Obviously, many people have encountered such a disease as osteochondrosis. Doctors consider this disease a popular illness and more specifically accuse him, low mobility inherent in the current lifestyle. The second reason is alcohol and diet. The same factors can cause an exacerbation of a sleeping disease. One of the widespread osteochondrosis of the neck is considered. It also causes the most frequent exacerbations, since it is this area of location - the neck, with its mobile, small vertebrae and the lack of powerful muscle corset, is subject to pathological influences to the maximum extent.
The main danger is that the disease has different stages and is not intensified by the first. The intervertebral discs begin to experience destruction as soon as the disease begins, but at the beginning the degeneration is small. So far, only discomfort in the cervical zone and occasionally pain from sick nature allow you to guess for the appearance of osteochondrosis.
According to the range of symptoms, it is not always possible to determine what stage of the disease the patient is. But exacerbation can be recognized unequivocally, as this phenomenon has special symptoms.
It is not always easy to determine the stage of the disease by analyzing the symptoms, since sometimes the degree of degradation of bone-reduction may not match the symptoms observed in the patient
Important! The first serious "signal" receives the brain when the disease moves to the second stage. The pain progresses noticeably. A syndrome with the name "falling head" may occur (if you keep the head, the pain weakens).
As the third stage of noticeable changes in pain do not occur, but nausea and dizziness are added to the symptom, the sensitivity in the hands may also decrease.
The fourth stage without proper treatment can lead to the need for surgery.
Why the disease worsens It should be noted that the exacerbation process does not depend on the stage, it can arise from each of them, from the original to the latter. Excess always precedes the reasons. Their main list looks like this.
The patient made sharp movements. Excessive loading was provided at the neck area. There was weight lifting or their long -term movement. The patient is in a state of stress or the situation when it is nervous. The massage made by a specialist. Or the specialist does not know about the presence of osteochondrosis in the patient as he does not warn him. There are sharp fluctuations in weather conditions. The patient received a whole body hypothermia or grabbed his neck. After a bath or sauna, the patient is immersed in the hole or just cold water. The patient's age is significant at which the intervertebral discs are deleted and damaged due to age thesis. If osteochondrosis is not treated, at any stage, exacerbations will surely occur sooner or later. Symptoms of exacerbation of osteochondrosis of the neck should be known and well understood, different from signs of other vertebrates.
Symptoms of exacerbation The brightness of the severity of the symptoms depends on the stage of pathologists and the degree of its progression.
Their list is the following.
Pain in the crown of the crown. Reducing skin sensitivity of the parietal area. Pain on one side of the neck. Pain in the clavicle and shoulder. The weight of the language. Breathing with breathing is not even. Heart region soreness. Manifestations of pain in the right hypochondrium. Headache with pressure on the eyes or one headache only on her part. The peg that is distributed in the cervical area in the back during inclination, nods of the head or its order. Fog in the eyes, spots or points, auditory disorders and ringing in the ear. Soreness and weakening of the muscles in the hands, next to the brush. It is difficult not to pay attention to these symptoms, and yet there are patients who, even in the situation, are in no hurry to see a doctor but try to help themselves with home remedies.
Council. With exacerbation, you should provide first aid as quickly as possible, and the doctor should prescribe it. If the patient is home alone, it is better to call a doctor at the house.
First aid and treatment So treatment should be prescribed by a specialist, therefore, if the exacerbation finds that the patient at home alone, the doctor's call is quite determined. Before the doctor arrives, it is necessary to behave as follows.
Limit movement as much as possible. Lie in bed and have no physical exertion. Let's make painkillers, the best decision in this case will be Analin and his group. Expect your doctor's arrival.Medication The doctor will prescribe anabolics and medicines to remove drugs, which is inevitable to exacerbate. Medicines for joints will also be prescribed that will help change the destructive processes in the discs or at least reduce the speed indicators of their manifestations. They will have to take them for a long time, at least six months. But they will help prevent subsequent exacerbations of the disease.
Preparations belonging to the group of muscle relaxants may also be prescribed patients to weaken pathological tension in the muscles. Plus, vascular and diuretic drugs, nootropes and V-vitamins can be prescribed.
By the way. With severe exacerbation, accompanied by severe pain, a procedure called the blockade may be prescribed when the injection into the novocaine is performed directly in the area of the affected vertebra, quickly supplying the medicine intended and thus eliminating pain.
Without medicine In addition to pills and injections, a set of measures that have not been destroyed is a must. These include:
Physiotherapy Physical Education; physiotherapy; Massage. Physical Classes in the form of specially designed gymnastics are an effective way of facilitating the course of exacerbation of osteochondrosis of the neck and reducing its intensity. It is necessary regularly under the conditions of the Center for Physical Education or Home, to perform exercises that will strengthen the muscles. Muscle tissue will help the spine maintain the segments weakened by the lesion by removing the load from them and fills in the lack of their functionality.
Physiotherapy This type of therapy has a minimum number of contraindications, but there is a wide range of useful effects. The physiotherapy kit may include:
ultrasound; laser therapy; magnetotherapy; Electrophoresis. Magnetotherapy The latter is done with medicines or chemicals that can speed up the process of stopping exacerbation.
Massage This is necessarily shown, as only a regular massage course will reduce muscle tone, cancel the spasm, reduce swelling, arranging the leakage of the lymph and normalizing blood circulation. All this, in turn, will stop the process of destroying the disk.
Other methods In order to reduce the load on the neck, both during the exacerbation and after it, provided that the work is sitting, it is recommended to wear a collar of Chanstz. This orthopedic device will keep the neck in the normal position, eliminating the load on the muscles and vertebrae.
It is also important to organize a port equipped not only with a solid orthopedic mattress, but also by a pillow that prevents the neck of the neck.
Exacerbation information How much exacerbation can last, what force will be an attack, how soon there is an exacerbation again - this and other information is often interested in patients. The exacerbation phases are carried out in different ways.
Important! If treatment begins immediately after the onset of the attack and the therapy is adequate, the peak of the disease will decrease several days later. If left untreated, exacerbation can last weeks and cause serious consequences.
With the untimely treatment of increased cervical osteochondrosis, the attack can disappear slightly, but it does not stop, which means that it will not be single. A series of exacerbations will follow, the gaps between which will be reduced, and the pain in the attack process will intensify.
So that the exacerbation does not return If at least once in his life the patient experiences exacerbation of cervical osteochondrosis, he will surely want the attacks not to be repeated anymore. This can be done if you make a serious prevention of exacerbations.
By the way. With exacerbation, intensive treatment is performed, which in addition to the drug carries a whole complex of other procedures. But as the therapy is over, the patient relaxes, believing that the danger has passed. This is not because without supporting the measures, there may be an exacerbation in the near future.
What can be done so that the relapse becomes rare.
Find an experienced massage therapist and take a course of fixing effect on massage treatment. Contact a manual therapist. Observe the diet regimen, abandoning harmful products in this situation and introducing an increased dose of magnesium and potassium in the diet. Start regularly engaged in physical activity and swimming. In everyday life it is recommended to follow general preventive recommendations. Welcome to a long sitting, perform tourism, do not overeat and prevent obesity. It is also very important to treat the disease immediately at the first signs without waiting for exacerbation. Osteochondrosis is kovaren, it can hide for a while and then return to the most unexpected moment, causing severe pain, which will become an obstacle to full existence.
