Cervical osteochondrosis is a common pathology associated with the destruction of cartilage in the joints of the cervical column.
The signs of cervical osteochondrosis occur more often in the interval between 20 and 40 years, this disease explains headaches in a third of cases.If you do not prescribe treatment in time, the disease will enter the advanced phase and, most likely, will cause an intervertebral disc hernia or intervertebral protrusion.
A significant problem is that due to the contradictory symptoms of the cervical osteocondrosis, a diagnosis can be difficult.Some characteristics of the course of the disease, which will be discussed further, can lead to the fact that the patient will go to the doctor in a timely manner, which will complicate the diagnosis of osteochondosis of the neck and its further treatment.
Very often, acute cervical osteochondosis develops when a person leads a sedentary lifestyle and, at the moment, with the development of technology and science, there is a gradual transition of humanity from mainly physical work to the intellectual (respectively, to a lifestyle in session), it is not surprising that this disease is widespread today.
In addition, the signs of osteochondosis of the neck will be examined in detail, as well as their differences with respect to the symptoms that accompany this disease with damage to other departments of the spine.
The causes of this disease are the deposit of salts in the cervical column during constant work on the computer or guiding a car, metabolic disorders, inactive lifestyle and malnutrition.
The disease can also be caused by systemic lupus erythematosus, neck lesions, hypothermia, heredity, hormonal disorders and rheumatism.
Symptoms of osteochondosis of the neck and several groups of signs
Before moving on to a more detailed consideration of symptoms, it is necessary to know a certain series of general signs of the disease.
Therefore, the general symptoms of cervical osteochondosis are expressed:
- Pain to the cervical departments and behind, in the hands and in the back of the head, and painful manifestations have improved also with weak loads, during sneezing or cough attacks;
- pain and creak in the neck when trying to turn the head;
- with numbness and tingling in the limbs, burning the rear area, near the shoulder blades and between them;
- headache that start from the occipital region and spread to the crown and temples;
- dizziness and fainting with sharp turns of the head;
- Weakness and fatigue, quick fatigue.
The remaining symptoms are expressed by making pain in the heart and noise in the ears, the patient does not feel well, his vision can decrease.
All these processes can occur in parallel with other clinical signs.
Considering traditional pain in the neck sometimes adjacent to symptoms that are not atypical for osteochondrosis that are not associated with this disease.For example, few will confront the osteochondosis of the weakness of the neck in the legs, the elite pain or the worsening of the vision - and the article has the purpose of telling the symptoms of this disease as accessible as possible.
To understand how osteochondosis of the neck is manifested, it is necessary to divide the cervical osteochondrosis syndromes into three groups, which will depend on the involvement in the pathology of the central nervous system.
The first group usually includes neurological characteristics considered as complications of the disease that arise due to the influence of pathological processes on the peripheral region of the nervous system.
The second group is considered symptoms, which can occur only under the influence of the disease on the spinal cord.
The third group includes symptoms associated with processes that occur during cervical osteochondrosis in the brain.
In short we can say this: the first group includes signs responsible for sick manifestations, the second - for motor disorders, the third - of pathological effects on ships.
Symptoms can manifest themselves separately or in the combination of these groups, but usually one of them is dominant.
Signs that belong to the first group of the disease
What symptoms are pronounced with cervical osteochondrosis in this case?As has been said, this group includes pain, which can manifest itself due to the defeat of the pathological process of the peripheral section of the nervous system.
Painful manifestations in the neck, roots of the cervical and lateral region are also symptoms of this group, which is also characterized by chest pain, muscles and joints.
Neck pain is the first symptom of the osteochondrosis of the neck and manifests itself in almost all patients.More often it starts in the morning and intensifies when a person turns around, causes laughter, cough, sneezing, a turning point of the neck.Pain usually drives, stupid, sometimes shooting, located inside the neck, but occasionally spreads in the shoulder region.
These pains can occur periodically or constantly last, they are different in duration and strength.
Sometimes the painful manifestations are acute, but they are expressed differently by they can be warned by the "current blow", and at the same time someone feels a pain in the shot that is performing, everything individually.
The neck muscles can be tense and therefore it becomes difficult to breathe.In addition, during the acute obsteen period of the neck, the patient takes some poses: he keeps his head, tilting it forward and on the side, and it is very difficult for him to rotate with her during the bastards.
Frequent symptoms are noise phenomena, they can occur when trying to turn the head, expressed by crunch and crackling.This is what indicates the abandonment of the disease.
Sometimes people believe that the disease is triggered by the wrong position in a dream, hypothermia, sharp turns of the head and loading on the neck.
Factors and signs that accompany the symptoms of the first group
The factors listed above can really cause pain, but more often they only aggravate the existing symptoms of the disease, since the main causes of osteochondosis of the cervical column is not.
Pain and cervical blows are not all the symptoms of this group, with the exception of them, different types of root of the neck and shoulder region, which caused the painful manifestations of the upper cervical region and the back of the head.
The pain intensifies during the rotation of the head, sometimes even passes to the belt and arms, causes tension in the muscles associated with the nerve roots.Very often, they suffer in the sixth and seventh departments due to squeezing the vertebrae.The pathology of the sixth department leads to pain in the forearm and thumb, the seventh - to painful events in the middle finger.Rare for this disease, the damage to the eighth department is framed of the spread of pain in the little finger.
With the lesions of the upper vertebrae and cervical discs, the occipital nerve is included in the painful processes, which is full of new pains that are constant.Sometimes these pains become stronger and therefore the sensitivity of the neck is lost, you can even find a sore point that looks like a small seal.
Since the changes begin in the neck, due to the compromised blood intake, cervical vegetative formations can suffer.The symptom as burning pain is united, which becomes stronger during physical and emotional stress or when the weather conditions move.In addition, the color of the hands and hands changes, it appears swelling, the skin becomes pale and thin, becoming cold.Furthermore, the disappearance of sensitivity to the touch, or vice versa, to its strengthening.Tachycardia combines, pain in the heart, the pupils change.
Further signs relating to the first group
The osteochondrosis of the neck is also manifested by the discomfort in the hands (usually this happens at night).This is called Notine, the diagnosis is usually made after forty years to those whose lifestyle is associated with various physical activities.
The additional signs of the first group are tingling and numbness of bones, pain and discomfort in the hands and since the attacks occur more often at night, a dream is disturbed due to them.
The symptoms of this group reach its peak when strong degenerative changes occur in the neck and vertebrae, which indicates the pathologies of the autonomous nervous system.This is due to the fact that the vegetative nodes located too close to the spine are not sufficiently equipped with blood.
This disease sometimes contributes to the occurrence of crooked, since the frequent satellites of osteochondrosis are muscle cramps that occur during the slopes of the head and the rotation of the neck.At the same time, a person cannot turn the head normally due to the increase in pain in the back of the head or the shoulder stumps.
The pain between the fingers and the pallor of the skin come together if the vases are crushed, the blood flow is disturbed or the wrist in the radial artery is weakened.
Another complication is periactrity -full full of shoulder, which occurs due to a violation of the shoulder bond and spatula sections with the central nervous system.As a result - Distros changes, over time they only increase.
The main problem is that these pathologies occur secretly for a long time and the patient may not notice them.
The main symptoms are in joint pain without cause, which manifests itself, as already noticed, at night.You can feel painful places and the kidnapping of the hands on the side causes acute pain.
Since the patient will try not to disturb the limb in order not to feel more pain, due to the inactivity in the joints, the effect of a "frozen shoulder" can be formed and if the treatment will not start over time, a person will not be able to raise a hand over the horizontal level.
What are the signs of the second group of this disease?
The symptoms of cervical osteochondosis that occur due to the pathologies of the spinal cord are the symptoms of the second group.Symptoms can lead to the compression produced by a octopous nucleus that falls from the disc due to its softening or due to the injury of the spinal cord.
Often, the weakness of the limbs is combined with these symptoms, there is a muscle tone reduced in the hands, but on the contrary, it has increased in the legs, but it is not observed losing weight.Sometimes painless grunt of the muscles develop (it usually occurs after forty years, less often after fifty -cinque and almost never in his youth).Similar complications are found in those people who have an anamnesis of atherosclerosis or arrhythmias.
The spinal cord (with problems with the disc between the fifth and the sixth vertebra) can bear the change called myelopathy.Typically, this pathology occurs due to spine or over -intention lesions, which have touched the shoulder muscles, but sometimes stress or alcohol poisoning can be the main cause.
There are also these clinical manifestations that proceed without increasing the temperature or loss of sensitivity, which is why a person ceases to feel an annoying effect that can somehow on the skin of the neck, arms and chest.In addition, broken or painful pain can occur, the patient's hands wear.
The osteochondrosis of the cervical vertebra is also characterized by the "semiconductor disorders syndrome" which occurs when the parts of the spinal cord are poorly supplied with blood.As a result, when walking or standing, the legs are very tired.Sometimes the brushes are occasionally insensitive - feet, the discomfort may appear in them.Coordination is also possible, especially if the patient closes his eyes.
Despite the certain frequency of the manifestation of these signs, they will not without the patient with the opportunity to work and a person will be able to conduct a normal lifestyle.
Which signs belong to the third group of this disease?
The symptoms and signs of the third group refer to the brain manifestations of the disease that appear due to an insufficient blood flow in the system, which is responsible for ensuring that blood in sufficient quantities and over time falls into the compartments of the spinal cord.This system is made up of the main ships as vertebral arteries.
What syndromes characterize this group of symptoms?
Hypotalamic syndrome in the osteochondrosis of the cervical column is often found, its symptoms are the instability of mood, irritability and high effort, anxiety, resentment, sleep disorder (the patient does not fall asleep well, rises with the feeling that he has not slept).Furthermore, the opportunity to focus is lost, problems with memory and discomfort begins in everything.Occasionally, desire, anger, fear without cause, anxiety can unite.The skin becomes pale, the limbs are cold, the patient increases sweating, the pressure often increases, but appetite and sexual desire are reduced.
Drops syndrome is characterized by fainting attacks without cause (sometimes with loss of consciousness, sometimes without it), the reason for this are vascular cramps.Consciousness returns almost immediately if the patient is posing and lowering his head.After weakness, a sense of breakage can occur, they join the headache.
The signs of the vestibular barrel syndrome at the beginning of the disease are dizziness, which appears due to an insufficient blood supply, attacks of nausea and vomiting, disconcerting during the walk.
The symptoms of coclear barrel syndrome syndrome and noise in the ears, usually on the one hand, can reduce hearing, empty cavity.Usually this syndrome follows from the previous one, but its independent event is also possible.It is difficult to understand the diagnosis of cervical osteochondrosis with these signs.
With a pharyngeone-minuto syndrome, there is the feeling that there is a foreign object in the throat, other signs and itching in the throat, the voice becomes deaf, the larynx of the sorcerers and the pain occurs in it and in the throat.The patient gets tired during a conversation, he needs a holiday, moreover, it is difficult to swallow thick foods, spasms of the esophagus are observed.A short -term rest can save these events.
The symptoms of visual disorders are expressed by disorders - fog in front of the eyes, a decrease in vision.
What is the danger of the disease?
If an adequate treatment are not diagnosed over time, when signs of osteochondrosis of the cervical column appear, then radicolopathy can start, in which the nerve roots are affected and the patient loses mobility, but the greatest danger is to compress the spinal cord, which can lead to death.
With osteochondrosis of the neck, the most dangerous form of this disease, brain circulation can be disturbed, due to which migraine, hypertension, vegetable dystonia, pathology of cardiovascular and respiratory systems, will begin vision problems, hearing and coordination.The racing shapes of the disease lead to the vertebral artery syndrome, which provides blood of the oblong brain and cerebellum, and if the artery is crushed, then the ischemia of the brain or spinal cord can start, these manifestations can cause a spinal stroke.
Do not leave such a dangerous disease as cervical osteocondrosis without attention, since the consequences can influence the ability to work and lifestyle in general and, if the first symptoms appear, it is necessary to immediately seek the help of a specialist.How to treat the osteochondosis of the cervical column, the attending physician decides after an in -depth examination.