Cervical osteochondrosis is a common pathology associated with the destruction of cartilage in the cervical spine joints.
Signs of cervical osteochondrosis are most often manifested in the interval between 20 and 40 years, this disease explains headaches in one third of cases.If you do not prescribe treatment on time, the disease will enter the advanced stage and probably will cause a hernia of the intervertebral disc or intervertebral protrusion.
A significant problem is that, due to the contradictory symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, a diagnosis can be difficult.Some characteristics of the course of the disease, which will be discussed further, can lead to the fact that the patient will go to the doctor in a timely manner, which will complicate the diagnosis of neck osteochondrosis and its additional treatment.
Most of the time, acute cervical osteochondrosis develops when a person carries a sedentary lifestyle and, as today, with the development of technology and science, there is a gradual transition from humanity from work mainly to the intellectual (respectively, to a sitting lifestyle), it is not surprising that this disease is very -intellectual.
In addition, signs of neck osteochondrosis, as well as their differences in the symptoms that accompany this disease with damage to other departments in the spine, will be examined in detail.
The causes of this disease are the deposit of salts in the cervical spine during constant work on the computer or driving a car, metabolic disorders, inactive lifestyle and malnutrition.
The disease can also be caused by systemic lupus erythematosus, neck lesions, hypothermia, heredity, hormonal disorders and rheumatism.
Symptoms of neck osteochondrosis and different groups of signals
Before moving to a more detailed consideration of symptoms, you should be familiar with a certain set of general signs of the disease.
Therefore, the general symptoms of cervical osteochondros are expressed:
- Pain in cervical departments and shoulders, hands and backs of the head, and painful manifestations are improved even with weak loads during sneezing or cough attacks;
- pain and crispness in the neck trying to turn his head;
- With dormancy and tingling in the limbs, burn the rear area, near the paps and among them;
- headaches that begin in the occipital region and spread to the crown and temples;
- dizziness and fainting with clear curves of the head;
- Weakness and fatigue, fast fatigue.
The remaining symptoms are expressed by pulling heart pain and noise in their ears, the patient does not hear well, their vision may decrease.
All of these processes can occur in parallel with other clinical signs.
Considering traditional neck pain sometimes adjacent to symptoms that are not atypical for osteochondrosis that are not associated with this disease.For example, few compare with osteochondros of neck weakness in the legs, elite pain or worse vision - and the article aims to count the symptoms of this disease as affordable as possible.
To understand how neck osteochondrosis manifests itself, it is necessary to divide the syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis into three groups, which will depend on involvement in central nervous system pathology.
The first group usually includes neurological characteristics considered as complications of the disease that arise due to the influence of pathological processes in the peripheral region of the nervous system.
The second group is considered symptoms, which can manifest only under the influence of the disease in the spinal cord.
The third group includes symptoms associated with processes that occur during cervical osteochondrosis in the brain.
Briefly, we can say the following: The first group includes signs responsible for sick manifestations, the second - for motor disorders, the third - for pathological purposes in the vessels.
Symptoms may manifest separately or in the combination of these groups, but usually one of them is dominant.
Signs that belong to the first group of the disease
What symptoms are pronounced with cervical osteochondrosis in this case?As has been said, this group includes pain, which can manifest due to the defeat of the pathological process of the peripheral section of the nervous system.
Painful manifestations in the neck, cervical and sides are also symptoms of this group, which is also characterized by chest pain, muscles and joints.
Neck pain is the first symptom of neck osteochondrosis and manifests itself in almost all patients.Most of the time it starts in the morning and intensifies when a person turns, causes laughter, coughing, sneezing, an unsuccessful turn of his neck.Pain is usually piercing, stupid, sometimes shooting, located inside the neck, but occasionally spreads to the shoulder region.
Such pains can occur periodically or constantly last, are different in duration and strength.
Sometimes painful manifestations are clear, but they are expressed differently and can be felt by the "current blow", and at the same time someone feels a piercing pain, all individually.
The neck muscles can be tense and then it is difficult to breathe.Also, during the acute period of neck osteochondrosis, the patient takes certain poses - holds his head, leaning forward and side, and is very difficult for him to rotate with her during the bastards.
Frequent symptoms are noise phenomena, they can occur when trying to turn the head, expressed by crispy and crackling.This is what indicates the neglect of the disease.
Sometimes people believe the disease is triggered by the wrong position in a dream, hypothermia, clear twists of the head and the load in the neck.
Factors and signs that accompany the symptoms of the first group
The factors listed above may actually cause pain, but more often they only aggravate the existing symptoms of the disease, not the main causes of cervical spine osteochondrosis.
Cervical pain and photos are not all symptoms of this group, except for them, different types of radiculitis in the neck and shoulder region, which resulted in the painful manifestations of the upper cervical region and the back of the head.
The pain intensifies during head rotation, sometimes even passes to the belt and the shoulder arms, causes tension in the muscles associated with the nerve roots.Most of the time, they suffer in the sixth and seventh departments due to squeezing the vertebrae.The Pathology of the Sixth Department leads to pain in the forearm and thumb, the seventh - for painful demonstrations in the middle finger.Rare for this disease, damage to the eighth department is full of the spread of pain in the little finger.
With injuries to the upper vertebrae and cervical discs, the occipital nerve is included in painful processes, which are full of new constant pain.Sometimes these pains become stronger and then the sensitivity of the neck is lost, you may even find a pain point that looks like a small seal.
As changes begin in the neck due to the harmed in the blood supply, cervical vegetative formations may suffer.The symptom as ardent pain is united, which becomes stronger during physical and emotional stress or when altering weather conditions.In addition, the color of the hands and hands changes, the swelling appears, the skin is pale and tuns, becoming cold.In addition, the disappearance of touch sensitivity, or vice versa, its strengthening.Tachycardia joins, pain in the heart, students change.
Additional signs related to the first group
Neck osteochondrosis also manifests itself by discomfort in the hands (usually this happens at night).This is called night dying, usually the diagnosis is made after forty years for those whose lifestyle is associated with various physical activities.
The additional signs of the first group are tingling and numbness of bones, pain and discomfort in the hands, and as attacks occur more often at night, a dream is disturbed because of them.
The symptoms of this group reach their peak when strong degenerative changes occur in the neck and vertebrae, which indicates the pathologies of the autonomic nervous system.This is due to the fact that vegetative nodes located very close to the spine are not sufficiently supplied with blood.
Sometimes this disease contributes to the occurrence of crooked, since frequent satellites of osteochondrosis are muscle cramps that occur during head inclinations and neck rotation.At the same time, a person cannot turn his head normally due to increased pain in the back of the head or shoulder stumps.
Pain in the fingers and skin pallor has come together if the vessels are squeezed, the blood supply is disturbed or the pulse in the radial artery is weakened.
Another complication is the shoulder -filled periatitite, which occurs due to a violation of the shoulder bond and spatular sections with the central nervous system.As a result - dystrophic changes, over time only increasing.
The main problem is that these pathologies occur secretly for a long time, and the patient cannot notice them.
The main symptoms are in unjust joint pain that manifests itself, as already observed at night.Painful places can be felt, and the kidnapping of the hands to the side causes acute pain.
As the patient will try not to disturb the limb so as not to feel pain once again, due to joint inactivity, the effect of a "frozen shoulder" can be formed, and if the treatment does not start in time, a person will not be able to raise his hand above the horizontal level.
What are the signs of the second group of this disease?
The symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis that occur due to spinal cord pathologies are symptoms of the second group.Symptoms may lead to compression produced by a spray nucleus that falls from the disc due to its softening or due to the spinal cord injury.
Often, weakness in the limbs unites such symptoms, a reduced muscle tone is felt in the hands, but, on the contrary, is increased in the legs, but weight loss is not observed.Sometimes the painless grunts of the muscles develop (usually occurs after forty years, less frequently after fifty -Cinco and almost never in youth).Similar complications are found in people who have an anamnesis of atherosclerosis or arrhythmias.
The spinal cord (with problems with the disc between the fifth and sixth vertebra) can support the change called myelopathy.Normally, this pathology occurs due to lesions in the spine or overtension, which touched the shoulder muscles, but sometimes stress or alcohol poisoning may be the root cause.
There are also clinical manifestations that proceed without increasing temperature or loss of sensitivity, which is why a person fails to feel an irritating effect that can in any way on the skin of the neck, arms and chest.In addition, broken or painful pain may occur, the patient's hands are using.
Cervical vertebra osteochondrosis is also characterized by the "semiconductor disorder syndrome" that occurs when spinal cord parts are little supplied with blood.As a result, when walking or standing, the legs are very tired.Sometimes the brushes are numb, occasionally - feet, discomfort may appear in them.Coordination is also possible, especially if the patient closes his eyes.
Despite the certain frequency of the manifestation of these signs, they will not deprive the patient with the opportunity to work, and a person may lead a normal lifestyle.
What signs belong to the third group of this disease?
The symptoms and signs of the third group are related to brain manifestations of the disease that appear due to insufficient blood flow in the system, which is responsible for ensuring that blood in sufficient quantities and time falls into spinal cord compartments.This system is formed from the main ships such as vertebral arteries.
Which syndromes characterize this group of symptoms?
Hypothalamic syndrome in cervical spine osteochondrosis is most often found, its symptoms are mood instability, irritability and high fatigue, anxiety, resentment, sleep disorder (the patient does not fall asleep well, rises with the feeling that he did not sleep).In addition, the opportunity to focus is lost, problems with memory begins and discomfort is felt in everything.Occasionally, longing, anger, fear without cause, anxiety can join.The skin is pale, the limbs are cold, the patient increases perspiration, the pressure usually increases, but the appetite and sexual desire are reduced.
Drop syndrome is characterized by fainting attacks caused (sometimes with loss of consciousness, sometimes without it), the reason for this is vascular cramps.Awareness returns almost immediately if the patient is lying down and lowering his head.After weakness, a feeling of collapse may occur, headaches come together.
Signs of vestibular barrel syndrome at the beginning of the disease are dizziness, which appear due to insufficient blood supply, nausea and vomiting attacks, impressive when walking.
The symptoms of coclear barrel syndrome and noise in the ears, usually on one side, may decrease hearing, hollow hollow.Generally, this syndrome follows from the previous one, but its independent manifestation is also possible.It is difficult to understand the diagnosis of cervical osteochondrosis with these signs.
With a pharyngeon minute syndrome, there is a feeling that there is a foreign object in the throat, other signs of drying and itching in the throat, the voice becomes deaf, the larynx of the wizards and the pain occurs in it and in the throat.The patient gets tired during a conversation, he needs vacation, and it is difficult to swallow thick foods, esophagus spasms are observed.A short term rest can save these manifestations.
The symptoms of visual disorders are expressed by disorders - fog before the eyes, a decrease in vision.
What is the danger of the disease?
If you do not diagnose proper treatment over time, when signs of cervical spine osteochondrosis appear, radiculopathy can begin, where nerve roots are affected and the patient loses mobility, but the greatest danger is to compress the spinal cord, which can lead to death.
With neck osteochondrosis, the most dangerous form of this disease, brain circulation can be disturbed, because migraine, hypertension, vegetable dystonia, cardiovascular and respiratory systems pathology, vision, hearing and coordination problems will begin.The forms performed of the disease lead to vertebral artery syndrome, which provides blood from the oblong and cerebellum, and if the artery is squeezed, brain or spinal cord ischemia, such manifestations may cause a spinal blow.
Do not leave such a dangerous disease as cervical osteochondrosis without attention, as the consequences can affect the ability to work and the lifestyle in general, and if the first symptoms appear, you will need to immediately seek the help of an expert.How to treat cervical spine osteochondrosis, the assistant doctor decides after a complete exam.