Osteochondrosis is often called a disease caused by a person's transition to a direct walk, a disease of a civilized world. In fact, the load of the spine in modern humans is almost never distributed evenly, and osteochondrosis is characterized by damage to the intervertebral discs. Every year, this disease is increasingly suffering from the population around the world. At any age, one can begin to suffer from pain, seizures and other manifestations of osteochondrosis, which, among other things, also causes a number of other diseases. The development of the disease is influenced not only by hereditary factors or age -related changes as before, but also a deteriorating environmental position, food products that bring more harm to 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 osteochondrosis of the cervical spine (cervical osteochondrosis).
The main causes of osteochondrosis of the cervical region
The modern world, despite the progressive methods of treatment, the development of science and medical technologies, is still facing various types of spinal diseases. Among the important causes of osteochondrosis may be called the following:
1. Causes of an objective character, in the presence of which should be paid special attention to your own spine
- Hereditary predisposition: Osteochondrosis can be inherited. If relatives suffer from such a disease, you should take all possible preventive measures to prevent its development
- Age -related changes: with age, the body itself is increasingly producing nutrients, which should also maintain a spine in health. In order for osteochondrosis to develop more slowly, you need to take care of his condition in the youth
2. The reasons related to a person's lifestyle. They are easy to remove if they are not stable and even better to follow the principles of a healthy lifestyle immediately
- Nutrition: What a person eats directly affects his health. The noticeable, rapid improvement is the rejection of salt, sugar, flour and fatty dishes from the consumption of products that include preservatives and dyes, chocolate and alcohol. On the contrary, you should include in the diet those products that help build bones and cartilage (eg yoghurt products)
- Excess weight: The natural consequence of malnutrition is weight gain that leads to an increase in the load of the vertebrae
- Hypothermia: All type of hypothermia, drafts, should be avoided. If this happened, it happened quickly for treatment that brought it to the end
- Harms of spine inevitably will eventually affect his condition
- Hypodynamia: Little mobility has a negative effect on the functioning of all parts of the spine
- Intoxication also affects the intervertebral discs, prevents the absorption of useful micro and macro elements. Smoking and alcohol are the main causes of body intoxication
- Stress: It seems that lack of sleep, depression, negative emotional state are not related to the discomfort that is tested with osteochondrosis of the cervical spine. However, this is not the case
Symptoms of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine
The treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine should begin as early as possible. Like any advanced disease, it is treated much more difficult and the consequences affect the whole body. Sometimes the symptoms of osteochondrosis are attributed to other diseases. In case of abnormalities, you should consult a doctor immediately and review your lifestyle. Symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis include:
- Pain, mainly in the back area, between shoulder blades, in the neck
- Shoulder
- Tingling fingers (mainly during sleep)
- If, due to the development of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine, the cerebral circulation is disturbed, one is often dizzy, the so -called "flies" glow before his eyes
- Angina's legs can be false - with cervical hotel osteochondrosis, fake angina is often found
- Headache
- In some cases, with osteochondrosis of the cervical region, there is even worsening of vision
- Noise, congestion, ringing in the ears. In some cases, hearing deterioration is possible
- Due to the pain of the head of the head are limited
- Lack of oxygen that can be expressed in shortness of breath, snoring, and increased fatigue
- Nausea and sometimes vomit
- Fluctuations in blood pressure
In the absence of proper treatment, the symptoms may take more forms: for example, paralysis of the upper limbs may occur, hernia often occurs in the cervical area, sleep is impaired due to pain, memory worsens.
Methods for the treatment and prevention of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine
Diet. An important factor leading to the successful treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical region is the adherence to the diet, which does not mean abandoning most products with osteochondrosis, on the contrary, mono-diet, scarce nutrition are opposite. To lose weight, you must stick to a partial power 4-5 times a day.
What products are important for the restoration of cartilage tissue:
- meat (low fat, not fried)
- Fish and seafood
- Dairy products including cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt
- olive oil
- Vegetables and fruits, both fresh, not preserved, or be subjected to any other processing. Broccoli, green, dates are particularly rich in so needed for osteochondrosis through calcium
- Groups
- Nuts and seeds
- Eggs
- Magnesium can "supply" bananas, cucumbers, oatmeal, dried apricots, legumes
Products from which, with osteochondrosis of the neck, you will need to refuse:
- bakery and sweet
- Fat, spicy, salty food
- canned food
- carbonated and alcoholic beverages
- Fast food
- pork and sausages
- Strong tea and coffee
With osteochondrosis you should drink 2, 5 - 3 liters of clean water, other drinks, soups are not taken into account.
Physiotherapy procedures. This type of treatment has long established itself as an excellent method of reducing pain and edema, improving blood microcirculation, relaxation and removal of toxins. Among the physiotherapy procedures in modern medical practice, a whole set of options: 
- Electrophoresis and galvanization
- Ultra frequency procedures (UHF)
- Magnetotherapy
- Ultraviolet
- Paraffin and mud baths
- The massage of the collar area
Medicines. In severe pain, medicines are taken to reduce them to relieve inflammation. In order to complete the lack of micro and macro -elements in the body, it is recommended to take vitamins and nutritional supplements that can restore the necessary balance, which is difficult to achieve only with the help of food products these days. The good effect on the cervical region has ointments designed to reduce inflammation and pain
Medical physical education. Traffic provides an opportunity to take a different position. Since the modern man is inactive and more often spends time sitting or lying down, gymnastics to strengthen the spine is simply irreplaceable. Exercises should not cause pain, discomfort and also injure. With osteochondrosis of the cervical region, physiotherapy exercises are aimed at strengthening the neck muscles:
- Lying on the stomach, carefully lift your head (straight back), hold it in this position for 1-2 minutes, lower it
- In the same position, turn your head to the left to the right
- An exercise that is easy to perform during the work day sitting on the table: with your palms, resting on the forehead, forever resist ("ass"), then cross your hands on the back of your head and also rest your head in your palms, resistance.
- This exercise also does not require special conditions for performing: turning the head left and right, tilting the head in both directions to the shoulders, tilting the head back -back and rotating the head. It is better to do these exercises sitting slowly, during dizziness, interruption
- Because the cervical area is directly related to other parts of the spine, it is important to strengthen your back: for this you should lie on your back, tighten your legs to your chest and roll (you must be done on a hard surface); Lying on your back, put your feet in a chair and pull your head on your knees; kneeling, squeezing arms behind his back trying to get his knees with his forehead
It is recommended that the exercises be performed regularly, at least a few minutes a day, otherwise the effect will be minimal. You also need to organize a place to sleep properly: the appropriate mattress (not pushed, with a flat, dense surface) and, which is extremely important with osteochondrosis of the neck of the collar area, should also lie a special hard pillow with a certain shape for the correct position of the head and neck during sleep, should also lie on the bed.
Folk remedies. Despite the fact that osteochondrosis is a scourge of a modern person, humans have long suffered from this disease and therefore traditional medicine has many recipes to eliminate pain, edema, improvement of general condition and prevention:
- For outdoor use at home, you can make ointments and rub: the red elderberry fruits are poured with 2/3 with alcohol and are worth it in a week - then this friction can be used; Cool cones are rubbed with butter and rubbed into the collar area
- For internal use, decoctions are made, boiled, herbal teas are boiled: herbal teas are recommended to be cooked on the basis of a St. John case, a bell, a hop - 2 tablespoons of grass on 0, 5 liters of water, and then take for half an hour. For half an hour, filtered and taken in several techniques during the day.
By taking measures to treat osteochondrosis of the cervical spine, remember that preventing the disease is always more effective. In addition, any disease requires an integrated approach to treatment, as the effect must be provided on the whole body as a whole.