Often the head hurts, dizziness - we think it is either a migraine or "for the weather".Wanted in the heart?Bergmann.Tingling or numbness in your hands - you have to sit less on the computer and move more.But the cause of these symptoms, at first glance, can be their spine.More precisely, its highest section of the cervix is.
Neck.What do we know?It consists of 7 vertebrae between which there are elastic intervertebral discs.They pass blood vessels that "nourish" the brain and supply it with oxygen.Nervous endings connected to the spinal cord (the inside of the spine) give other organs of the body impulses and signals.As a result, the body works harmoniously.If the vertebrate is deformed due to metabolic disorders, you can press the nerve endings or a blood vessel, one person has pain.It is the pain that is the main symptoms of such disease as osteochondrosis of the cervical spine.
As a cervical osteochondrosis, it is dangerous
Osteochondrosis of the cervical region is one of the most insidious diseases.Due to the fact that the cervical vertebrae with the slightest deformation are very close together, the nerve roots and blood vessels are pressed.The brain's blood supply is disturbed.As a result - headache up to migraines.With a neglected form, ischemia of the brain or spinal cord, even a stroke.
- The cardiovascular system can also be at risk.Increased or reduced pressure, pain in the heart is not always cardiological pathology.You can "reflect" the pressure for years, be observed by a cardiologist, and cervical osteochondrosis can be the cause of such heart diseases.
- Due to the compression of the nerve endings, hearing aids, eyesight and even coordination of movements suffer.
Symptoms of neck osteochondrosis:
- Pain.This can be a slight pain in the neck, especially when turning or after sleep.With cervical osteochondrosis, pain on the occipital lesson and shoulders can be “given”.If the head is inclined to the front, pain can also occur under the spatula.Headaches and migraines are not uncommon in this disease.Unpleasant sensations, tingling or deafness in the arm, shoulder, shoulder blades, neck.Crystal in the neck when you turn your head.
- Noise and ring in your ears.Maybe a deterioration in hearing.
- Nausea, lack of air.Difficulties in breathing are observed, it is impossible to breathe in full chest, which leads to the oxygen hunger of the body.
- Visual impairment.The sharpness of visual acuity, cloudy, "flies" in front of the eyes.
- The instability of blood pressure.Passed or reduced pressure.Dizziness.
- An interesting fact.More than 80% of the population complain about pain in the neck, and 30% of the headache are associated with cervical osteochondrosis.
The causes of cervical osteochondrosis
Osteochondrosis, especially osteochondrosis of the Neck, is young today.We move less - we create more problems for the spine.If older people have taken up this problem earlier, today a 20 to 30-year-old patient who complains about back pain and neck, they will not surprise the doctor.
The most common reasons:
- Sitting lifestyle
- Inadequate physical activity
- overweight, metabolic injury
- bad habits: alcohol consumption, smoking
- false sleep: incorrectly selected pillow and mattress
- neck loads in connection with long -term forced body position
- how to treat cervical osteochondrosis
The first manifestations of the osteochondrosis of the neck are easy with aTo confuse banal colds or fatigue: heavy in the back of the head, headache, symptoms when turning the neck.Symptoms about which many complain, but not much suspect a real diagnosis - osteochondrosis of the cervix region.But that is the insidious disease: it is easy, and in advanced cases the treatment is long and expensive.
The symptoms of the disease are either associated with violating the roots of the spinal cord or with the compression of blood vessels or spinal cord.First you have to contact a specialist, not for yourself. For the correct diagnosis, the doctor can add additional research methods, including radiography, MRI, ct.
In the early phases, manual therapy and therapeutic gymnastics are sufficient.This is the so -called, gentle therapy.
Injections, prescription of medication
In the inflammatory process, mediators (substances that are formed in large quantities in the focus of inflammation) damage the nerve fibers and cause both symptoms and pain in the neck.In complex therapy, it is not only important to remove pain syndrome, the inflammatory process, but also conditions for regeneration damaged tissue, including nervous.In order to start these processes, preparations with vitamins of group B are used - vitamins B1 - improvement in the diet of nerve tissue, restore their normal sensitivity, vitamin B6 improves the function of the nervous system as a whole, has a general strengthening effect.There is a water -soluble and fat -spontaneous form of vitamin B1.The effect of benfotiamine (fat and disability) is 5-10 times higher than thiamine (water-soluble).Due to the analgesic effect, these vitamins are referred to as "new analgesics".When treating osteochondrosis, doctors can recommend group B vitamins both in the form of injections and in the form of tablets.
When recognizing hernia in the cervix region, the lead may have to fall back on surgical intervention.What is important?After the main course of the treatment, maintaining your spine is a task No. 1. Appropriate physical activity, nutrition and gymnastics should be constant.