Lower back pain is not in vain back pain. Health and spine of the spinal cord, associated with the finest nerve fibres with all the internal organs, affecting the heart, kidneys, lungs, gastrointestinal tract and, and even your Overall fitness. Maybe you will be surprised, but may also be due to depression, the tragic events in a person's life, but because of the unnecessary destruction of the cervical vertebrae to pinch the nerves related to the brain. How to treat folk remedies, this disease.
Osteochondrosis is a serious and very unpleasant disease. Often It is accompanied by pain in the lumbosacral region and one of the lower limbs. The latest medical information, is the main cause of back pain degenerative (destructive) processes of the intervertebral discs. Osteochondrosis of the intervertebral disc is a special cartilage structures that provide and our spine the flexibility of movement to become faulty. When osteochondrosis progresses, irreversible changes in the paid vertebrae.
Osteoarthritis Causes
Causes of osteoarthritis can be set so the use of the camera to pay for as it is impossible to name one, the most important. Negative factors are superimposed on one another and the result is disease.
With age, the cartilage loses elasticity, the less will be the and durable. This level of, the intervertebral discs are poorly restored after the stress. Uncompensated burden on one side of the body slowly but surely undermines the health of the spine: sitting in an asymmetrical position, transfer the weight with one hand, keeping a certain posture for a long time (e.g., kun reading lying on one side), abused, and pillows mattresses for sleeping (the head is at an angle to the body, the body is uneven). This can cause bulging of the intervertebral disc compression and comes out at the corresponding vertebral nerve. And it starts already the disease, which this involves the allocation of authority.
Malnutrition is closely associated with another cause of lower back pain — obesity. The extra weight is not a pointless extra load on the spine, no muscle elasticity and reduce mobility. Carbohydrates fats in Abundance and food that get bored quickly, but these "empty" calories, do not give any benefit to the body - no vitamins, minerals, not energy. And without calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese and other trace elements, cartilage and bones become more porous collapse under faster and impact loads. So, unfortunately, have to give up sweets, fried, fried products and semi-finished products, go to the and diet consists of this popular place, fresh fruits and vegetables. Moderate should be consumption of cereals, sunflower and olive oil, cheese and cottage cheese. Meat, butter, fresh and pastries, fatty dairy products, salt, and coffee, will be severely restricted and to remove the latter preferably.
The previous two reasons, a third person is associated with — a violation of metabolism. Metabolism is the body's ability to take food and to deal with to absorb, to gain energy-and the very construction of cells. Typically, these processes are regulated automatically, when the process to maintain the internal balance of the mineral composition. Incoming food, the body takes exactly the amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and water, because he needs to normal operation. If, however, there is a deficit of some substances, disruption, protein, fat, carbohydrates, minerals and water metabolism. As a result of metabolic disorders of the skeletal system can become and osteoporosis, the deposition of salts — a frequent companion of osteoarthritis.
Flat feet, wearing uncomfortable shoes, high heels causes are also degenerative disc disease. Abnormalities in the structure and arch of the foot causes the spine too much to compensate for the load due to the process of walking, the body weight is distributed wrong.
Other causes: injury to the spine abnormalities of the vertebrae and the structure and the cartilage, lack of exercise, the effect we are discussing, if the physical Work heavy heavy and continuous lifting, does not give the spine the ability to recover, a sudden cessation of sports and weakening of the muscles stress, which can be pinched blood vessels and nerves extends from the brain.
Symptoms
When you may have a suspicion that your back is not okay and it is time to consult a specialist for diagnosis?
The onset of the disease can go unnoticed: sometimes in vain patients experience numbness or pain in a specific location in the spine, depending on the localization of the degenerative changes.
Depending on what the spine has become weak and succumbed to the ravages of osteoarthritis, you may experience the following symptoms.
When the cartilage between the vertebrae thinner wither become, yes holes in the narrow channels, respectively, the vertebral artery is pinched, the brain will produce symptoms of oxygen deprivation (headache, dizziness, anxiety). Currently, you can develop chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, a person experiences the constant lack of vitality.
Then the unconscious discomfort can be associated with headache, dizziness and, and hearing acuity, when it comes to the treatment of cervical degenerative disc disease.
Numbness and pain when moving the arms, belt, pain in the chest arise from the thoracic osteochondrosis.
Lumbar osteochondrosis is characterized by pain when walking, bending, repeated pelvic joint pain, pain in the and legs, and radiating to the groin.
All these means of talking about the violation of the physiological health of the spine, that it is not able to cope with the workload.
What does the term "osteochondrosis"? In translation from Greek osteon means "bone," chondro — "the cartilage", the end-use system is a non — inflammatory disease, but Usually it is a degenerative process, which is the aging of the cartilage and bone tissue.
What ny violations which parts are located in the spine, depending on the symptoms of osteoarthritis. Affect all areas of the spine, degenerative disc disease can affect the cervix, breast, intermediate departments and sciatica difficult, spondylosis, sciatica, "lumbago", intervertebral hernias.
Cervical osteochondrosis
Localization of degenerative disc disease in the neck (cervical osteochondrosis) occurs quite often. The cervical spine suffers the most people who do repetitive Work — designers, programmers, secretaries, dentists, watchmakers, etc. As a rule, the development of cervical degenerative disc disease contribute to driving and prolonged computer work. The main mark of and symptoms of cervical degenerative disc disease include: headache, dizziness, pain in the arm and in the chest, back pain, numbness of the tongue.
With cervical osteochondrosis often sick and dizzy, dark eyes, blood pressure rising. Through the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae in addition to the channel of the spinal cord is a channel called the vertebral artery. Its purpose is in the skull and nourishes the cerebellum, the vestibular apparatus and the neck of the sleeping centers and the base of the brain. The displacement of the vertebrae causes a reflex spasm of the vertebral artery, in severe cases, and, and his squeezing. Thus, disturbed blood circulation centers of balance and several autonomic centers that control vital processes. It is this process that so much has caused the diagnosis "vegeto-vascular dystonia".
Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine can present with radicular symptoms and (cervical radiculitis): pain radiates to the arms, and sometimes individual fingers, they are numb, constantly cold. The reason for this is the violation of the passage of the impulse along the nerve fibers. Numbness in your fingers, you can estimate the offset-especially in the vertebrae.
Thoracic osteochondrosis
The thoracic spine osteochondrosis very rarely affected. One of the main reasons for the development of thoracic degenerative disc disease is a curvature of the spine (scoliosis). As a rule, all the conditions for the future development of thoracic osteochondrosis formed still in school. The thoracic spine is the least mobile, so signs and chest symptoms of osteoarthritis are very different symptoms of cervical or lumbar degenerative disc disease. In most cases, the main difference between thoracic osteochondrosis is no sharp and pain in the English vain, dull, aching pain in the back.
Symptoms and signs of thoracic degenerative disc disease are: chest pain, numbness, tingling sensation in the chest, pain in the region of the heart, liver, stomach. Very often thoracic osteochondrosis masquerades as other diseases (e.g., angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, peptic ulcer, gastritis).
According to This, because its symptoms can be mixed, for example, myocardial infarction or pneumonia. Pain associated with degenerative disc disease of the thoracic spine, a long, similar to the intercostal neuralgia. The pain Sometimes can give in the shoulder blade, which makes you suspect a heart attack. The difference between coronary heart disease and intercostal neuralgia is that osteochondrosis patients have normal (or near normal) ecg no symptoms, such as sudden pallor, cyanosis, semlitsch skin, cold sweat, etc.
Thoracic degenerative disc disease, in addition that its associated with a variety of painful symptoms (pain, neurological reactions), the threat that causes severe development diseases of neighboring thoracic spine internal organs.
Lumbosacral osteochondrosis
Osteochondrosis Osteochondrosis of the lumbar spine the lumbar spine is the most common. This is due to the lower back (lumbar vertebrae), usually the main burden will fall. Most cases of lumbar degenerative disc disease can make it difficult for a herniated disc of the lumbar spine.
Symptoms and signs of lumbar degenerative disc disease include: low back pain (pain in the lower back trouble for many years and the person is characterized by cyclical, worsened in the autumn-winter period), limitation of mobility, pain in the legs. Very often, when lumbar osteochondrosis observed a sharp (shooting) or aching pain in the legs, some exciting leg part (eg. the rear-side or thigh). In addition, the Pain may be increase or decrease the sensitivity of the skin of the legs (thigh or leg) to touch or pain, these symptoms osteoarthritis explained pinched spinal roots.
The most common cause of intervertebral degenerative disc disease of the lumbosacral spine traumatic (compression fracture or chronic trauma).
The lumbar nerve roots, forming a so-called. the sciatic nerve, nervus ischiadicus, so the name of my complications — sciatica. If the infringement of nerve nerve pain spread along the trunk area of the buttocks, below the knee, sometimes to the calf or the heel. In advanced cases, can be significant malnutrition of the nerve trunk, so feet less numb. Symptoms loss of sensitivity is very stable, sometimes the numbness continues for a long time.
Sciatica started When a man limping, avoiding to carry the body weight on the painful side, bending in a healthy way, as much as possible to push the vertebrae of the affected part, and thus reduces compression on the spine. Time management as a result of the pain go or will the poi tolerable. If there is no spine decreased, there is still a curvature of the spine. In this case, the load of the intervertebral disc, which is already damaged, uneven, leading to its projection leads to a further and destroy.
The most unpleasant complication of lumbar-sacral osteochondrosis, instability of the vertebrae. Drive is not already fixed to the vertebrae under the load of gravity on the lumbar spine "slide" and sacrum. Develop pathological processes close to the internal organs. The patient is recommended to carry out stretching, consistent with the pain. If the appropriate procedure, the pain should reduce, not increase.
The statistics of complaints to the doctor degenerative disc disease is small — in vain 20% of potential patients. Usually when it becomes unbearable. However, osteochondrosis is a lot more dangerous than it seems at first glance. Timely access to a doctor, in the early stages of the development of degenerative disc disease will allow you to significantly reduce the number and time of treatment during the rehabilitation.