Cervical osteochondrosis is a common pathology related to cartilage destruction in cervical spondylosis.
Signs of cervical osteochondrosis are most commonly shown at 20 to 40-year intervals, and the disease explains headaches in one-third of cases.If you do not prescribe promptly for treatment, the disease will enter an advanced stage and will most likely cause a hernia of disc or herniation.
An important issue is that diagnosis can be difficult due to contradictory symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis.Some characteristics of the course of the disease will be discussed further and may cause patients to see a doctor in time, which can complicate the diagnosis of cervical osteochondrosis and its further treatment.
Most commonly, acute cervical bone cartilage develops when a person lives a sedentary lifestyle, and because of the current transition from major manual labor to intellectual (sitting lifestyle respectively) with the development of technology and science, it is not surprising that this disease is widespread.
In addition, signs of cervical osteochondria disease will be examined in detail, and its differences from symptoms associated with damage to other spinal departments.
The cause of this disease is that salt deposits in the cervical spine in constant work on a computer or driving a car, metabolic disease, inactive lifestyle and malnutrition.
The disease can also be caused by systemic lupus erythematosus, neck injury, hypothermia, genetic, hormonal diseases and rheumatism.
Symptoms of osteochondrosis and different signs of neck
Before you make more detailed symptom considerations, you should be familiar with the general signs of a range of illnesses.
Therefore, general symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis are expressed:
- Pain in the neck and shoulder sections, hands on the head and back, the manifestations of pain are enhanced even during sneezing or attacks of coughing.
- pain and tightness in the neck as you try to turn your head;
- Numbness and tingling of limbs, burning of the back area, shoulder blade bones and tingling between them;
- The headache started from the occipital area and spread to the crown and temple.
- Dizzy and drowsy, with sharp turns on the head;
- Weakness and fatigue, rapid fatigue.
The rest of the symptoms are expressed by pulling pain and noise in his ears, which the patient cannot hear and his vision may be reduced.
All these processes can occur in parallel with other clinical signs.
Considering that traditional pain in the neck is sometimes adjacent to symptoms that are not atypical with osteochondrosis, which is not associated with this disease.For example, there are few osteocartilages that are weak on the legs and neck, elite pain or worsening vision, which is intended to state the symptoms of the disease as easy to use as possible.
To understand how cervical osteochondria manifests, it is necessary to divide the syndrome of cervical osteochondria into three groups, which will depend on the pathology of the central nervous system.
The first group usually includes neurological features of disease complications caused by the effects of pathological processes on the surrounding areas of the nervous system.
The second group is considered a symptom and can only be manifested under the influence of the disease on the spinal cord.
The third group includes symptoms related to the process that occurs during the osteocartilage of the cervical vertebrae of the brain.
In short, we can say this: the first group includes signs responsible for pathological manifestations, the second group is dyskinesia, and the third group - pathological effects on blood vessels.
Symptoms can be manifested individually or in combinations of these groups, but usually one of them is dominant.
Signs of disease belonging to the first group
What are the symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis in this case?As mentioned earlier, this population includes pain, which can be manifested by failure of pathological processes in the peripheral parts of the nervous system.
The pain manifestations of the neck, the radiant stones and sides of the cervical area are also symptoms of the group, which is also characterized by pain in the chest, muscles and joints.
Neck pain is the first symptom of osteochondrosis in the neck and is manifested in almost all patients.The most common thing is that it starts in the morning, which increases when a person turns around, which can cause laughter, cough, sneeze, and unsuccessful neck.The pain is usually drilled, stupid, sometimes shot, partially locally within the neck, but occasionally spreads to the shoulder area.
This pain can occur regularly or continuously, with varying duration and strength.
Sometimes the pain is manifested clearly, but they are expressed in a different way, they can be felt through the "current blow" while someone will feel the shooting pain piercing, everything piercing alone.
The neck muscles may become tense and then it will be difficult to breathe.Additionally, during the acute period of neck osteochondrosis, the patient takes certain positions - holding his head, leaning forward and sideways, and it's hard for him to rotate with her during the asshole.
The common symptoms are noise phenomena that can occur when trying to turn and crack the head expressing it.This is what shows the neglect of the disease.
Sometimes it is thought that the disease is caused by the wrong position in your dream, hypothermia, sharp turns on your head and load on your neck.
The first group of symptoms and symptoms
The factors listed above do cause pain, but more than that they only exacerbate the existing symptoms of the disease, rather than the main cause of cervical osteochondrosis.
Cervical pain and shooting are not all symptoms of this group, except for them, different types of radiation inflammation in the neck and shoulder areas, which lead to painful manifestations in the upper neck area and the back of the head.
The pain worsens during the rotation of the head and sometimes even passes to the shoulder straps and arms, which 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 sixth department pathology causes pain in the forearm and thumb, the seventh - painful manifestations of the middle finger.The disease is rare, and the damage in the eighth department is filled with pain spreading to the little finger.
Accompanied by lesions in the upper vertebrae and cervical disc, the occipital nerve includes the process of pain, which is filled with constant new pain.Sometimes these pains become stronger and then lose the sensitivity of the nape of the neck, you can even find a pain point that looks like a small seal.
As changes in the neck begin, the neck nutritional formation may be affected due to impaired blood supply.Symptoms of burning pain are linked together and become stronger under physical and emotional stress or when changing weather conditions.In addition, the color of the hands and hands changes, swelling occurs, and the skin becomes white, thinner and colder.Similarly, sensitivity to touch disappears and vice versa.Tachocardia is added, heart pain, and students change.
Other logos related to the first group
The osteocartilage of the neck also manifests as discomfort in the hands (usually occurring at night).This is called night molds and is usually diagnosed after 40 years of lifestyle related to various physical exercises.
Other signs of the first group are bone tingling and numbness, pain and discomfort in the hands, and dreams are disturbed by them as attacks occur more frequently at night.
Symptoms peaked in the group when there was a strong degenerative change in the neck and vertebrae, suggesting the pathology of the autonomic nervous system.This is due to the fact that there is not enough blood in the nutritional nodes close to the spine.
This disease sometimes leads to the occurrence of bending because frequent satellites of osteocartilage degeneration are muscle spasms that occur during head slopes and neck rotation.Meanwhile, a person is usually unable to turn his head because of increased pain in the stump of the head or shoulder.
If blood vessels are squeezed, blood supply is disturbed or pulses in the radial artery are weakened, pain in the fingers and pale skin will combine.
Another complication is the surroundings of the shoulder bag, which is due to violations of the bonding of the shoulder and spots to the central nervous system.Results - The changes in malnutrition, over time, only increase.
The main problem is that this pathology happens secretly for a long time and patients may not notice them.
The main symptom is causal pain, which manifests as mentioned earlier.Where pain can be felt, kidnapping hands to the side will cause severe pain.
Since the patient tries not to disturb the limbs to avoid pain again, the effect of "freezing shoulders" can be formed due to inactivity of the joints, and if treatment cannot be started in time, a person will be unable to raise his hands above the level.
What are the signs of the disease in the second group?
The symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis that occur due to the pathology of the spinal cord are the symptoms of the second group.Symptoms can lead to compression created by the pulp core that falls off the disk due to its softening, or due to damage to the spinal cord.
Usually, weaknesses in the limbs add such symptoms, and reduced muscle tone is felt in the hands, but instead, the legs are increased, but no weight loss is observed.Sometimes painless muscle grunts occur (usually after forty years, less after fifty-five, almost never in youth).Similar complications were found in those with atherosclerosis or arrhythmia.
The spinal cord (a problem with problems between the fifth and sixth vertebrae) can tolerate changes called bone marrow disease.Often, this pathology occurs due to injury from the spine or overvoltage, which touches the muscles of the shoulder, but sometimes stress or alcoholism can be the root cause.
There are also clinical manifestations that can be performed without increasing temperature or reduced sensitivity, which is why a person no longer feels annoying effects, which can be on the skin of the neck, arms and chest in any way.Additionally, rupture or pain may occur and the patient is wearing the hand.
The osteocartilage of the cervical vertebrae is also characterized by "semiconductor disease syndrome", which occurs when blood is insufficient in spinal cord components.As a result, legs are tired when walking or standing.Sometimes the brush is numb, occasionally - feet, discomfort.Coordination can also be done, especially when the patient closes his eyes.
Although these signs show a certain frequency, they will not deprive patients of job opportunities and a person will be able to live a normal lifestyle.
What signs belong to the third group of the disease?
The symptoms and signs of the third group are associated with brain manifestations of the disease due to insufficient blood flow in the system, which is responsible for ensuring a sufficient amount of blood and falling into the spinal compartment over time.The system is formed by the main blood vessels, which acts as a vertebral artery.
Which syndromes are characteristic of this group of symptoms?
Hypothalamic syndrome, which is most commonly found in cervical osteochondrosis, is characterized by emotional instability, irritability and high fatigue, anxiety, dissatisfaction, and sleep disorders (the patient is not sleeping well and cannot feel the feeling that he does not sleep).Additionally, the opportunity to concentrate is lost, the problem of memory begins, and everything will be uncomfortable.Sometimes, desire, anger, causal fear, anxiety will join in.The skin turns white, the limbs are very cold, the patient increases sweating, and the stress usually increases, but the appetite and libido decrease.
Drip syndrome is characterized by a causal and unconscious attack (sometimes loss of consciousness, sometimes unconsciousness), which is caused by vasospasm.If the patient lies down and lowers his head, consciousness will recover almost immediately.After weaknesses, a feeling of collapse may occur and headaches will be added.
The signs of vestibular barrel syndrome at the beginning of the disease are dizziness, which appears to be due to an inadequate blood supply, an onset of nausea and vomiting, and a startling walk.
Symptoms of the cochlear syndrome ring and noise in the ears that are usually on one side may reduce hearing, i.e. hollow hollow.Usually, this syndrome starts with the previous synthesis, but its independent manifestations are also possible.With these signs, it is difficult to understand the diagnosis of cervical osteochondrosis.
With a pharyngeal syndrome, there is a feeling that there is a foreign body in the throat, other signs and itching in the throat, the sound becomes deaf, the wizard's throat, the pain occurs, the pain occurs in it and in the throat.The patient was tired during the conversation and needed to take a leave. In addition, it was difficult to swallow the soup and observed spasms in the esophagus.Short-term rest can save on these manifestations.
Symptoms of visual impairment are expressed by the disease - the fog in front of the eyes, and the vision is reduced.
What are the dangers of this disease?
If you do not diagnose appropriate treatment in time, radiation disease may begin when signs of cervical osteochondrosis appear, and the nerve roots will be affected and the patient will lose the ability to move, but the greatest danger is compression of the spinal cord, which can lead to death.
Since cervical osteochondrosis is the most dangerous form of this disease, brain circulation may be disturbed, and therefore migraines, hypertension, vegetative dystonia, pathology of the cardiovascular and respiratory system, visual problems, hearing and coordination begin.The reproductive form of the disease causes syndrome in the vertebral artery that provides blood from the oblong brain and cerebellum, and if squeezed, it may begin ischemia in the brain or spinal cord, a manifestation that may cause a spinal stroke.
Don't leave such a dangerous illness without paying attention, as the consequences can affect your ability to work and lifestyle and if the first symptoms appear, you need to seek help from an expert right away.How to treat osteochondrosis in the cervical spine, after a thorough examination, the attending doctor decides.