The cervical osteochondrosis is the pathological changes in the intervertebral discs and the vertebrae of the cervical column that occur against the background of metabolic disorders.This form of the disease has some characteristics associated with the narrowness of the cervical region and its saturation with nerve endings and important blood vessels responsible for blood circulation in the brain.
The development of osteocondrosis causes pain, a deterioration of brain nutrition, dizziness, a decrease in vision and hearing.The progression of the disease is full of serious complications, therefore the treatment of cervical osteocondrosis is better to start in an initial phase.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to finally eliminate the disease, but with the help of a series of fairly effective methods you can forget the pain, the limitation of mobility and other symptoms of the disease for a long time.
Pharmacological treatment
An important place in the complex treatment of cervical osteochondrosis is the use of drugs.The following groups of funds are used:
Non steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs
Fans are prescribed to relieve pain and eliminate the inflammatory process.Complaces, ointments, gels, injections can be used.Since the prolonged use of drugs causes unwanted changes in the gastric mucosa, spasmolitics are often taken simultaneously with NSAI.
Hormonal drugs
Hormones are mainly used to relieve the root syndrome that occurs during the compression and swelling of the nerve fibers.Very often prescribed drugs for oral administration and injections directly in the neck.
Anesthetic medicines
In the cervical form of osteocondrosis, one of the important areas of the treatment is the use of anesthetics.These drugs are used for the implementation of the subsidiary neuromuscular block for the direct effect of the anesthetic on nerve fibers, which manages to obtain the temporary disposal of severe pain.There are several ways to introduce anesthetics:
- intradermal;
- subcutaneous;
- muscle;
- perineral;
- Koreshka
One of the methods to reduce the swelling of the nervous tissue for cervical osteochondrosis is the simultaneous use of anesthetic and glucocorticosteroid.This method of treatment allows to obtain a quick and long term analgesic effect.The course is about 5-7 procedures performed on alternate days.In this way, you can treat cervical and cervical species, mammary and lumbar of osteochondosis.In addition to the injection directly in the affected areas, the administration of drugs in small doses in active points is also practiced.The technique is called "pharmacopuncture".
Annoying local funds
You can effectively fight cervical osteochondrosis with irritating ointments, rubbing, linification.Drugs activate blood circulation, stimulate metabolic processes, have an irritating and distracting effect.
Condroprotectors
An important part of osteochondrosis therapy is the use of a group of agents that slows down the process of destruction of the cartilage tissue, since the main cause of pain is the injury of nerve endings due to some deformations in the cervical region.Condroprotectors cannot finally treat the disease, but with their competent use, a complete arrest of the destructive process is possible.
Improve blood circulation tools
The improvement of blood microcirculation in the neck is obtained when using trend, nicotinic acid, nicotinic acid.In the treatment of osteocondrosis, tablets or injections are prescribed.The drugs increase the fluid properties of the blood and have a stimulating effect on the circulation of peripheral blood by activating the venous outflow.Thanks to this, the metabolic processes are regulated in the affected area, which helps to relieve inflammation and edema.
Vitamins
Vitamins are used during treatment and remission.The purpose of their use in the cervical form of osteochondrosis is to improve nervous conduction, the reduction of vestibular and visual disorders that occur due to the deformation of the vertebrae and cartilage and the subsequent disorder of the nutrition of the brain.The use of vitamins B (in particular B6, B12), as well as vitamins C and A, strengthen the vascular walls and have an antioxidant effect, is mandatory.
Physiotherapy
The use of physiotherapy procedures in the location of pathological changes in the cervical region is one of the most effective methods in the treatment of osteochondosis.
Ultraviolet irradiation
The effects of UV rays contribute to the synthesis of vitamin D, which contributes to the absorption of one of the most important oligoelements-calsa.For the procedure, irradiations are used which have anti -inflammatory, analgesics and bactericidal effects.For the treatment of the osteocondrosis of the cervical column, the Uofo method is processed by the rear surface of the neck, by the upper interststhum area, from the external surface of the shoulder and the subclavia side.
The procedure has some contraindications:
- malignant neoplasms;
- blood pathologies;
- Intake of drugs, whose action has improved by the UV exhibition.
Vibration
You can get rid of the cervical osteocondrosis using vibrational effects.How does it work?The essence of the method lies in the effects of the injury area for mechanical vibrations, due to which pain syndrome is significantly softened.He often uses tape masseurs.There are three types of vibration massage:
- general;
- zonal;
- point.
Contraindications:
- vibrational disease;
- the presence of dermatitis or areas of damage on the skin;
- Oncological diseases;
- Mental disorders.
Laser therapy
Laser therapy is very effective for cervical osteochondosis.The method is based on the healing effect of helium-neon laser that stimulate bioelectric processes in nerve fibers.The effectiveness of the treatment is obtained thanks to the healing of the wound, the analgesic and anti -inflammatory properties of laser radiation.
During the procedure, the processing of inflamed roots of the spinal cord, paravertebral areas (periphence) of the cervical region concerned is carried out.Each root is processed for a maximum of 2 minutes.The total duration of the session is a quarter of an hour.
Electrotherapy
Treatment for this therapy is carried out through the use of electric current.Under its influence in the tissues, heat is produced, due to which the blood flow is activated in the cervical column, the pain disappears and the process of restoring damaged tissues is accelerated.
Electrotherapy is not prescribed to patients with pacemaker or metal devices in the body.
Shock wave method
The essence of therapy is the effect of an acoustic wave on the area of the problem, due to:
- Pain disappears;
- Metabolic processes are accelerated;
- The microcirculation improves.
Interpretation
What to do if cervical osteochondosis is accompanied by acute pain?The tested method is the effect on the painful area with an electric current with a rhythmic change in its frequency.The current resistance should increase until the appearance of vibration vibrations in the tissues.After a 15 -minute procedure, the intensity of the pain is significantly reduced
DDT (Diadime Therapy)
With this method of treatment, the affected area is exposed to a double wave or continuous current, whose resistance gradually increases to a slight sensation of vibration in the elaborate area.Also serious pains after different procedures are hurt, simultaneously eliminating muscle tension and irritation of the nerve roots.After a complete course, the tone of the cervical muscles is normalized, increases the mobility of the affected part of the spine.
Useful electrical neurostimulation
This physiotherapy method is briefly called Chens.During the procedure they are used with platrodes with hydrophilal gaskets.They are applied throughout the cervical area, as well as on the projection field of the nerve roots that emerge from the cervical region.To obtain the therapeutic effect, the current intensity increases until the vibration appears.This method is suitable for the treatment in the acute phase of the osteocondrosis.
Therapy-Therapy Dutoenzor
This is the name of the soft spine in a horizontal position.Thanks to the use of the method, the muscles relax, their spasm is removed, the tone is normalized and the performance of the spine in the cervical region are restored.The exhaust of the spine and the elimination of the vertical squeeze of the discs restores the normal supply of nutrients with the area influenced by osteochondrosis.Treatment with the help of the therapy of the holder helps to eliminate headache, neck pain and dizziness.The method can also be prescribed to elderly patients, as well as with heart problems.
Manual therapy
It is possible to effectively treat cervical osteochondosis with the help of a qualified doctor-therapist who skillfully has manual therapy techniques.The method provides for a local dose effect on the elements of the spine to restore the mobility of the damaged segment or its adaptation to new conditions.
How to perform the procedures correctly?Movements should be soft, adjusting, with light massage elements of the problem of the problem.At the same time, stretching manipulations are performed, while the head plays the role of a lever.
Firstly, diagnostics is carried out to identify the degree of limitation of the mobility of the interested party.The purpose of further manual actions is to eliminate the block (restriction).This effect cannot eliminate osteophytes or restore the cartilage tissue.Its goal is to increase the mobility of the cervical region and relieve pain.
The contraindications to the procedure are:
- inflammatory pathologies of the spinal column;
- malignant neoplasms;
- recent trauma of the spine;
- increase in the fragility of the bones;
- Ernia of the intervertebral disc.
In the last two cases, it is possible to prescribe manual treatment, but it must be performed extremely carefully.
Physiotherapy and gymnastics
In the initial stages of osteochondrosis, it is possible to prescribe a normal gymnastics complex.With the progression of the disease, a single training system is selected.The exercises are performed without hitches, with a gradual increase in the load.Crystal or pain should not be allowed.Treatment with exercise therapy is quite effective if combined with physiotherapy.The correct performance of the exercises helps to eliminate pain syndrome and increase the mobility of the cervical column.
In which cases is the operation prescribed?
If the use of conservative methods does not give a result, patients recommend a surgical operation.His participation is advisable:
- with very serious pains that are not eliminated after taking drugs;
- with growing weakness of the muscles of the hands;
- With serious signs of squeezing the spinal cord.
The most commonly used is an operation for removing the osteophytes and hernias on the disc with further spondilodeza anteropost.In the postoperative period, patients should wear support for about 3 months.
Folk methods
How to quickly treat osteochondrosis?Supporters of traditional medicine affirm that this can be done with the help of ordinary means.The main medicinal components for the treatment of this disease are:
- First materials of origin of the plant: herbs, flowers, roots - are used for internal reception or in the form of puffs, bathrooms, compressed and so on;
- Products or drugs of animal origin: fat poison, bee or snake, bile, eggs - are used for the preparation of rubber, ointments, compositions for heating and pain relief;
- Chemical products that have a heating, irritating, analgesic effect: alcohol, terrible, iodine.
Almost all the methods for the treatment of cervical osteochondosis with popular remedies are based on the principle of heating the affected area.They can only be used as addition to traditional therapy.
Some recommendations should be generally treated with caution, since instead of the benefit you can get complications.For example, the common treatment with horseradish leaves, pre -alzed in boiling water, often leads to burns.In addition, many plant and animal components are strong allergens: they cannot be used if there is a tendency to allergies.
There are adequate recommendations (for example, the use of the tincture of recruitment branches that have an analgesic effect), but are not fairly effective.
At one time, the so called "removal of salts" using different tinctures and herbal taxes was very popular.The result was often a remarkable deterioration of the patient's conditions, that the healers of the people themselves explained to the departure of excess salts from the body.With osteochondrosis (included in the cervical region), not only the salt metabolism is interrupted, but all metabolic processes in the area concerned.Even with the actual removal of the salts, an improvement in the patient's condition cannot occur.In addition, the main cause of the disease is the dehydration of the intervertebral records and, with its further progression, the formation of osteophytes begins.In both cases, herbal infusions cannot do without.
Preventive measures
To prevent degenerative dyeing changes in the cervical region and the development of osteochondrosis, several rules must be followed:
- Do not expose the spine with large loads;
- Do not be in an uncomfortable state for a long time;
- With the session work, periodically get up, perform simple exercises: turns around the neck, circular movements, small massage;
- avoid sudden movements;
- Not over cool;
- In time to treat other diseases;
- Avoid injuries;
- If possible, prevent stress;
- monitor posture;
- exercise;
- Eat well;
- get rid of excess weight;
- Smoking prohibited.