine are constantly tension and they have compactes.

In order to compensate the growing load in Vertabra, the end of the bones (osteophytes) increase their surfaces.

Depending on where pathological changes occur, the cervical, thoracum and waist are different from osteocondrosis.Two or all three sections may be more than one affected.