Cervical osteochondrosis is pathological changes in the intervertebral discs and the vertebrae of the cervical spine occurring against the background of metabolic disorders.This form of the disease has some features 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 osteochondrosis provokes pain, a deterioration in the nutrition of the brain, dizziness, a decrease in vision and hearing.The progression of the disease is fraught with serious complications, so the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis is better to begin at an early stage.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to finally get rid of the disease, but with the help of a number of fairly effective methods you can forget about pain, limitation of mobility and other symptoms of the disease for a long time.
Drug treatment
An important place in the complex treatment regimen of cervical osteochondrosis is the use of medications.The following groups of funds are used:
Nonsteroidal anti -inflammatory drugs
NSAIDs are prescribed to relieve pain and eliminate the inflammatory process.Tablets, ointments, gels, injections can be used.Since prolonged use of drugs provoke undesirable changes in the gastric mucosa, spasmolytics are often taken simultaneously with the NSAI.
Hormonal drugs
Hormones are used mainly to relieve radicular syndrome that occurs when compressing and swelling of the nerve fibers.Most often prescribed drugs for oral administration and injections directly to the neck.
Anesthetic medicines
In the cervical form of osteochondrosis, one of the important areas of treatment is the use of anesthetics.These drugs are used for the implementation of subsidiary neuromuscular blockade for the direct effect of anesthetic on the nerve fibers, which manages to achieve temporary disposal of severe pain.There are several ways to introduce anesthetics:
- intradermal;
- subcutaneous;
- muscular;
- perineral;
- Koreshka
One of the methods for reducing the swelling of the nervous tissue for cervical osteochondrosis is the simultaneous use of anesthetic and glucocorticosteroid.This method of treatment allows you to achieve a quick and long -term analgesic effect.The course is approximately 5-7 procedures carried out every other day.In this way, you can treat both cervical and cervical, breast and lumbar species of osteochondrosis.In addition to injection directly into the affected areas, the administration of drugs in small doses to active points is also practiced.The technique is called “Pharmacopuncture”.
Annoying funds of local use
You can effectively fight cervical osteochondrosis with irritating ointments, rubbing, linification.Drugs activate blood circulation, stimulate metabolic processes, have an irritating and distracting effect.
Chondroprotectors
An important part of therapy for osteochondrosis is the use of a group of agents slowing down the process of destroying cartilage tissue, since the main cause of pain is the injury of nerve endings due to certain deformations in the cervical region.Chondroprotectors cannot finally cure the disease, but with their competent use, a complete stop of the destructive process is possible.
Improving blood circulation tools
Improving the microcirculation of blood in the neck is achieved when using trendal, actorgin, nicotinic acid, curtails.In the treatment of osteochondrosis, tablets or injections are prescribed.The drugs increase the fluid properties of the blood and have a stimulating effect on peripheral blood circulation by activating venous outflow.Thanks to this, metabolic processes are regulated in the affected area, which helps to relieve inflammation and edema.
Vitamins
Vitamins are used during treatment and during remission.The purpose of their use in the cervical form of osteochondrosis is to improve nervous conduction, reduction of vestibular and visual disorders that occur as a result of the deformation of the vertebrae and the cartilage and subsequent disturbance of the nutrition of the brain.The use of B vitamins (especially B6, B12), as well as vitamins C and A, strengthen the vascular walls and have an antioxidant effect, is mandatory.
Physiotherapy
The use of physiotherapeutic procedures in the localization of pathological changes in the cervical region is one of the most effective methods in the treatment of osteochondrosis.
Ultraviolet irradiation
The effects of UV rays contributes to the synthesis of vitamin D, which contributes to the absorption of one of the most important trace elements-calcium.For the procedure, irradiators are used that have anti -inflammatory, analgesic and bactericidal effects.For the treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine, the UOFO method is processed by the rear surface of the neck, the upper intersthum zone, the outer surface of the shoulder and the subclavian part.
The procedure has some contraindications:
- malignant neoplasms;
- blood pathologies;
- Taking medications, the action of which is enhanced by UV exposure.
Vibration
You can get rid of cervical osteochondrosis using vibrational effects.How does it work?The essence of the method lies in the effects of the lesion zone by mechanical vibrations, due to which the pain syndrome is significantly softened.Often use tape massagers.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 osteochondrosis.The method is based on the healing effect of helium-neon lasers that stimulate bioelectric processes in nerve fibers.The effectiveness of treatment is achieved thanks to the wound healing, analgesic and anti -inflammatory properties of laser radiation.
In the course of the procedure, the processing of inflamed roots of the spinal cord, paravertebral (periporteous) zones of the affected cervical region 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 such 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 in the cervical spine is activated, the pain disappears, and the process of restoration of damaged tissues is accelerated.
Electrotherapy is not prescribed to patients with pacemakers or metal devices in the body.
Shock-wave method
The essence of therapy is the effect of an acoustic wave on the problem area, due to:
- pain disappears;
- metabolic processes are accelerated;
- Microcirculation improves.
Interpreting
What to do if cervical osteochondrosis 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 strength should increase until the appearance of vibration vibrations in the tissues.After one 15-minute procedure, the intensity of pain is significantly reduced
DDT (diadime therapy)
With this method of treatment, the affected area is exposed to double wave or continuous current, the strength of which gradually increases to a slight sensation of vibration in the processed zone.Even severe pains after several procedures become aching, simultaneously eliminated muscle tension and irritation of nerve roots.After a full course, the tone of the cervical muscles is normalized, the mobility of the affected part of the spine increases.
Useful electrical neurostimulation
This physiotherapeutic method is briefly called Chens.During the procedure, plate electrodes equipped with hydrophilic gaskets are used.They are applied throughout the cervical zone, as well as on the field of projection of the nerve roots emerging from the cervical region.To obtain the therapeutic effect, the current intensity increases until vibration appears.This method is suitable for treatment in the acute phase of osteochondrosis.
Dutoenzor-therapy
This is the name of the soft prolonged 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 is restored.Unloading the spinal column and the elimination of vertical squeezing of the disks restores the normal supply of nutrients with the zone affected by osteochondrosis.Treatment with the help of detenser therapy helps to eliminate headaches, pain in the neck, and dizziness.The method can be prescribed even to elderly patients, as well as with heart problems.
Manual therapy
It is possible to effectively treat cervical osteochondrosis with the help of a qualified doctor-therapist who skillfully possessing manual therapy techniques.The method involves a local dosed effect on the elements of the spine to restore the mobility of the damaged segment or its adaptation to new conditions.
How to perform procedures correctly?Movements should be soft, adjusting, with elements of light massage of the problem area.At the same time, stretching manipulations are carried out, while the head plays the role of a lever.
First, diagnostics are carried out to identify the degree of limitation of the mobility of the affected part.The aim of further manual actions is to eliminate the block (restriction).Such an effect cannot eliminate osteophytes or restore cartilage tissue.Its goal is to increase the mobility of the cervical region and relieve pain.
Contraindications to the procedure are:
- inflammatory pathologies of the spinal column;
- malignant neoplasms;
- recent trauma of the spine;
- increased fragility of bones;
- hernia of the intervertebral disc.
In the last two cases, it is possible to prescribe manual treatment, but it must be carried out extremely carefully.
Physiotherapy and gymnastics
In the initial stages of osteochondrosis, a regular gymnastics complex can be prescribed.With the progression of the disease, an individual training system is selected.Exercises are performed smoothly, with a gradual increase in load.Cryst or pain should not be allowed.Treatment with exercise therapy is quite effective when combined with physiotherapy.Proper performance of exercises helps to eliminate the pain syndrome and increase the mobility of the cervical spine.
In what cases is the operation are prescribed?
If the use of conservative methods does not give a result, patients recommend a surgical operation.Its holding is advisable:
- with very severe pains that are not eliminated after taking medications;
- with increasing weakness of the muscles of the hands;
- With severe signs of squeezing the spinal cord.
The most commonly used is an operation to remove osteophytes and disk hernias with further anteroposterior spondylodeza.In the postoperative period, patients should wear a head holder for about 3 months.
Folk methods
How to quickly cure osteochondrosis?Supporters of traditional medicine claim that this can be done with the help of ordinary means.The main medicinal components for the treatment of this disease are:
- Raw materials of plant origin: herbs, flowers, roots - are used for internal reception or in the form of puffs, baths, compresses and so on;
- Products or drugs of animal origin: fat, bee or snake venom, bile, egg - are used for the preparation of rubber, ointments, compresses for warming and pain relief;
- Chemicals that have a warming, irritating, analgesic effect: alcohol, turpentine, iodine.
Almost all methods of treating cervical osteochondrosis with folk remedies are based on the principle of warming up the affected area.They can only be used as an addition to traditional therapy.
Some recommendations should generally be treated with caution, since instead of benefit you can get complications.For example, the common treatment with horseradish leaves, pre -lowered in boiling water, often lead 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 tincture of recruitment branches that have an analgesic effect), but they are not effective enough.
At one time, the so -called “removal of salts” using different herbal tinctures and fees was very popular.The result was often a noticeable deterioration in the patient’s condition, which the people's healers themselves explained to the departure of excess salts from the body.With osteochondrosis (including in the cervical region), not only salt metabolism is disrupted, but all metabolic processes in the affected area.Even with the effective removal of salts, improving the patient's condition cannot occur.In addition, the main cause of the disease is the dehydration of the intervertebral discs, and with its further progression, the formation of osteophytes begins.In both cases, herbal infusions cannot help.
Preventive measures
To prevent degenerative-dystrophic changes in the cervical region and the development of osteochondrosis, several rules must be followed:
- Do not expose the spine with large loads;
- not to be in a motionless uncomfortable state for a long time;
- With sitting work, get up periodically, perform simple exercises: neck turns, circular movements, small massage;
- avoid sudden movements;
- Do not overcool;
- In time to treat other diseases;
- avoid injuries;
- If possible, prevent stress;
- monitor posture;
- exercise;
- eat right;
- get rid of excess weight;
- no smoking.