Osteochondrosis is often called a disease caused by a person's transition to a direct walk, a disease from a civilized world. In fact, the load in the spine in modern people is almost never evenly distributed, and osteochondrosis is characterized by damage to intervertebral discs. Every year, this disease is increasingly suffering from the population around the world. At any age, a person may begin to suffer from pain, seizures and other manifestations of osteochondrosis, which, among other things, also cause several other diseases. The development of the disease is influenced not only by hereditary factors or age -related changes, as it used to be, but also a worse environmental situation, food products that cause more harm than the benefits and other living conditions of people in the 21st century. The most common type of osteochondrosis is lumbar, second place is occupied by cervical spine osteochondrosis (cervical osteochondrosis).
The main causes of osteochondrosis in the cervical region
The modern world, despite progressive treatment methods, the development of scientific and medical technologies still faces various types of diseases associated with the spine. Among the important causes of osteochondrosis, the following can be called:
1. Causes of an objective nature, in the presence that special attention should be given to its own column
- Hereditary predisposition: osteochondrosis can be inherited. If relatives have suffered from such a disease, you should take all possible preventive measures to prevent their development
- Age -related changes: With age, the body itself produces fewer and fewer useful substances, which should also maintain a spine in a healthy state. For osteochondrosis to develop more slowly, you should already take care of your condition in youth
2. The reasons associated with a person's way of life. They are easy to eliminate if they are not stable and even better to immediately follow the principles of a healthy lifestyle
- Nutrition: What a person eats directly affects his health. A rapidly noticeable and rapid improvement brings the rejection of salt, sugar, flour and fatty dishes, from the consumption of products, which include preservatives and dyes, chocolate and alcohol. And, on the contrary, you should include in the diet the products that help in the construction of bones and cartilage (for example, sour milk products)
- Overweight: The natural consequence of malnutrition is a weight gain, which leads to an increase in cargo in the vertebrae
- Hypothermia: Any type of hypothermia, the drafts should be avoided. If this happened, it happened quickly for treatment, taking it to the end
- Lesions in the spine inevitably in the end will affect their condition
- Hypodinamia: Small mobility negatively affects the operation of all parts of the spine
- Intoxication also affects intervertebral discs, prevents the absorption of useful micro and macro elements. Smoking and alcohol are the main reasons for body poisoning
- Stress: It seems that lack of sleep, depression, a negative emotional state is not related to the discomfort that is tested with cervical spine osteochondrosis. However, this is not so
Symptoms of cervical spine osteochondrosis
The treatment of cervical spine osteochondrosis should be started as early as possible. Like any disease advanced, it is treated much more difficult and the consequences affect the whole body. Symptoms of osteochondrosis are sometimes attributed to other diseases. In case of deviations from the standard, you should immediately consult a doctor and review your lifestyle. The symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis include:
- Pain, especially in the occipital region, among the shoulder blades, in the neck
- Feeling on the shoulders
- Fingertips (especially during sleep)
- If, due to the development of cervical spine osteochondrosis, brain circulation is disturbed, a frequently dizzy person, the "flies"
- The feet of angina pectoris can be false - with cervical hotel osteochondrosis, false angina pectoris occurs often
- Headaches
- In some cases, with osteochondrosis in the cervical region, there is even a deterioration of the vision
- Noise, congestion, touching the ears. In some cases, hearing deterioration is possible
- Due to head pain, it is limited
- Lack of oxygen, which can be expressed in shortness of breath, snoring and greater fatigue
- Nausea and sometimes vomiting
- Fluctuations in blood pressure
In the absence of proper treatment, symptoms may take on more acute forms: for example, paralysis of the upper ends may occur, hernia usually appears in the cervical region, sleep is disturbed due to pain, memory.
Treatment and prevention methods of cervical spine osteochondrosis
Diet. An important factor that leads to the successful treatment of cervical osteochondrosis is the observance of a diet, which does not mean abandoning most products with osteochondrosis, on the contrary, mono-diaries, scarce nutrition is contraindicated. To reduce weight, you must adhere to fractional power 4-5 times a day.
Which products are important for the restoration of cartilage fabric:
- Meat (low, not fried)
- Fish and seafood
- Dairy products, including cheese, cottage cheese, kefir
- oil
- Fresh, non -canned vegetables and fruits subject to any other processing. Broccoli, vegetables, dates are especially rich in so needed for calcium osteochondrosis
- Groups
- Walnuts and seeds
- eggs
- Magnesium can "provide" bananas, cucumbers, oats, dry apricots, vegetables
Products of which, with neck osteochondrosis, you will have to refuse:
- Bakery and Sweet
- Fat, acute and salty food
- canned food
- Carbonated and alcoholic beverages
- Fast food products
- lard and sausages
- Strong tea and coffee
With osteochondrosis, you should drink 2, 5 - 3 liters of clean water, the remaining drinks, the soups are not considered.
Physiotherapeutic procedures. This type of treatment has long established itself as an excellent method of reduction of pain and edema, improving blood microcirculation, relaxation and removal of toxins. Among physiotherapeutic procedures in modern medical practice, a whole range of opportunities: 
- Electrophoresis and Galvanization
- Ultra -Framework Procedures (UHF)
- Magnetotherapy
- ultraviolet
- Paraffin and mud baths
- Collar zone massage
Medication. With intense pain, medications that can reduce them are taken to relieve inflammation. To replenish the lack of micro and macroelements in the body, it is recommended to take vitamins and food additives that can restore the necessary balance, which is difficult to reach only the use of food products nowadays. A good impact on the cervical region has ointments designed to reduce inflammation and pain
Medical Physical Education. The movement offers the opportunity to take a different position. As a modern person is inactive and more often spends a time in a sitting or lying position, the gymnastics to strengthen the spine is simply irreplaceable. Exercises should not cause pain, discomfort and besides injuring. With osteochondrosis of the cervical region, physiotherapy exercises aim to strengthen the neck muscles:
- Lying in the stomach, lift your head kindly (backwards), hold it in this position for 1-2 minutes, lower it
- In the same position, turn your head to the left
- Exercise, which is easy to perform during the business day, sitting at the table: with the palms, resting on the forehead, resisting forever ("butt"), then crosses the arms on the back of the head and also rest your head on your palms, resisting.
- This exercise also does not require special conditions to comply with: turn your head to the left and right, tilting your head into both directions to your shoulders, head and backward leaning and head rotation. It is better to do these exercises sitting slowly, during dizziness, interrupt
- Because the cervical region is directly related to other parts of the spine, it is important to strengthen the back: for this you need to lie on your back, tighten your legs in the chest and roll (you must be performed on a hard surface); Lying on your back, put your feet in a chair and pull your head to your knees; kneeling, holding hands behind his back, trying to kneel with his forehead
It is recommended that the exercises be performed regularly, at least a few minutes a day, otherwise their effect will be minimal. You should also properly organize a place to sleep: the right (not pushed, flat, solid surface) mattress and, which is extremely important with the collar zone's neck osteochondrosis, a hard pillow in a certain way to the correct head position and neck during sleep, should also be in bed.
Popular remedies. Despite the fact that osteochondrosis is a scourge of a modern person, people have long been suffering from this disease and therefore traditional medicine has many prescriptions to remove pain, edema, improve condition and general prevention:
- For external use at home, you can make ointments and rub: The red berries of elderlings are spilled with 2/3 with alcohol and are worth it for a week - so this scrub can start to be used; Hop cones are rubbed with butter and rubbed in the collar area
- For inner use, decay are made, the infusions are manufactured, the herbal teas are manufactured: it is recommended that herbal teas are made of St. John herb, bell, hops - 2 tablespoons grass by 0, 5 liters of water are usually made for 5 minutes, so the mixture is infused for half an hour, filtered and techniques on various techniques.
Taking measures to treat cervical spine osteochondrosis, be sure that disease prevention is always more effective. In addition, any disease requires an integrated treatment approach as the effect should be provided throughout the body as a whole.