Osteochondrosis is a common disease of the spine, characterized by the change in dysplasia in the structure of the cartilage disks of the vertebrae and their bone basis.
At one degree or another, osteoarthritis manifests itself in most people after 30 years. Symptoms of cervical joint disease are very diverse, often complicated diagnosis and subsequent treatment.
Causes of cervical joint diseasePart of the development of osteoarthritis of the neck of sin, the sadness of modern people and the corresponding load distribution along the spine, as well as the natural aging processes of the body tissue, in addition, there are some development and progression activities of this pathology:
Sedentary lifestyle;
Stay for a long time in the same position at work;
excess body weight;
Continuous injury of the spine in the neck;
Chronic tension, continuous nervous tension;
Lower the regular body of the muscles of the collar area (for example, when it is near the air flow from the air conditioner);
Normal vertebra and disc.
General symptoms and signs of cervical joint diseaseThe bone and joint process affects any spine or many times at once. The lumbar vertebrae and cervix are most affected by pathologies, because the most easily loaded due to human skeletal surgery.
The consequences of spinal osteoarthritis in the cervix causes the most inconvenience and the most potential complication, because the neck is an area rich in neurological highway, many of which nourish the brain directly.
For this reason, clinical symptoms with cervical joint disease are related to ischemia of the brain area. In addition, nerve roots, providing sensitivity and movement activity of the hands and shoulders, when tightening with destroyed vertebrates can create many symptoms.
Signs of neck and joint disease depend on which body system is affected by pathology:
Blood circulation is broken by compressing vertebral arteries to identify most brain symptoms.
Root compression leaves the vertebra for a picture of the damage of peripheral nerves.
The compression of spinal cord areas is related to serious neurological diseases found in advanced cases.
Below, consider the common clinic of osteoarthritis of the cervical spine.
Pain in the back of the head, neck and collarThis is the most common symptom. Inlandization of pain can be expanded, affecting the shoulders, collarbone, chest, turning into strong migraine.
The nature of pain depends on the position of the lesion and the severity of the pathology. At first, the pain may quickly fleet, gradually becoming chronic and painful.
In more severe moments, the pain becomes a shooting, with a tune of the neck muscle and the limited movement of the head.
Typically, pain in cervical joint disease can be located behind the sternum, in which case, many patients use this symptom for angina. The difference can be done by taking a nitroglycerin tablet - pain due to osteoarthritis, they are not removed.
Noise, bells, obstruction in the earThese symptoms are often involved in hearing loss. These phenomena are related to reducing blood flow from vertebral arteries to vestibular equipment.
The complexity of these symptoms is called snail, or snail syndrome, and is always possible to determine its connection with osteoarthritis in the cervical area.
A specific feature for the difference is noise, congestion and in the ears are felt when changing the position, after a long time in a position.
DizzyDizziness is also due to violations of blood flow to the organs of the inner ear, ensuring the balance of the body. Nystagm often participates in a rapidly - arbitrary fluctuations in the pupils on both sides.
InhalationThis feeling appears due to stimulation of the nerves of the diaphragm. It is a component of the cervical nerve beam and is associated with its breathing, depth and frequency. Patients complain about the inability to fully breathe.
In some cases, symptoms worsen the severe breathing of breath and suffocate. For the same reason, the breath stops at night and snoring.
The disadvantage of oxygen due to the ultimate respiratory problems is the cause of fatigue, concentration and memory problems.
NauseaIt comes with belching air. Also due to problems with blood circulation in some areas of the brain and inner ears. Nausea is sometimes observed with vomiting that cannot be stimulated by head and body movements. The consequence of nausea and vomiting often is to reduce appetite, weight loss, failure.
Problem with visionThe flies in the eyes, reduced vision, fog in the immediate future - these are all symptoms of ischemia of the brain area responsible for vision.
Patients with osteoarthritis complain less commonly about vision, because the lack of blood supply from vertebrae is compensated by blood flow from the carbon artery system.
Glasses and gymnastics for eye muscles do not solve the problem, usually improved vision after treatment of osteoarthritis.
Blood pressure boardA level of unstable pressure is due to the weak blood flow in the turbulent brain responsible for the functions of the center of blood vessel motivation.
Suddenly fainting, or a state of synchronizationIt occurs with the spasm of the arteries of the brain due to the short -term stop of blood flow along the vertebrae.
From the patient's loss of consciousness, you can quickly be removed by placing it a little higher than the head - blood flow to the brain allows a person to lead to life.
After a fainting attack, problems can be reversed with words and motion, due to a short stop of blood flow, which can be observed for a while.
Green symptomsOften it can be the only sign that cervical bone disease. They are shown as a sweat, dry and the feeling of a tumor in the throat, the difficulties of swallowing. Symptoms are associated with the compression of a nerve puppet responsible for the preservation of the throat. It is necessary to distinguish such manifestations from a similar clinic for inflammation or new birth.
Increase body temperatureThe increase in body temperature for cervical joint disease is not the most typical symptom, it is rarely observed and local: in the cervix and collar, with a little red of the skin.
The clinic of osteoarthritis in the cervical spine is possible, first, at a different level of severe seriousness, it depends on the stage of pathological development, also in a worse period, they are brighter, and second, formed in some syndrome.
Symptoms depending on the stage of cervical joint diseaseStage I
The beginning of the degenerative processes in the cartilage of the vertebrae. Weak symptoms, sometimes it may not be observed at all. The first sign of osteoarthritis of the cervical spine:
Discomfort in the neck, arms, shoulders, sometimes turning into pain;
headache;
Easy to limit the motor activities of the neck;
quickly overcome visual decline;
Reduce the skin sensitivity of the collar area.
Important: These symptoms become more pronounced when tilting their heads.
As a rule, in the first phase of osteoarthritis in the cervix, the patient did not go to the doctor, believing that all symptoms were related to fatigue, stress, age, and lack of sleep.
Phase II
At this stage, the protruding of the vertebrates begins, the narrow intervertebral cracks, the collagen fibers of the bracelet of the plate are destroyed. There are notable pain symptoms of the point nature due to the compression of the nerves, enhancing in the movements of the neck and turning the head. Here you can doubt the cervical joint disease, the symptoms in the second phase are as follows:
Pronunciation of pain in the neck, sometimes crispy;
The skin of the shoulders and hands loses almost completely sensitivity;
Headache is often, not overcome for a long time;
Visual impairment with "flies" in the eyes;
bells and noise in the ears;
The weakness of the muscles of the above limbs;
The clarity of tendon reflexes is reduced;
Painful shooting with dedication under the shoulder tongue;
The feeling of a lump in the throat, the problem of swallowing;
Sleep disorders, usually insomnia.
Long holds his head in a position that leads to severe pain. At the stage of disease development, the patient went to the doctor for help.
Stage III
The fibrous ring in the disk is destroyed, the hernia is formed. In the third phase, there is a deformation of the spine, the movement and dislocations of the vertebra due to their weakness. The symptoms are as follows:
Pain, acute pain in the neck, collar area, heart area;
The sensitivity of the scalp at the back of the head, shoulder, in hand, until completely absent;
The hernia of the cervical spine;
Paresis and paralysis of the above limbs;
Reflection tends to actually not observed.
This is a serious stage of the disease that patients can no longer support themselves. Muscular anemia and the compression of spinal arteries lead to paralysis and paresis in other parts of the body and spine stroke.
Syndrome caused by cervical joint diseaseNon -specific and a large number of different symptoms accompanied by osteoarthritis of the cervical spine makes it difficult to diagnose and treat more, as some of them can be a sign of completely different diseases. Symptoms of cervical joints are formed in some groups called syndrome. Their presence and severity may indicate a disease in the cervical spine with a localized indicator.
A group of regular syndrome is found:
Koreshka. On the other hand, called cervical radioactive inflammation. It combines symptoms related to the violation of the nerve root of the neck vertebra. The celebrities of the Viking people in the affected area, tingling in their fingers, forearms, skin tapest, spread to some fingers are characteristic.
The reflexes are not solemn. Acute burning and pain in the back of the head and neck, sometimes with the return to the chest and shoulders, occurs at the time of changing the position of the head and neck, when sneezing, coughing and turning the head.
The vertebral artery syndrome includes:
Headache, pain or continuous, pounding in nature;
Uncomfortable in some movements, including after a long stinging position;
Weaknesses, nausea, loss of consciousness;
Hearing reduction, problems with equilibrium state;
Reduce vision.
Heart. Almost the same image with pectoris angina often leads to improper diagnosis and treatment. The syndrome appears due to stimulation of the receptors of the diaphragm nerve, which partially fascinated the pericardium and a large chest muscle. Therefore, cramps in the heart area are more reflexes, as an assessment of the stimulation of cervical nerves. Symptom:
Suddenly starting, prolonged pain, enhancement with a sharp movement of the neck, cough, sneezing, not through heart medication.
ECG does not show the blood flow of the heart muscle.
Sometimes extracellular and tachycardia may be available.
Plant-diabit syndrome. Sess subluxus of the first vertebrae of cervical departure with shift can lead to the development of plant vascular dysplasia. It is not a certain diagnosis of VVD, as it has no pronunciation symptoms.
There may be neurological signs, symptoms of weakened blood flow, intracranial pressure, muscle cramps.
Therefore, the complaints of patients suffer from dizziness, vision loss, loss of consciousness, headache, nausea.
How to treat cervical joint diseaseThe description of the spine is a very serious disease, in which, abandoned, leading to defects and the result of deep disorders of brain circulation - and death. For this reason, by giving yourself, if such symptoms appear, you should not do it.
Osteochondrosis is treated in a hospital and at home exclusively as a doctor's prescription.
In the early stages, the treatment of cervical joint disease is conservative, including prescription drugs: anti -inflammatory drugs not caused by drugs, anesthesia, hormonal drugs
During the acute period, the drug was prescribed in the form of injection, when the pain decreased, the patient went into the tablet. Physical therapy, massage, exercise, often prescribed at the stage of improvement, participating in drug courses. In difficult cases, osteoarthritis is treated with surgery.
PreventThe basis of the health of the cervical spine is a strong and healthy back, physical activity, a comfortable bed with anatomical pillows and mattresses, appropriate posture and appropriate nutrition.
It is the value to avoid neck injuries and lift weights. It is necessary to combine the persistent sitting with rest time and warmth.
Recovery forecastThe prognosis for eligible and timely treatment is favorable, but depends heavily on the age of the patient, the severity of the manifestations and the stage of the disease. It is also important in which the person performs health recommendations on nutrition, lifestyle and eliminating bad habits.
ConclusionTherefore, in most cases, osteoarthritis of the cervix can be cured. However, the memorable thing is that this disease can return at any time. In order to prevent this, it is necessary to observe preventive measures and a healthy lifestyle.
In addition, it is memorable:
The cause of osteoarthritis is difficult to set.
Symptoms of the disease are pain behind the head and neck.
Cervical joint diseases are comprehensively treated: drugs (mainly NSAID), massage, exercise therapy.
