Often the head hurts, dizziness: we think it's an emicranium or "for time".Pinched in the heart?Miner.Tingling or numbness in your hands: you have to sit on the computer, move more.But the cause of these, at first glance, not the related symptoms can be the spine.More precisely, its highest section is cervical.
Neck.What do we know?
The cervical column is the most mobile and vulnerable part of the spine, which allows you to perform inclinations and turns of the head.It consists of 7 vertebrae, among which there are elastic intervertebral discs.The blood vessels pass that "nourish" the brain and provide it oxygen.The nerve terms associated with the spinal cord (within the spine) give impulses and signals to other organs of the body.As a result, the body works harmoniously.If the vertebrates due to metabolic disorders are deformed, they can squeeze nerve ending or a blood vessel, a person experiences pain.It is the pain that is the main symptoms of a disease such as osteochondosis of the cervical column.
Cervical osteochondosis is dangerous
- Osteochondrosis of the cervical region is considered one of the most insidious diseases.Due to the fact that the cervical vertebrae are very close to each other, with the slightest deformation, the nerve roots and the blood vessels are crushed.The flow of brain blood is disturbed.As a result - headaches, up to migraines.With a neglected shape, brain ischemia or spinal cord, even a stroke.
- The cardiovascular system can also be at risk.Augmented or reduced pressure, pain in the heart is not always a cardiological pathology.You can "break down" the pressure for years, to be observed by a cardiologist and the cervical osteochondosis can be the cause of such heart disorders.
- Due to the compression of the nerve terms, hearing, vision and even the coordination of movements can suffer.
Symptoms of osteochondosis of the neck:
- pain.This can be a slight neck pain, especially when turning or after sleep.With cervical osteochondrosis, the pain can be "given" to the occipital hour and behind.When the head is inclined forward, pain can also occur under the spatula.Even the headache and migraines are not rare in this disease.Unpleasant sensations, tingling or numbness in the arm, shoulder, shoulder blades, neck.Crystalline in the neck when turning the head.
- Noise and ringing in the ears.Perhaps an hearing deterioration.
- Nausea, lack of air.The breathing difficulty is observed, it is impossible to breathe in full chest, which leads to the hunger for body oxygen.
- Visual compromise.The sharpness of visual acuity, cloud, "flies" in front of the eyes.
- The instability of blood pressure.Past or reduced pressure.Vertigini.
- An interesting fact.Over 80% of the population complains of neck pain and 30% of headaches are associated with cervical osteochondosis.
The causes of cervical osteochondosis
Osteochondrosis, in particular osteochondrosis of the neck, is young today.We move less: we create more problems for the spine.If the elderly people found this problem before, today a 20-30 year old patient complains of back pain and neck, you will not surprise the doctor.
The most common reasons:
- Sitting lifestyle
- Insufficient physical activity
- Excess weight, metabolic violation
- Bad habits: alcohol consumption, smoke
- incorrect sleep: pillow and mattress selected incorrectly
- Loads of the neck associated with a long -term forced body position
- Lessons
How to treat cervical osteochondosis
The first manifestations of osteochondosis of the neck are easy to confuse with a cold with a cold with a coldBanal or fatigue: heaviness in the back of the head, headache, discomfort when turning the neck.Symptoms of which many complain, but do not suspect a real diagnosis - osteochondosis of the cervical region.But this is the insidious disease: it is easily progressing and, in advanced cases, the treatment is long and expensive.
The symptoms of the disease are directly associated with the violation of the roots of the spinal cord or the compression of the blood vessels or the spinal cord.First of all, you have to contact a specialist, not car -edy.For the correct diagnosis, the doctor may prescribe further research methods, including radiography, magnetic resonance imaging, CT.
In the early stages, manual therapy, therapeutic gymnastics will be sufficient.This is the therapy so called and delicate.
Injections, prescription of drugs
In the inflammatory process, mediators (substances that form in large quantities at the center of inflammation) can damage nerve fibers, causing discomfort and neck pain.In complex therapy, it is important not only to remove pain syndrome, the inflammatory process, but also create conditions for the regeneration of damaged tissues, including nervous ones.To launch these processes, preparations are used with group B vitamins - Vitamins B1 - improves the nutrition of nerve tissues, restores their normal sensitivity, vitamin B6 improves the functioning of the nervous system as a whole, has a general strengthening effect.There is a form of vitamin B1 soluble in water and fat.The effect of benfotiamine (fat and disabled) is 5-10 times higher than thiamine (soluble in water).Due to the analgesic effect, these vitamins are called "new analgesics".In the treatment of osteocondrosis, doctors can recommend group B vitamins both in the form of injections and in the form of tablets.
When they are detected hernias in the cervical region, a protrusion may be necessary to resort to surgery.What is important?After the main course of the treatment, the care of the spine is a task n.1. Adequate physical activity, nutrition, gymnastics should be constant of your companions.