Osteochondrosis is often called a disease caused by a person's transition to a direct path, a civilized world disease. In fact, the burden on the spine in modern people is almost never distributed evenly, and osteochondrosis is characterized by damage to the intervertebral disc. Every year the disease is suffering from people around the world. At any age, one can begin to experience pain, seizures and other manifestations of osteochondrosis, which, among other things, also causes several other diseases. The development of the disease is influenced not only by hereditary factors or age -related changes, as it was, but also the worse environmental conditions, food products that brought more harm than the benefits and living conditions of others in the 21st century. The most common types of osteochondrosis are lumbar, second place occupied by cervical spinal osteochondrosis (cervical osteochondrosis).
The main cause of cervical area osteochondrosis
The modern world, despite progressive treatment methods, the development of science and medical technology, is still facing a variety of spinal related diseases. Some of the most important causes of osteochondrosis, the following can be called:
1. Causes of objective properties, with the presence of special attention should be paid to your own spine
- Predit of descent: osteochondrosis can be inherited. If your relatives have such a disease, you should take all possible precautions to prevent its development
- Age -related changes: with age, the body itself is low and less producing useful substances, which should also keep the spine in a healthy state. In order for osteochondrosis to grow more slowly, you should keep the condition on youth
2. Reasons related to one's way of life. They can easily eliminate if they are unstable, and it is best to immediately follow the principles of a healthy lifestyle
- Nutrition: What a person eats directly affects his or her health. Significant and rapid improvement brings the rejection of salt, sugar, flour and fatty dishes, from product use, including preservatives and dyes, from chocolate and alcohol. And, on the contrary, you should include in the diet of products that help in the construction of bone and cartilage (for example, sour milk products)
- Excessive Weight: The natural consequence of food deficiency is a weight gain, leading to increased load on the vertebrae
- Hypothermia: any type of hypothermia, draft should be avoided. If this happens, it happens quickly for treatment, bring it to the end
- The inevitable spinal injury will eventually affect his condition
- Hypodynamia: Small mobility negatively affects the function of all parts of the spine
- Drunkenness also affects the intervertebral disc, preventing the absorption of useful micro and macro elements. Smoking and alcohol is the main reason for body drunkenness
- Stress: apparently sleep deficiency, depression, negative emotional state is not related to the discomfort tested with cervical spinal osteochondrosis. However, this is not so
Symptoms of cervical spinal osteochondrosis
Treatment of cervical spinal osteochondrosis must be started as early as possible. Like the disease in advanced form, it is treated harder, and as a result it affects the whole body. Sometimes the symptoms of osteochondrosis are associated with other diseases. If there is a deviation from the norm, you should consult your doctor immediately and review your lifestyle. Symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis include:
- Pain, especially in the occipital region, between the shoulder blades, in the neck
- Feeling on the shoulder
- Finger numbness (especially during sleep)
- If, due to the development of cervical spinal osteochondrosis, cerebral circulation is interrupted, someone who is often dizzy, "flies" is cut before his eyes
- Pectoris angina can turn fake - with cervical hotel osteochondrosis, fake angina pectoris often occurs
- Headache
- In some cases, with cervical area osteochondrosis, there is even a deterioration in the vision
- Noise, congestion, ringing in the ear. In some cases, a hearing loss may be
- Due to limited headache
- Lack of oxygen, which can be expressed in shortness of breath, snoring, and increased fatigue
- Nausea, and sometimes vomiting
- Fluctuating in blood pressure
In the absence of proper treatment, symptoms can take more acute forms: for example, upper paralysis can occur, hernia often appears in the cervical region, sleep disturbed due to pain, memory worsening.
Method of treatment and prevention of cervical spinal osteochondrosis
Diet. An important factor that leads to the successful treatment of osteochondrosis in the cervical region is dietary compliance, which does not mean to leave most products-with osteochondrosis, on the contrary, mono-diet, small nutrition is contraindicated. To lose weight, you must adhere to the fractions 4-5 times a day.
What products are important for the recovery of cartilage:
- Meat (low -fat, not fried)
- Fish and seafood
- Dairy products, including cheese, cottage cheese, kefir
- olive oil
- Vegetables and fruits, good fresh, not canned or subject to other processing. Broccoli, Vegetable -Sayuran, Date is very rich in osteochondrosis by calcium
- Band
- Beans and seeds
- egg
- Magnesium can "supply" bananas, cucumbers, oats, dried apricots, legumes
The product from which, with neck osteochondrosis, you need to refuse:
- Bakery and sweet
- Fat food, acute, salty
- canned food
- carbonated and alcoholic beverages
- Fast food products
- Lard and sausage
- A strong tea and coffee
With osteochondrosis, you should drink 2. 5 - 3 liters of clean water, remaining drinks, soups are not considered.
Physiotherapy procedure. This type of treatment has long been established as an excellent method for reducing pain and edema, improving blood circulation, relaxation, and removal of toxins. Among the physiotherapy procedures in modern medical practice, various opportunities: 
- Electrophoresis and galvanization
- Ultra -Frrequency procedure (UHF)
- Magnetotherapy
- Ultraviolet
- Paraffin baths and mud
- Collar zone massage
Medicine. With severe pain, medications that can reduce it are taken to relieve inflammation. To add micro and macro deficiency in the body, it is recommended to take vitamins and foods that can restore the necessary balance, which today is difficult to achieve only using food products. Good impact in the cervical region has ointment designed to reduce inflammation and pain
Physical Education Medicine. This movement gives the opportunity to take a different position. Because modern people are inactive and more often spend time in sitting or lying down, gymnastics to strengthen the spine are simply inaccessible. Exercises should not cause pain, discomfort and, more, more, injure. With osteochondrosis of the cervical area, physiotherapy training is intended to strengthen the neck muscles:
- Lie on the stomach, slowly raise your head (straight back), hold this position for 1-2 minutes, lowering it
- In the same position, turn your head to the left right
- Exercises, which are easy to do on weekdays, sit at the table: with your palms, relax on your forehead, forever against ("back"), then cross your arms behind your head and even rest your head in your palm, against.
- These exercises also do not require special conditions to meet: turn left and right, tilt your head in both directions to the shoulders, head tilts backwards and so on and rotate heads. It is better to do this exercise sitting, slowly, during dizziness, disturbing
- Since the cervical region is directly related to other parts of the spine, it is important to strengthen the back: for this you need to lie behind you, tighten your feet to your chest and roll (you should be done on a hard surface); Lying on your back, place your feet on a chair and pull your head to your knees; kneeling, holding his hand behind him, trying to kneel with his forehead
Exercises are recommended to do regularly, at least a few minutes a day, otherwise the effect will be minimal. You should also arrange a place for sleeping properly: appropriate mattresses (not rejected, with a flat, compact) surface and, which is very important with the collar zone osteochondrosis, a special shape of a specific shape for the head and neck position during sleep, should also be located on the bed.
People's recovery. Although osteochondrosis is a modern person, people have suffered from the disease for a long time, and therefore traditional medicine has many prescriptions to relieve pain, edema, improve general conditions and prevention:
- For outdoor use at home, you can make ointment and rub: red elderberry berries are poured 2/3 with alcohol and worth a week - then this scrubbing can be used; Hop cones are rubbed with butter and rubbed to the collar area
- For indoor use, decoctions are made, infusions mixed, herbal tea mixed: herbal tea is recommended for mixed with St. John, bell, hop - 2 tablespoons grass per 0. 5 liters of water are usually boiled for 5 minutes, so the mixture is backed for half an hour, filtered and taken in some guesses.
Taking steps to treat cervical spinal osteochondrosis, keep in mind that prevention of the disease is always more effective. In addition, any disease requires an integrated approach to treatment, as its effects should be provided throughout the organism as a whole.