Low back pain and not just the back pain. The health of the spine and spinal cord, associated with the best nerve fibres with all the internal organs, affecting the heart, kidneys, lungs and gastrointestinal tract, and even in his General state. Maybe we will be surprised, but even depression can be caused due to the misfortunes in the life of a person, but only because the destruction of the cervical vertebrae little piegaro those related to the brain. How to treat folk remedies, this disease.
Osteochondrosis and an extremely serious and unpleasant disease. Often, a accompanied by pain in the region, lumbosacral and, in one of the lower extremities. Data According to the latest medical, the main cause of back pain and degenerative (destructive) in the process intervertebral discs. En of osteochondrosis intervertebral disc and a special cartilage structures that provide our spinal column the flexibility and the mobility to be defective. When osteochondrosis progresses, irreversible changes occur in the vertebrae.
The causes of osteochondrosis
Cause of osteoarthritis can be established, I, as often is the case, and impossible to name, the main. Negative Factors are superimposed on one another, and the result of the illness.
The With age, the cartilages lose their elasticity and be less durable. Because of this, the discs are badly intervertebrals original work of art restored from the stress. Uncompensated burden on one side of the body slowly, but surely undermines the health of the spine: sitting in a posture asymmetric, transfer of weight on the one hand, to maintain a certain posture for a long time (for example, read's lying while he is on one side), using the wrong pillows and mattresses for sleeping (in the cap'right angle with the body the body and uneven). This can cause the bulging intervertebral disc of the self-compression out of the corresponding vertebra of the nerve. I already began the disease associated with this division of authority.
Malnutrition is closely linked to another of the causes of low back pain — obesity. The extra weight and not only the additional load on the spine, not elasticity muscle and a decrease in the mobility. Rich in carbohydrates and fats food brings rapid saturation, but these "empty" calories do not give the body anything useful - not vitamins, minerals, or energy head. I've heard calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese and other trace elements the cartilage and bones become more porous and faster collapse under the impact loads. So, unfortunately, will have to give up sweets, fried, baked goods and semi-finished products, I went in the diet in fish is consistent, fresh fruits and vegetables. Moderate should be the consumption of cereals, sunflower and olive oil, cheese and cottage cheese. Meat, butter, pastries and fatty dairy foods, salt, and the coffee must be very limited, and the second, ideally, eliminate.
The two reasons above, a third person joins — a violation of metabolism. The metabolism and the body's ability to take the process and absorb food, to obtain energy and materials for the construction of the cell dl·lules. In general are these processes automatically regulated, since the process of maintaining the internal balance of the composition of the mineral. Input foods, the body has exactly the amount of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and water it needs for its normal functioning. If, however, there are some un deficit d substances, protein disorders, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, water and metabolism. Consequences of system disorders metabolic and skeletal can become osteoporosis and deposition of salts companys common of osteoarthritis.
Flat feet, uncomfortable with shoes, heel shoes are also causes of degenerative disc disease. Abnormalities in the structure of the arch of the foot causes the spine to excessively compensate for the load which arise in the process of walking, the body weight is distributed incorrectly.
Other causes: trauma of the spine and abnormalities in the structure of the vertebrae and the cartilage, the sedentary lifestyle, the impact of which we will discuss later on, physical work and heavy heavy constant lifting, not giving the spine the ability to recover termination abrupt of sports and the weakening of the muscular system and the stress, which is to be pinched and the blood vessels piegaro are net s that the of the brain.
Symptoms
When you may have a suspicion that your spine there is a right and the time to check out the un specialist for diagnosis?
Onset of the disease can be unnoticed: sometimes, patients feel numbness physical discomfort or only in a specific location of the spinal column, in function of the location of degenerative changes.
Depending on what the spine has become its weak succumbed I link to the ravages of osteoarthritis, you may experience the following symptoms.
When the cartilage between the vertebrae become thinner and shrivel, I holes and narrow channels, respectively, the artery, a pinched spinal, the brain produces the symptoms of lack of oxygen (headache, dizziness, anxiety). At this time, you can develop chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, the person is constantly experiencing a lack of vitality.
Then, in the unconscious, physical discomfort, you can join headaches and dizziness, the loss of vision and hearing, when it comes to cervical degenerative disc disease.
The lack of sensitivity and pain on moving the arms, waist pains well arise from the thoracic osteochondrosis.
Lumbar osteochondrosis is characterized by pain when walking, bending, recurrent pain in the pelvis, I joint that the pain radiates to the groin and legs.
All of these signs speak of the violation of the physiological health of the spine, which can not cope with its workload.
What does the term "osteochondrosis"? In the translation from Greek osteon means "bone" chondros — "cartilage" the ending-os in a non — inflammatory disease, but in General the un process that the degenerative and aging process of cartilage and bone tissue.
What violations and in which parts of the spine are found in depend on the symptoms of osteoarthritis. That affect all areas of the spine, degenerative disc can affect the disease Cervical, thoracic, lumbosacral departments and be complicated by sciatica, spondylosis, sciatica, "lumbago", intervertebral disc hernia.
Cervical osteochondrosis
Localization of degenerative disc disease in the neck (cervical osteochondrosis) occurs quite often. The cervical spine in suffer from most people that have repetitive work, designers, programmers, secretaries, dentists, watchmakers, etc. As a general rule, the development of cervical degenerative disc disease contribute to the driving and prolonged computer work. The main signs and symptoms of cervical degenerative disc disease are: headache, dizziness, pain in the arms and chest, back pain, numbness of the tongue.
Cervical osteochondrosis often With patients should I dizzy and dark eyes, the blood pressure increases. Through the transverse processes of the cervical vertebrae, in addition to the canal of the spinal cord and the channel for the so-called arteria vertebral. Is directed to the cavity of skull and nourishes the cerebellum, vestibular as the apparatus and the centers lie on the neck and at the base of the brain. The displacement of the vertebrae leads to a reflex spasm of the artery vertebral, and in severe cases, and squeezing it. Therefore, the supply concerned blood centers of balance for the autonomous communities and various centres of control of vital processes. This process at that, because much of the diagnosis "vegeto-vascular dystonia".
In osteochondrosis of the cervical spine may have spotted the symptoms (cervical radiculitis): pain radiates to the arms, and sometimes individual fingers, which are numb, constantly be cold. The reason for this is the violation of the passage of the impulse along the fiber nervous. The numbness of a finger, you can judge the displacement of the vertebra.
Thoracic osteochondrosis
Thoracic spine osteochondrosis very rarely affected. One of the main reasons for the development of thoracic degenerative disc disease and a curvature of the spine (scoliosis). As a general rule, all the requirements for the development of future thoracic osteochondrosis formed still at the school. The thoracic spine, a less mobile, so that the symptoms of language of signs and thoracic osteochondrosis are very different from the symptoms of cervical or lumbar degenerative disk disease. In most cases, the main difference between thoracic osteochondrosis and not a sharp pain, and the presence of only un-dull, aching pain in the back.
The signs and symptoms of thoracic degenerative disc disease are: chest pain, feeling of numbness, feeling of pins and needles in the chest pain in the region of the heart, the liver, the stomach. Very often thoracic osteochondrosis masquerades as other diseases (for example, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, case of disease of ulcer, gastritis).
According to this, because their symptoms may be confused with, for example, myocardial infarction or pneumonia. The pain associat with degenerative disc disease of the spine thoracic, a long, similar to the neuralgia intercostal. Sometimes the pain can give the shoulder beneath the blade, which leads to the suspicion of the un heart attack. The difference between coronary artery disease and neuralgia intercostal and osteochondrosis that in the patient has normal (or almost normal) electrocardiogram, there is now symptoms such as sudden stick.lidesa, cyanosis, semlitsch skin, cold sweat, etc.
Thoracic degenerative disc disease, in addition that it's associated with a variety of painful symptoms (pain, reactions neurological), threat that causes the development of serious diseases of neighboring thoracic spine internal organs.
Lumbosacral osteochondrosis
Osteochondrosis of the lumbar spine lumbar osteochondrosis and the most Marta. And This is because at the bottom of the back (lumbar vertebrae), in general the main burden falls. Most often degenerative lumbar disk disease may be complicated by herniated discs of the lumbar spine.
The signs and symptoms of degenerative lumbar disc are of the disease: low back pain (pain in the lower back are bothering a person for many years, and are characterized cyclical by, was aggravated in the autumn-'winter period), limitation of mobility, pain in the legs. Very often, when lumbar osteochondrosis observed a strong (shooting) pain or pain in the legs, some exciting leg part (for example, the back or side of the thigh). In addition, the pain may increase or decrease the sensitivity of the skin of the legs (to the thigh or leg) to touch or pain, these symptoms osteoarthritis explained pinched cord and roots.
The most common cause of intervertebral disc degenerative disease in the spine lumbosacral traumatic (compression fracture or chronic trauma).
In the lumbar nerve roots that form the so-called the sciatic nerve, nervus ischiadicus, hence the name of complications — sciatica. If the injury pain of nerve spreading along the nerve trunk and in the region of the buttocks, under the knee and sometimes into the calf or the heel. In advanced cases, may not be important malnutrition of the nerve trunk, original works of art of the leg was numb. The symptoms of loss of sensitivity to very stable, and sometimes numbness persists for a long time.
When sciatica, the man begins to limp, avoiding to carry the weight on the body of the painful side, bending in a healthy way, as much as possible to push the vertebrae in the affected part, and thus to reduce the compression of the spine. Over time as a result of treatment of the pain go away or become are tolerated. If the vertebrae is not reduced, there remains a curvature of the spine. In this case, the load on the intervertebral disc that is already damaged, uneven, leading to its coming out more and the destruction.
The most unpleasant complication of lumbar-sacral osteochondrosis, instability of the vertebra. Author already The towards vertebra to fix the load under the action of gravity low-back "slide" with the sacrum. Pathological processes Develop in the next internal organs. The patient is recommended to carry out s are clean, in accordance with the pain. If the proper procedure, the pain should decrease, not increase.
The statistics of complaints to the doctor about the degenerative disc disease and small-only up to 20% of potential patients. Usually come when it becomes unbearable. However, osteochondrosis, and much more dangerous than it seems at first sight. Timely access to a doctor, in the early stages of development of degenerative disc disease will allow you to reduce considerably the time of treatment and rehabilitation period.