The osteochondrosis of the cervical region is a degenerative-textrophic disease that affects the cartilage tissue of the intervertebral discs, provoking the pathological change in the beads.The need for hospitalization occurs only with irritation with a sharp deterioration in well -being, usually provoked by laying vertebral arteries with an enthusiastic beads.
In most cases, the treatment of osteochondrosis is performed at home.The patient is shown the course of chondroprotectors, massage and physiotherapeutic procedures, compliance with a diet.But the main method of therapy for the disease is daily physical medical education or gymnastics.Patients are also recommended for swimming, yoga, long walks in the fresh air.
Treatment
In cervical osteochondrosis therapy, medicines of different clinical and farmacological groups are used.To eliminate acute neck and nap pain, non -steroidal anti -inflammatory, muscle relaxants, analgesics in tablets or injection solutions are used.And the use of ointments and plaster helps to get rid of unpleasant sensations of poor or medium severity, including with a heat action.
With osteochondrosis of 1 or 2 degrees of severity, chondroprotectors are included in therapeutic schemes.These are stimulants of regeneration of cartilage tissue of the intervertebral discs and damaged ligaments, tendons, muscles.With the help of a long (from 3 months to several years), the course of the chondroprotectors manages to partially restore the hyaline cartilage, normalize the function of the cervical spine.
The concentration of active ingredients (glucosamine, chondroitin) of medicines in the area of damaged tissue gradually increases.Soon, their analgesic, decongestant and anti -inflammatory action begins to appear.The chondroprotectors are not used in the treatment of osteochondrosis of the 3rd degree, as destructive processes affected almost all connective structures.
| The clinical and farmacological group of medicines used in the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis | Pharmacological action and therapeutic effect |
| Non -inflammatory drugs non -inflammatory | Relief of inflammatory processes, reducing the severity of pain and swelling, increasing the volume of movements |
| B vitamin b | Normalization of skeletal muscle intrigue, restoring optimal excitement transmission and metabolism of intermediaries, impaired nerves regeneration |
| Funds that improve blood supply | Improving the reological properties of blood and eating of damaged nerve roots, stimulating blood circulation in the brain, eliminating headaches and dizziness |
| Musorexant | Relaxation of skeletal muscles, releasing nerve roots and blood vessels |
Physical education
The use of pharmacological preparations, heating compresses, performing massage procedures will not help eliminate the symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, stop its progress.Only regular, daily physiotherapy exercises slow down, and then completely stop the destruction of cartilage tissue.The exercise complex has been compiled by a physician of exercise therapy, taking into account the stage of the patient's pathology and sports preparation.The first exercises are also controlled under his control, and then the patient is engaged at home.
Neck exercises for osteochondrosis.
In the process of performing exercises, there should be no unpleasant sensation, including a natural vertebrogen pallor, increasing blood pressure.The movements should be smooth, with a small amplitude.Only in this way can blood circulation in the cervical spine improve and at the same time avoid loads on damaged intervertebral discs.Typically, Exercise therapy doctors include the following exercises in the treatment complex:
- Lie on the stomach, rest your hands on the floor.Holding your back evenly, raise your head and upper half of the body, extend to this position for a minute, and then sink smoothly.First, perform 3-4 times, as muscle corset is strengthened-10-15 times;
- Lie on your stomach, stretch your hands along the body.Turn your head first, then in the other direction, touching the floor of the ear.Perform exercises 10 times to the right and left;
- Sit in a chair or excrement, take a deep breath and bend it forward, trying to touch your chest beard.Take out, bend back, throwing your head a little.Repeat 15-20 times;
- Sit down, put your hands on your forehead.Try to bend your head forward, while resisting your palms simultaneously for a minute.Repeat the exercise 5-7 times;
- Sit down, put your palms on your knees.Without problems, rotate your head first first to the right, then to the left.Perform 10 rotations in one, then in the other direction.
Strictly forbidden to train during irritation of the cervical osteochondrosis due to the high probability of the tip of the nerve or squeezing of the vertebral artery.Training should also be interrupted with SARS, flu and other infections that provoke temperature rise.
Massage
In the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis, acupressure is used.Healing procedures contribute to improving blood circulation and strengthening muscle lanes, stabilizing vertebrae and intervertebral discs.At home, you can massage yourself 1-3 times a day in one of the following methods:
- Take your hands behind your back with a soft caught towel and produce intense rubbing of the back of the neck.In the last phase of the massage, make some energetic patience with your palms;
- The procedure should begin with soft rubbing of the skin, and then cooking.Make some ribbons, movements, shredding the movements.Finger pads for 10 minutes massage the skin around the elongated vertebrae.Complete massage with stroke and rubbing.
In a pharmacy store or medical equipment, you can buy special massages - wood, equipped with ledge or electric ones.Such equipment and equipment facilitate home massage.Some models have a heating function, there are some ways of speed.
Applicants have proven themselves in the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis.They are small carpets or rollers with lots of sharp rivets.In contact with the skin, the receptors located in the subcutaneous tissue are irritated.Blood begins to add damaged discs and beads, normalizing trophic tissue.
Folk remedies
After the main treatment of osteochondrosis, the achievement of stable remission, vertebologists allow the use of popular remedies, but only with proven clinical efficiency.The therapeutic effect of most compresses or friction consists of increasing body temperature in the neck due to irritation of sensitive nerve endings.It is impractical to use means that they are positioned as stimulants of regeneration.Microelements, vitamins, other active biological substances are unable to penetrate the surface of the skin into vertebral structures and restore them.
Infusions or tinctures for internal use have different therapeutic properties.Some of them may slow down or weaken the effect of pharmacological drugs.Therefore, the feasibility of using folk remedies should be discussed with a vertebologist or neurologist.
Before applying the mixture for compresses or applications, you need to rub its small amount at the elbow turn.If an hour later on the skin does not appear redness, redness, a slight rash, then you can proceed to medical procedures.
Compresses and applications
Physiotherapeutic procedures with ozokerite and paraffin can be performed at home.These natural hydrocarbons have approximately the same melting point, so they often combine with one another.Paraffins and ozokerites are sold at the pharmacy and are relatively inexpensive.They are mixed in a 1: 1 proportion and melt in a water bath, and then cooled to a temperature of 40-45 ° C. A layer of warm mix is applied to the back of the neck with a wide brush or wooden spatula and solidification is waiting.Another layer is distributed on top.In total, the procedure is repeated 4-5 times.Application time is 1-2 hours.
The most popular procedure for the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis in folk medicine is a compress.Especilly, especially popular to apply for damaged discs and fresh, greasy with honey, cabbage leaves, horseradish, tomb, plants.But the best therapeutic effect has a compress with a solution of sea salt.To prepare it in 200 ml of warm water, a tablespoon of large blood salt is diluted.Leave a large sterile napkin in the solution and apply to the neck until completely dried.
grinding
For the preparation of a friction, vodka or ethyl alcohol diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1 is used.It is best for people with sensitive skin to insist the raw materials of vegetables in olives, sunflowers or linseed oil.Most often, rubbing with different parts of the garden caskets - roots, flowers and arrows are used in therapy for cervical osteochondrosis.They are cut into small pieces, placed in a dark glass or ceramic container, chopped and poured with vodka or oil.They insist on a warm place where sunlight does not penetrate for 1-2 months, periodically shaking for better extraction of bioactive substances.Rub debris 2 times a day in the back of the neck.
Instead of horseradish, you can use nettle, grave, saberfish, plants.Popular healers recommend adding 3 drops of juniper, spruce, pine, one tablespoon a terpentine gum in 0.5 liters of finished tinctures.
Infusions
With cervical osteochondrosis, you should drink plenty of fluids - in the absence of contraindications up to 3 liters a day.This helps to remove toxins, toxins, tissue decay products, harmful mineral salts from vertebral structures.The use of about 2 cups of plant infusions a day will also eliminate slow inflammatory processes, muscle cramps, relieve pain and stiffness of movements.For their preparation, thyme, chamomile, sage, coltsfoot, nails, bear ears, corn stigmas are used.
How to create healing tea:
- Pour into a thermos in a teaspoon of dried herbal materials;
- Pour 2 liters of boiling water, insist 2-3 hours;
- Cold, strain, take 0.5 cups 3-4 times a day after meal.
A decoction of birch buds will help improve well -being, increase the volume of movements in the cervical region.2 tablespoons raw material pour with 2 cups of hot water and dropped over low heat for 15 minutes.Cold, filter, take 100 ml three times a day during meals.
On the Internet, there are often recommendations for using a large number of gelatin dishes - jelly, jelly, fishing floods, berry jelly.Allegedly involved in food, collagen ensures regeneration of destroyed cartilage.In fact, this chief chief is rapidly destroyed in the gastrointestinal tract and removed from the body.This method of therapy not only does not accelerate the treatment of osteochondrosis, but also contributes to its progress due to a rapid increase in body weight.