Often, the head hurts, dizziness - we think it's either a migraine or "for the weather".Pinched in the heart?Minor.Trying or numbness in your hands - you must sit down less on the computer, move more.But the cause of these, at first glance, and not related symptoms can be your spine.More specifically, its highest section is the cervical.
Neck.What do we know?
The cervical column is the most mobile and vulnerable part of the spine, which allows you to make inclinations and turns of the head.It consists of 7 vertebrae, between which there are elastic intervertebral discs.They pass blood vessels that "nourish" the brain and provide oxygen.The nerve endings associated with the spinal cord (the interior of the spine) give impulses and signals to other organs of the body.As a result, the body works harmoniously.If vertebrates due to metabolic disorders are distorted, they can press the nerve endings or a blood vessel, a person feels pain.It is the pain that is the main symptoms of an illness such as osteochondrosis of the cervical column.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 in a hurry.The brain blood supply is disrupted.As a result - headache, up to migraines.With a neglected form, the ischemia of the brain or spinal cord, even a stroke.
- L'ostéochondrose de la région cervicale est considérée comme l'une des maladies les plus insidieuses. En raison du fait que les vertèbres cervicales sont très proches les unes des autres, avec la moindre déformation, les racines nerveuses et les vaisseaux sanguins sont pressés. L'approvisionnement en sang cérébral est perturbé. En conséquence - maux de tête, jusqu'aux migraines. Avec une forme négligée, l'ischémie du cerveau ou de la moelle épinière, même un accident vasculaire cérébral.
- The cardiovascular system can also be at risk.Increased or reduced pressure, pain in the heart is not always a cardiological pathology.You can "eliminate" the pressure for years, being observed by a cardiologist, and cervical osteochondosis can be the cause of such cardiac diseases.
- Due to the compression of nerve endings, hearing, vision and even the coordination of movements may suffer.
Symptoms of neck osteochondrosis:
- Pain.This can be a slight pain in the neck, especially by turning or after sleep.With cervical osteochondosis, the pain can be "given" on an occipital time and on the shoulders.When the head is tilted forward, pain under the spatula can also occur.Headaches and migraines are not rare in this disease.
- Numbness.Unpleasant sensations, tingling or numbness in the arm, shoulder, shoulder blades, neck.Criffon in the neck when you turn your head.
- Noise and ringing in your ears.Perhaps a deterioration of hearing.
- Nausea, lack of air.The difficulty in breathing is observed, it is impossible to breathe in the chest, which leads to the oxygen famine of the body.
- Visual impairment.The sharpness of visual acuity, obstruction, "flies" before the eyes.
- The instability of blood pressure.Pressure past or reduced.Dizziness.
An interesting fact.More than 80% of the population complains of pain in the neck, and 30% of headaches are associated with cervical osteochondosis.
The causes of cervical osteochondosis
osteochondrosis, in particular, the osteochondrosis of the neck, is young today.We move less - we create more problems for the spine.If the elderly encountered this problem earlier, today, today a 20-30-year-old patient who complains of back and neck ailments, you will not surprise the doctor.
The most common reasons:
- Sitting lifestyle
- Insufficient physical activity
- Excess weight, Metabolic violation
- Bad habits: Alcohol consumption, smoking
- Incorrect sleep: Pillow and mattress incorrectly selected
- Court charges associated with a long -term forced body position
- Wounds
How to treat cervical osteochondosis
The first manifestations of the osteochondrosisConfuse with trivial cold or fatigue: heaviness at the back of the head, headache, discomfort during the turn.Symptoms that many complain about, but not much suspect a real diagnosis - osteochondrosis in the cervical region.But it is the insidious disease: it progresses easily, and in advanced cases, the treatment is long and expensive.First of all, you must contact a specialist, not self-medication.For the right diagnosis, the doctor can prescribe additional research methods, including radiography, MRI, Ct.
At the beginning, manual therapy, therapeutic gymnastics will be sufficient.It's soft and soft therapy.
Injections, prescription of drugs
In the inflammatory process, mediators (substances formed in large quantities in the center of inflammation) can damage nerve fibers, causing discomfort, as well as pain in the neck.In complex therapy, it is important not only to eliminate pain syndrome, the inflammatory process, but also to create conditions for the regeneration of damaged tissues, including nervous tissues.To launch these processes, preparations with group B vitamins are used - vitamins B1 - improve the nutrition of nervous tissues, restore their normal sensitivity, vitamin B6 improves the functioning of the nervous system as a whole, has a general reinforcement effect.There is a soluble form in water and spontaneous vitamin B1 fats.The effect of benfotiamine (fat-and-right) is 5 to 10 times higher than thiamine (soluble in water).Due to the analgesic effect, these vitamins are called "new pain relievers".In the treatment of osteochondrosis, doctors can recommend vitamins of group B both in the form of injections and in the form of tablets.
When detecting hernias in the cervical region, the protrusion may need to use surgical intervention.What is important?After the main treatment, the management of your spine is a task n ° 1.. Appropriate physical activity, nutrition, gymnastics should be constant your companions.