Osteochondrosis is a common pathology of the spine, characterized by a dystrophic change in the structure of cartilage discs of the vertebrae and their bone. To one degree or another, osteochondrosis occurs in most people after 30 years. The symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis are varied, which often complicates the diagnosis and subsequent treatment.
This process affects one of the spine or several at a time. The lumbar and cervical vertebrae are most affected by pathologies, as most susceptible to load due to the anatomy of the human skeleton. The effects of spinal osteochondrosis in the cervical region cause the most discomfort and potential complications, since the neck is a zone rich in neuromusive highways, many of which feed the brain directly.
For this reason, clinical symptoms with cervical osteochondrosis are very associated with ischemia of the brain areas. In addition, the nerve roots that ensure the sensitivity and motor activity of the hands and the shoulder girdle, when pressed with destroyed spinal animals, can give a variety of symptomatic picture.
The signs of osteochondrosis of the neck depend on which of the body systems is influenced by pathology:
Below, think about the General Osteochondrosis Clinic of the cervical spine.
This is the most common symptom. Pain localization can be extended, affecting the shoulders, collarbone, breasts passing into intense migraine of the head. The nature of the pain depends on the location of the lesion and the severity of the pathology. At first, the pain can be quickly transient, gradually becoming chronic, sick. At times of exacerbation, the pain becomes firing, with an increased tone of the neck muscles and limited movement of the head.
Often pain with cervical osteochondrosis can be localized behind the sternum, in which case many patients take this symptom of angina pectoris. Differentiation can be performed by taking a pill of nitroglycerin - pain due to osteochondrosis, they are not eliminated.
These symptoms often join the hearing reduction. These phenomena are associated with a decrease in blood flow from the arteries of the vertebrae to vestibular. The complex of these symptoms is called cochlear or snail syndrome and it is far from always possible to determine its relationship with osteochondrosis in the cervical region. A specific characteristic of differentiation is that noise, congestion and ringing in the ears are felt when the position is changed, after a long stay in one position.
Dizziness is also due to a violation of blood flow to the organs of the inner ear, which guarantees the balance of the body. Nystagma often joins dizziness - arbitrary fluctuations in eye students to the countries.
This sensation occurs due to irritation of the edges of the diaphragmatic nerve. It is a component of the cervical nerve beam and is involved in the regulation of breathing, its depth and frequency. Patients complain about the inability to breathe in the full breast. In some cases, the symptom worsens to severe shortness of breath and suffocation. For the same reason, breathing stops at night and snore. The disadvantage of oxygen due to breathing problems is ultimately the cause of increased fatigue, reducing concentration and memory problems.
It is accompanied by landing. Also due to blood circulation problems in some areas of the brain and inner ear. Sometimes nausea is observed with unbreakable vomiting, which is caused by movements of the head and body. The consequence of frequent nausea and vomiting is a reduction in appetite, weight loss, valuable deficiency.
"Flies" in the eyes, reduction of visual acuity, fog in front of the eyes - these are all symptoms due to ischemia of the brain area responsible for vision. Patients with osteochondrosis complain more than vision, as the lack of blood supply from the vertebrae is offset by the flow of blood from the carbon arteries system. Glasses and therapeutic gymnastics for the eye muscles do not solve the problem, usually vision improves after the treatment of osteochondrosis.
What are the most important symptoms of osteochondrosis are briefly told in this video:
The unstable pressure level is due to impaired blood flow to the elongated brain, which is responsible for the functions of the vascular-motor center.
It occurs with spasm of the arteries of the brain due to the short -term stopping of the blood flow along the spinal arteries. From the state of loss of the patient's consciousness, you can quickly remove it by placing it so that the legs are slightly higher than the head - blood flow to the brain allows a person to lead to life. After a fainted attack, reversible problems with speech and movement due to a brief stop of blood flow, they can be observed for some time.
Often this may be the only sign showing cervical osteochondrosis. They are expressed as sweating, dryness and a lump in the throat, difficulty in swallowing. The symptoms are related to the compression of the nerve plexus responsible for the innervation of the pharynx. It is necessary to distinguish similar manifestations from such a clinic for inflammation or neoplasms.
Increasing body temperature for cervical osteochondrosis is not the most typical symptom, it is rarely and locally observed: in the area of the cervix and collar with a slight redness of the skin.
The clinic of osteochondrosis in the cervical spine may be first of varying degrees of severity, it depends on the stage of development of pathology, also during periods of exacerbation, they are more bright and second, to form in certain syndromes.
Stage I.
The beginning of degenerative processes in the cartilage of the vertebrae. The symptoms are weak, sometimes they cannot be observed at all. The first signs of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine:
Important: These symptoms become more pronounced when head tilted.
As a rule, in the first stage of osteochondrosis of the cervical region, patients do not go to the doctor, believing that all symptoms are associated with fatigue, stress, age, lack of sleep.
Stage II
At this stage, the bulge of the vertebrates began, the intervertebral cracks were narrow, the fiber of the fibrous ring of the collagen disc was destroyed. There are noticeable painful symptoms of point nature due to the compression of the nerve trunks that increase during the movements of the neck and turns of the head. Here you can now suspect the cervical osteochondrosis, the symptoms of which in the second stage are as follows:
a pronounced neck pain, sometimes with a crunch; The skin of the shoulders and hands loses the sensitivity almost completely; The headache is common, do not go for a long time; visual damage with "flies" in the eyes; ringing and tinnitus; weakness of the upper limbs muscles; The clarity of tendon reflexes is reduced; shooting pain with dedication under the shoulder blade; the feeling of a lump in the throat, problems with swallowing; Sleep disorders, usually insomnia. Long holding of the head in one position leads to severe pain. At this stage of the development of the disease, patients already come to the doctor for help.
Stage III
The fibrous ring in the disc is destroyed, hernias are formed. In the third stage there is deformity of the spine, displacement and dislocations of the vertebrae due to their poor fixation. Symptoms are as follows:
Intense, acute neck pain, collar area, heart area; The sensitivity of the scalp on the back of the head, in the area of the shoulder, in the hands, until the complete absence of; hernia of the cervical spine; Paresis and paralysis of the upper limbs; Tensile reflexes are practically not observed. This is a severe stage of the disease in which the patient is no longer able to support his head alone. Ischemia of the spinal cord and compression of the arteries of the spine lead to complete inability to move and reduce the forces in the muscles in other parts of the body, as well as to a disturbed spinal cord.
How to treat osteochondrosis of the uterus The described condition of the spine is a very serious pathology, which with neglect leads to damage and as a result of deep disorders of cerebral circulation - and death. For this reason, through suicide in the case of such symptoms, you should not do. Osteochondrosis is treated at a hospital and at home exclusively as a prescription. At the initial stages, the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis is conservative, including prescriptions of drugs: non -steroidal anti -inflammatory drugPain, improves soft tissue trophies and cartic inflammation.
In the acute period, the drugs are prescribed in the form of injections as the pain disappears, the patient goes to tablets. Physiotherapy, massage, exercise for exercise, usually prescribed at the remission stage, join the drug courses. In difficult cases, osteochondrosis is treated with surgery.
