The disease, which spills over into the chronic form and causes damage to the intervertebral discs and the cartilage is called osteochondrosis of the spine. Begins to develop normally after 25-30 years, chronic occurs already closer to 40 years. Low back pain is one of the most common causes of back pain.
What is the back pain
This term refers to disease that affects the tissue of the spinal column. With the time of the spinal column shrinks and crushes the discs. These disks need to strengthen and mobility of the vertebrae. The size of the intervertebral discs change, receive insufficient food, and cease to perform its functions. During the execution phase of osteoarthritis of the back can result hernia, or the curvature of the spine. Often the disease is the cause of the disability.
Causes
The real causes of this disease, as osteochondrosis of the spine are yet unknown to doctors, but there are some factors of the development of the disease, such as, for example:
- Congenital and acquired of the grass of the spine due to frequent falls and bumps.
- A bad genetics and diseases of the vertebral column in general.
- Advanced age, excess weight.
- Flat foot, disorders of posture, and other diseases of the muscular system.
- Violation of the metabolism.
- A sedentary life-style and atrophied muscle.
- Sudden movements or too strong a load on the muscles and the bones, asymmetrical movement during workouts or work.
- An unbalanced diet, smoke, use drugs and alcohol.
- Unfavorable environmental conditions — too high humidity, low temperature and poor ecology.
- Wear the wrong shoes and high heels.
This is only the main factors that influence the development and course of the disease. The disease occurs in persons engaged in heavy physical labor. For example, weight-lifters, porters, athletes or builders. Stress, lack of physical exercise and diet can also cause the development of diseases such as osteochondrosis of the spine.
Osteochondrosis spine of the adult and its classification
The development of the disease can already start in adolescence, when the spine simply do not have time to grow. But with the time this problem disappears. Children move a lot, exercise and a balanced diet with a high content of vitamins help to forget of osteochondrosis.
But with consenting adults, everything is different. Osteochondrosis of the vertebral column in adults is associated with advancing age, and that is poor nutrition and circulation of the cartilage and bone tissue. The intervertebral discs in the adult are distinguished by their structure, they have their own blood, and then receive food and oxygen to other tissues. Provide the nutrition of cartilage tissue — the main task in the fight against osteochondrosis. This can only be done by performing exercises that are suitable for muscle group in the back. It will also help you physiotherapy, massage, and proper nutrition.
According to scientists in the UNITED states the incidence increases with each year.
Osteochondrosis of the vertebral column in adults in the united States is detected more than 30% of the population and this figure is increasing every year. Appears more often in men who prefer a sedentary lifestyle, or are engaged in heavy physical labor. In Russia, the numbers are even more sad. More than 50% of the adult population lose the ability to work because of problems with the nervous system and muscle-skeletal.
The pain in the back, neck and head to reduce the desire for life. The man becomes passive and irritable. Often depression due to the deterioration of health. Usually the back pain has a number of concomitant diseases, such as chronic emotional surge, migraine, and heart disease system.
Osteochondrosis spine: symptoms and diagnosis
The symptoms of this disease is expressed, and confused with something difficult.
In the initial phase to determine the low back pain you need to remember only a few important signs and seek qualified help.
In total there are 4 types of diseases: cervical, lumbar, thoracic, and mixed, that is, in different places of the spine.
The symptoms depending on the type of a little different:
- For degenerative disc disease of the lumbar is peculiar to incessant back pain, which sometimes passes, but often replaced by acute attacks.
- Back pain may increase during exercise or sudden movements.
- Often the pain change shot. You can donate the organs of the small pelvis, sacrum, and also in walking distance.
- The sensitivity of the foot partially broken, and with more stroke module and does not disappear.
- A man is hard to bend and the turns bust, sick and trying to maintain the same posture not to deliver itself discomfort.
The symptoms of cervical degenerative disc disease is slightly different:
- There are frequent headaches, which persist even after the use of pain killers, are amplified when you turn the head and slopes.
- The patient may feel a strong dizziness when moving the head.
- The pain of cervical me in the back, arms, chest.
- Often occurs a deterioration of sight and hearing, in front of my eyes spots appear one dark, it is difficult to focus the eyes on an object.
- You may feel numbness of the tongue, but also a remarkable change in the voice.
Thoracic back pain can often be confused with the neck of view, but there are a couple of distinctive things:
- The patient may feel pain in the chest, back and arms.
- With hypothermia comes a marked deterioration, painful syndrome is also enhanced at night or during physical activities.
- Often a person difficult to take deep breaths and exhales, the rib cage as if it were paralyzed.
- On the skin appear goosebumps, or burning, quickly freeze the hands and the feet.
- The pain is amplified when you are walking or running.
Diagnostics
To make the diagnosis, the doctor looks around the patient in different positions, standing, lying, sitting, in movement and at rest. Then, with the advice and it is important to honestly tell you all her complaints, even though the pain is slightly improved when you cough or sneeze. This may also affect further diagnosis. To confirm or vice versa, has denied the presence of the disease prescribed a series of further hardware search. Some of the most popular types is the magnetic RESONANCE, radiography and computed tomography.
Osteochondrosis spine, the symptoms of which often help bring out a couple of diseases such as kyphosis, hernia and protrusion of the disc, must be determined by your doctor.
It's not worth self-medication and to postpone visits to the doctor into oblivion. This depends not only on the presence of back pain, but full of life.
Osteochondrosis of the vertebral column: the pharmacological treatment and rapid
The therapy of this dangerous disease is divided into 2 types and conservative interventions. Choosing the right treatment can only specialist, the patient often is required, and the advice of many doctors, neurologist, surgeon, and dental traumatology.
Most forms in the execution of the disease can only be resolved with the help of an operation. Next, you need a conservative treatment, which helps to recover the body. The post-operative period includes massage, physical therapy and diet.
Pharmacological treatment
Often the doctor prescribes the identification of such disease, as osteochondrosis of the spine, the treatment of medicines. Its combine with a diet that includes a diet of vitamins and minerals. A large consumption of vitamins necessary for taking medicines, in the way that they have not had a negative impact on the bones, the cardiovascular system and GASTROINTESTINAL tract.
The treatment of degenerative disc disease of the spine with the help of drugs can include several different types:
- The application of painkillers and anti-inflammatory medications.
- Spasmolytic complex.
- Antioxidants.
- The microcirculation of the blood.
- Medicines for the recovery of cartilage tissue.
But it's not worth to hope only for medicines. It is often "passive" treatment does not give the desired results, and sometimes it is not useless to the method. It is important to not only wait for improvements, and to make your health and fitness. Also during the execution of the form patients allowed a series of physical exercises to improve muscle tone and improve circulation.
Conservative treatment must always be composed of a variety of techniques, such as, for example:
- Medical gymnastics.
- Chiropractic and massage.
- Physiotherapy and medical aids.
- A balanced diet and work with the state of mind in the event of stress.
In many cases, patients helps PHYSIOTHERAPY, massage and chiropractic. Most of the doctors are trying to do less in drug-free treatment, as well as all the medicines not only cure, but inflict damage to the body.
Massage and chiropractic
Often patients are sent to treatment at the chiropractor therapists. But this is only the prevention of a disease or a great way to relieve acute attacks of pain. The procedure must be performed step-by-step only by experts. Often, patients can undergo a massage or even acupuncture. The choice of massage should be treated with extreme caution as any wrong move can deliver the pain and also trauma of the spine.
Acupuncture helps to normalize hormones, ease the pain and spasms, restoring tone to the muscles.
Physical education
Increase the effectiveness of the massage and drug administration is possible with exercise. But you should remember that fulfil their need to be regularly and without fanaticism. It is also possible to practice sports during the attacks of the disease. You must first remove the aggravation. Special series of exercises should take the doctor, depends on the stage of the disease. But more often it is the simple gymnastics without any sudden movements.
Physical THERAPY helps relieve pain, reinforce the muscle and eliminate the spasms. Technique of massage and gymnastics, often to the possibility of putting in the second floor, the use of medicinal products.
Physiotherapy
This procedure is an important part of treatment. The patient is in a period of post-operative rehabilitation, or as a complement to the basic treatment can assign the following types of therapy:
- Shockwave method.
- The magnetic therapy.
- The laser treatment.
- Balneotherapy.
- Detensor or the unloading of the spine.
- Vibro.
Each method has a positive effect on the body, but immediately these procedures should for the purpose and under the supervision of a doctor.
Treatment folk remedies
Remove pain cramps or pain can and traditional methods. For example, rubbing from a variety of herbs and roots, from the wool of sheep, or bee venom.
Many folk remedies can be used both inside and outside — rubbing, compresses and baths. But they need to know, it is not because of if you have an to allergy to some components. Particular attention should be paid to the rastertime and ointments based on poisonous plants. Also, some plants are able to decrease the effect of medications. It is important to consult a specialist before combination with the treatment.
Many rubbing and applications allow the effect of heating that provides the blood flow to the damaged discs.
Sheep or dog to relieve the pain, and also cramping and swelling. Well heated sore point. Also heat your lower back pain will help the application of kerosene and soap. For this you will need to moisten the fabric, natural, kerosene, press and insaponarsi her. The fabric should attach to the skin and wrap a warm scarf. Let it rest for 1-2 hours, the bandage is necessary to remove any discomfort.
Diet
The salt is what must be abandoned in the first place, in the presence of degenerative disc disease. But it is important to gradually reduce the quantity of this product. Also exclude from their diet need to coffee, soft drinks, carbonated and too sweet food. When the excess weight it is recommended that you remove baked goods and bread are normal, replace the muffins with bran or dry biscuits.
The main part of the diet should consist of animal protein — meat, poultry, fish, milk and eggs. On fruits and vegetables should not be forgotten. A variety of vitamins contains in cabbage, peppers, carrots, celery, and parsley! The purchase price of mayonnaise and sunflower oil is better to replace the olive oil with a few tablespoons of lemon juice.
For the recovery of cartilage tissue is important to consume vitamins A, C, D, B, calcium, magnesium, and manganese. All of this contains a large quantity of products available — nuts, cheese, fresh lettuce, fish of the sea and the butter. The patient is required to provide a great supply of calcium with magnesium, otherwise the calcium is not included and will be washed from the bones, which influence negatively on the dynamics of treatment.
Complications
If you do not cure any disease, it causes complications. Low back pain can develop sciatica, hernia, hypertension, and neuralgia intercostal.
The more heavy the consequences is stroke and heart attack, and also the inflammation of the sciatic nerve. One of the most dangerous complications is the pressure of the vertebral arteries. Exactly expressed in the brain of oxygen, without this high risk of problems with the cardiovascular system, disorders of hearing and of sight.
Prevention
To avoid this kind of disturbances are necessary for the regular practice of sports, yoga, swimming, running.
Take care of the correct posture, and also chairs with a rigid back, that will keep the back situated in a wonderful location. A good prevention will become a special massage mattress.
Try not to wear the gravity in one hand and not do asymmetrical exercises, workout after workout.
Choose shoes with the right shape and shock-absorbing outsole.
The food is an important element in the fight with osteochondrosis, therefore, follow a proper diet is one of the most important rules.