The cervical osteochondrosis is a common pathology associated with the destruction of cartilage in the joints of the cervical spine.
Signs of cervical osteochondrosis are most often manifested in the interval between 20 and 40 years.This disease explains headache in a third of cases.If you do not prescribe treatment in time, the disease will enter the advanced stage and will most likely provoke a hernia of the intervertebral disc or the intervertebral lead.
An important problem is that due to the contradictory symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, diagnosis can be difficult.Some characteristics of the course of the disease, which is further discussed, can lead to the patient to go to the doctor in good time, which complicates the diagnosis of neck osteochondrosis and its further treatment.
Most of the time, acute cervical osteochondrosis develops when a person leads a sitting lifestyle, and since then there has been a gradual transition of humanity from mainly physical work to intellectual (to a sitting lifestyle) with the development of technology and science.It is not surprising today that this disease has been widespread today.
In addition, signs of a neck osteochondrosis and their differences to the symptoms that accompany this disease with damage to other spine departments are examined in detail.
The causes of this disease are the deposition of salts in the cervical spine during the constant work on the computer or when driving a car, metabolic disorders, inactive lifestyle and malnutrition.
The disease can also be triggered by systemic lupus erythematosus, neck injuries, hypothermia, inheritance, hormonal disorders and rheumatism.
Symptoms of neck osteochondrosis and various sign groups
Before you go into more detailed consideration of the symptoms, you should get to know a certain series of general signs of the disease.
Therefore, the general symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis are expressed:
- Pain in the cervical and shoulder departments, in the hands and in the back of the head, and painful manifestations are improved even with weak loads during the sneezing or cough attack.
- Pain and crunch in the neck when trying to turn your head;
- with deafness and tingling in the limbs, the burning of the back area, near the shoulder blades and between them;
- Headache that begins from the occipital region and spread to the crown and temple;
- Dizziness and fainting with sharp head wins;
- Weakness and fatigue, quick tiredness.
The remaining symptoms are expressed by pulling pain in the heart and noise in his ears.The patient does not hear well, his eyesight can lose weight.
All of these processes can occur in parallel to other clinical signs.
In view of the traditional pain in the neck, sometimes in addition to symptoms that are not atypical for osteochondrosis that are not associated with this disease.For example, only a few are compared with osteochondrosis of the weakness of the neck in the legs, the elite pain or the deterioration vision - and the article aims to say the symptoms of this disease as accessible as possible.
In order to understand how osteochondrosis manifests itself, it is necessary to divide the syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis into three groups that depend on the participation in the pathology of the central nervous system.
The first group usually includes neurological features that are regarded as complications of the disease that occur on the peripheral region of the nervous system due to the influence of pathological processes.
The second group is considered symptoms that can only be manifested on the spinal cord under the influence of the disease.
The third group includes symptoms associated with processes that occur during the cervix osteochondrosis in the brain.
In short, we can say the following: The first group contains signs responsible for sick manifestations, the second - for motor disorders, the third - for pathological effects on the ships.
The symptoms can be separated or manifest in 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 already mentioned, this group includes pain that can manifest itself due to the defeat of the pathological process of the peripheral section of the nervous system.
Painful manifestations in the neck, radicolith of the cervix region and on the side are also symptoms of this group, which are also characterized by pain in the chest, muscles and joints.
The pain in the neck is the first symptom of osteochondrosis of the neck and manifests itself in almost all patients.Most often begins in the morning and intensifies when a person turns, it laughs, cough, sneezing, an unsuccessful turn of the neck.The pain is usually bored, stupid, sometimes shoots, located in the neck, but occasionally spreads to the shoulder region.
Such pain can occur regularly or constantly take, they are different in the long run and strength.
Sometimes painful manifestations are sharp, but they are expressed differently, they can feel through the "current blow", and at the same time someone feels a shooting pain that penetrates, everything is individual.
The neck muscles can be tense, and then it will be difficult to breathe.During the acute time of osteochondrosis of the neck, the patient takes certain poses - holds his head and tends to the front and to the side, and it is very difficult for him to turn with her during the bastards.
Common symptoms are noise phenomena, they can occur if they try to turn their heads, which is expressed by crunch and crackling.This shows the neglect of the disease.
Sometimes people believe that the disease is triggered by the wrong position in a dream, hypothermia, sharp head wins and the load on the neck.
Factors and signs accompanied by 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, not the main causes of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine.
Sore throats and shots are not all symptoms of this group, except that they have different types of radiculitis of the neck and shoulder region, which led to painful manifestations of the upper neck region and the back of the head.
The pain intensifies during the rotation of the head, sometimes it even passes to the shoulder strap and the arms, it provokes tensions in the muscles associated with nerve roots.Most of the time they suffer in the sixth and seventh departments due to the pressing of the vertebrae.The pathology of the sixth department leads to pain in the forearm and thumb, the seventh - painful manifestations in the middle finger.Rarely for this disease is the damage to the eighth department with the spread of pain on the little finger.
With lesions of the upper vertebrae and cervix discs, the occipital nerve is contained in the painful processes that are affected with new pain that are constant.Sometimes this pain becomes stronger, and then the sensitivity of the neck is lost.You can even find a pain point that looks like a small seal.
Since changes in the neck begin due to impaired blood supply, cervical vegetative formations can suffer.The symptom as a combustion pain is connected, which becomes more physical and emotional stress or when changing the weather conditions.In addition, the color of the hands and hands changes, swelling appears, the skin becomes pale and thin and becomes cold.Also the disappearance of sensitivity to strengthening or vice versa.Tachycardia joins, pain in the heart, the students change.
Additional signs of the first group
Osteochondrosis of the neck also manifests itself by symptoms in the hands (usually this happens at night).This is called at night, usually the diagnosis is made for those whose lifestyle is associated with different physical activities after forty years.
The additional signs of the first group tingling and deafness of bones, pain and symptoms in the hands, and since attacks occur more frequently at night, a dream is disturbed because of them.
The symptoms of this group reach their 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 vegetative nodes are not sufficiently supplied with blood too close to the spine.
This disease sometimes contributes to the occurrence of slate, since frequent satellites of osteochondrosis are muscle cramps that occur during the slopes of the head and neck rotation.At the same time, a person cannot normally turn his head because there are increasing pain in the back of the head or shoulder.
Pain in the fingers and the nonsense of the skin combine when the vessels are pressed, blood supply is disturbed or the pulse is weakened in the radial artery.
Another complication is the shoulder -packed periactatrite, which occurs due to a violation of the shoulder loyalty and spatular cuts with the central nervous system.As a result, the dystrophic changes only increase over time.
The main problem is that such pathologies are secretly occurring for a long time and the patient may not notice them.
The main symptoms lie in the causal joint pain, which, as already mentioned, manifest itself at night.Painful places can be felt and the kidnapping of the hands aside causes sharp pain.
Since the patient tries not to disturb the limb so as not to have pain, the effect of a "frozen shoulder" can no longer occur due to the inactivity in the joints, and if the treatment does not begin over time, a person cannot be able to raise a hand over the horizontal level.
What are the signs of the second group of this disease?
Symptoms of a neck osteochondrosis symptoms that occur due to pathologies of the spinal cord are symptoms of the second group.The symptoms can lead to compression that is generated by a pulpoker that falls out of the disc due to its softening or due to the injury to the spinal cord.
In the limbs of such symptoms, a reduced muscle tone is often combined in the hands, but on the contrary, on the contrary, the legs are increased, but weight loss is not observed.Sometimes painless grunts of the muscles develop (usually it occurs after forty years, less often after fifty and almost never in youth).Similar complications can be found in people with anamnesis of atherosclerosis or arrhythmias.
The spinal cord (with problems with the pane between the fifth and sixth vertebra) can endure the change, which is called myelopathy.Typically, this pathology occurs due to injuries to the spine or overvoltage that touched the muscles of the shoulder, but sometimes stress or alcohol poisoning can be the cause.
There are also clinical manifestations that proceed without increasing temperature or loss of sensitivity, which is why a person stops feeling a annoying effect that can in some way can be on the skin of the neck, arms and breast.In addition, broken or painful pain can occur, the patient's hands.
The osteochondrosis of the cervical vertebra is also characterized by the "Semiconductor Distribution Syndrome", which occurs when the spinal cord parts are poorly provided with blood.As a result, the legs are going or are very tired.Sometimes brushes are occasionally deaf - feet, symptoms can occur in them.Coordination is also possible, especially when the patient closes his eyes.
Despite the certain frequency of manifestation of these characters, they will not withdraw the opportunity to work, work, and a person can lead a normal lifestyle.
What signs belong to the third group of this disease?
The symptoms and signs of the third group relate to the brain manifestations of the disease, which can be seen in the system due to the inadequate blood flow, which is responsible for the fact that the blood falls in sufficient amounts and in time in the spinal cord compartments.This system is formed from the main vessels as vertebral arteries.
Which syndromes characterize this group of symptoms?
The hypotalamic syndrome in osteochondrosis of the cervical spine is most frequently found.His symptoms are the instability of the mood, irritability and high tiredness, fear, resentment, sleep disorder (the patient does not sleep well and increases with the feeling that he has not slept).In addition, there is the possibility to concentrate, lost, problems with memory begins and in everything the discomfort can be felt.Occasionally, longing, anger, causal fear and fear can join.The skin becomes pale, the limbs are cold, the patient increases sweating, the pressure often increases, but appetite and sexual desire are reduced.
The drops syndrome is characterized by attacks by the causal power of power (sometimes with loss of consciousness, sometimes without).The reason for this is vascular cramps.Consciousness returns almost immediately when the patient puts and lowers his head.After the weakness, a feeling of breakdown can occur, headache joined.
Signs of vestibular barrel syndrome at the beginning of the disease are dizziness, which is astonishing due to insufficient blood supply, nausea attacks and vomiting that are amazed when walking.
The symptoms of cochlea barrel syndrome and noise in the ears, usually on one side, can reduce the hearing, hollow hollow.Usually this syndrome follows from the previous one, but its independent manifestation is also possible.It is difficult to understand the diagnosis of cervical osteochondrosis with these signs.
With a pharyngeal minute syndrome, there is a feeling that a foreign body in the throat, different dry and itching in the throat, the voice deaf, the larynx of the magicians and pain in IT and throat occurs.The patient gets tired during a conversation, he needs a vacation.In addition, it is difficult to swallow thick foods, cramps of the esophagus.A short -term break can save these manifestations.
The symptoms of visual disorders are expressed by disorders - fog in front of the eyes, a decrease in eyesight.
What is the risk of the disease?
If you do not diagnose adequate treatment at the time when there are signs of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine, radiculopathy can begin in which nerve roots are affected, and the patient loses mobility, but the greatest risk is to compress the spinal cord, which can lead to death.
With neck osteochondrosis, the most dangerous form of this disease, the brain circulation can be disturbed, since migraines, high blood pressure, vegetovascular dystonia, pathology of the cardiovascular and respiratory system, visual problems, hearing problems and coordination begin.Clever forms of the disease lead to the syndrome of vertebral artery, which delivers blood of the long brain and cerebellum, and if the artery is pressed, the ischemia of the brain or spinal cord can begin, such manifestations can cause a back line.
Do not leave such a dangerous illness without attention as a cervix osteochondrosis, since the consequences can influence the ability to work and generally.If the first symptoms occur, you must immediately seek help from a specialist.After a thorough examination, the applicable doctor decides how to treat osteochondrosis of the cervical spine.