Cervical osteochondrosis is a common pathology associated with the destruction of the cartilage in the cervical spine joints.
Signs of cervical osteochondrosis manifest more often in the range between 20 and 40 years, this disease explains headaches in a third of cases.If you do not prescribe timely treatment, the disease will enter the advanced phase and, most likely, provoke an intervertebral disc herniation or intervertebral extension.
An important problem is that due to the contradictory symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, a diagnosis can be difficult.Some traits 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 further treatment.
Most often, acute cervical osteochondrosis develops when a person runs a sedentary lifestyle, and from the moment, with the development of technology and science, there is a gradual transition of humanity from mainly physical work to intellectual (respectively, in a sedentary way), it is not surprising that this disease is broken today.
Further, signs of neck osteochondrosis, as well as their changes from the symptoms associated with the disease with the damage to other spinal departments, will be examined in detail.
The causes of this disease are the deposits of salts on the cervical spine during constant work on the computer or driving a car, metabolic disorders, inactive lifestyle and malnutrition.
The disease can also be provoked by systemic lupus erythematosis, neck damage, hypothermia, inheritance, hormonal disorders and rheumatism.
Symptoms of osteochondrosis of the neck and different groups of signs
Before going to a more detailed consideration of the symptoms, you must familiarize yourself with a certain set of general signs of the disease.
So the general symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis are expressed:
- Pain in the cervical and shoulder departments, in the hands and back of the head, and painful manifestations also improve with poor loads, sneezing or cough attacks;
- pain and cramping on your neck when you try to turn your head;
- with numbness and tingling in the limbs, burning of the rear area, near the shoulder blade and between them;
- headaches starting from the occipital region and spread to the crown and temples;
- dizziness and pallor with sharp head curves;
- Weakness and fatigue, rapid fatigue.
The remaining symptoms are expressed by attracting heart pain and noise in his ears, the patient does not hear well, his vision can 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 will be compared to osteochondrosis of the neck weakness, elite pain or deteriorating vision - and the article is aimed at showing the symptoms of this disease as possible.
To understand how neck osteochondrosis is manifested, it is necessary to divide the cervical osteochondrosis syndromes into three groups, which will depend on involvement in the pathology of the central nervous system.
The first group usually includes neurological traits considered as complications of the disease that arise due to the influence of pathological processes on the peripheral region of the nervous system.
The second group is considered symptoms, which can only manifest 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.
We can briefly say this: The first group includes signs responsible for the manifestations of the patients, the second - for motor disorders, the third - for the pathological effects on the ship.
Symptoms can manifest separately or in combination of these groups, but usually one of them is predominant.
Signs belonging to the first group of illness
What symptoms are pronounced with cervical osteochondrosis in this case?As stated, this group includes pain, which can manifest due to the loss of the pathological process of the peripheral section of the nervous system.
Painful manifestations in the neck, cervical region radicolitis and laterals are also symptoms of this group, which is also characterized by pain in the chest, muscles and joints.
Neck pain is the first symptom of neck osteochondrosis, and it manifests itself in almost all patients.Most often it starts in the morning and intensifies when a person turns, he provokes laughter, cough, sneezing, an unsuccessful neck twist.The pain is usually pierced, stupid, sometimes shooting, localized inside the neck, but occasionally spreads to the shoulder region.
Such pains can occur periodically or last constantly, they are different in duration and strength.
Sometimes the painful manifestations are sharp, but they are expressed differently-they may be felt by the "actual blow", and at the same time someone feels a pain with the shooting that is drilling, everything individually.
The neck muscles can be tense, and then it becomes difficult to breathe.In addition, during the acute period of osteochondrosis of the neck, the patient takes certain poses - keeps the head, bending it forward and on the side, and it is very difficult for him to rotate with her long bastard.
Frequent symptoms are the phenomena of noise, they can occur when trying to turn their heads, expressed with cramping and cracking.This is what shows the neglect of the disease.
Sometimes people believe that the disease is caused by the wrong position in a dream, hypothermia, sharp head curves and the load on the neck.
Factors and signs that accompany the symptoms of the first group
The factors listed above can cause pain, but more often they only exacerbate the existing symptoms of the disease, not being the main causes of cervical spine osteochondrosis.
Pain and cervical shooting are not all symptoms of this group, except them, different types of radiculitis of 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 the rotation of the head, sometimes even passes through the shoulder strap and arms, it provokes tension in the muscles associated with the nerve roots.Most often, they suffer in the sixth and seventh departments due to the squeezing of the vertebrae.The pathology of the sixth department leads to pain in the forearm and thumb, the stature - in painful manifestations in the middle finger.Rare for this disease, the eighth department damage is fraught with the spread of pain in the little finger.
With lesions of the upper vertebrae and cervical discs, the occipital nerve is included in painful processes, which is filled with new pains that are constant.Sometimes these pains become stronger, and then the sensitivity of the napa is lost, you can even find a drop of pain that looks like a small seal.
Since the changes begin in the neck, due to the supply of damaged blood, vegetative cervical formations can suffer.Symptoms as burning pain is joined, which becomes stronger during physical and emotional stress or when changing weather conditions.In addition, the color of the hands and hands changes, the swelling appears, the skin turns pale and dilutes, becoming cold.Also, the disappearance of sensitivity to the touch, or vice versa, its strengthening.Tachycardia joins, heart pain, students change.
Additional signs with respect to the first group
Neck osteochondrosis is also manifested by discomfort in the hands (usually this happens at night).This is called Night dies, usually the diagnosis is made after forty years for those who live, whose style is associated with various physical activities.
Additional signs of the first group are tingling and bone numbness, pain and discomfort in the hands, and since attacks most often occur at night, a dream worrys because of them.
Symptoms of this group reach its peak when strong degenerative changes in the neck and beads occur, which indicates the pathologies of the autonomic nervous system.This is due to the fact that the vegetative joints located very close to the spine are not provided enough with blood.
This disease sometimes contributes to the appearance of crooked, as the frequent satellites of osteochondrosis are cramps of the muscles that occur during the slopes of the head and the 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 trunks.
Pain in the fingers and pallor of the skin joins if the vessels are squeezed, the blood supply is disturbed or the pulse in the radial arteries weakens.
Another complication is the shoulder -filled periactatrite, which occurs due to the violation of the connection of the shoulder and shoulder sections to the central nervous system.As a result - dystrophic changes, over time only increasing.
The main problem is that such pathologies occur secretly for a long time, and the patient may not notice them.
The main symptoms are in the pain of unsaturated joints, which manifest, as already observed, at night.Painful places can feel, and abduction of the hands on the side causes a sharp pain.
Since the patient will try not to disturb the limb so as not to experience pain once again, due to inactivity in the joints, the effect of a "frozen shoulder" may form, and if the treatment does not start in time, a person will not be able to raise a hand above the horizontal level.
What are the signs of the second group of this disease?
Symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis that occur due to spinal cord pathologies are symptoms of the second group.Symptoms can lead to compression produced by a pulpous nucleus that falls from the disk due to its softening, or due to spinal cord damage.
Often, limb weakness joins such symptoms, a reduced muscle tone is felt in the hands, but on the contrary, it is increased in the leg, but weight loss is not observed.Sometimes muscle -free quarrel develops (usually occurs after forty years, less often after fifty -five, and almost never in youth).Similar complications are found in those people who have an anamnesis of atherosclerosis or arrhythmias.
Spinal cord (with disk problems between fifth and sixth vertebra) can endure the change called myelopathy.Typically, this pathology occurs due to spinal cord injuries or overload, which affected the shoulder muscles, but sometimes stress or poisoning from alcohol can be the root cause.
There are also such clinical manifestations that continue without raising temperature or loss of sensitivity, which is why a person ceases to feel an annoying 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 worn.
Osteochondrosis of the cervical vertebra is also characterized by "semiconductor disorder syndrome" that occurs when parts of the spinal cord are poorly provided with blood.As a result, when walking or standing, your legs are very tired.Sometimes brushes are numb, occasionally - foot, discomfort can appear in them.Coordination is also possible, especially if the patient close the eyes.
Despite the certain frequency of the appearance of these signs, they will not deprive the patient with the opportunity to work, and a person will be able to lead a normal lifestyle.
What signs belong to the third group of this disease?
Symptoms and signs of the third group relate to manifestations of the brain of the disease that appear due to insufficient blood flow to the system, which is responsible for ensuring that blood in sufficient quantities falls into the spinal cord compartments.This system is formed by the main ships such as vertebral arteries.
Which syndromes characterize this set of symptoms?
Hypothalamic syndrome in cervical spine osteochondrosis is found more often, its symptoms are mood instability, irritability and high fatigue, anxiety, dissatisfaction, sleep disorder (the patient does not fall asleep, rise with the feeling that he did not sleep).In addition, the chance to concentrate loses, the memory problems begin, and the embarrassment is felt in everything.Occasionally, desire, anger, fear without cause, anxiety can join.The skin becomes pale, the limbs are cold, the patient increases sweating, pressure often increases, but appetite and sexual desire decrease.
Point syndrome is characterized by faint attacks without cause (sometimes with loss of consciousness, sometimes without it), the reason for this is vascular cramps.Awareness returns almost immediately if the patient is laying and lowering his head.After weakness, a feeling of decay can occur, headaches join.
Signs of vestibular barrel syndrome at the beginning of the disease are dizziness, which appears due to insufficient blood supply, nausea and vomiting attacks, stunning when walking.
Symptoms of cochlear-fucchi syndrome and ear noise syndrome, usually on the one hand, can reduce hearing, Hollow Hollow.Usually this syndrome continues 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 pharyngion-minute syndrome, there is a feeling that there is a foreign object in the throat, other signs and itching in the throat, the sound becomes dull, the larynx of the wizards and the pain appears in it and in the throat.The patient gets tired during a conversation, he needs vacation, in addition, it is difficult to swallow thick foods, esophagus spasms are observed.A short -term break can maintain these manifestations.
Symptoms of visual disorders are expressed by disorders - fog before the eyes, a decrease in vision.
What is the risk of illness?
If you do not diagnose adequate treatment in time, when signs of cervical spine osteochondrosis appear, then radiculopathy may begin, in which the nerve roots are affected, and the patient loses mobility, but the greatest risk is to compress the spinal cord, which can lead to death.
With neck osteochondrosis, the most dangerous form of this disease, cerebral circulation may be disturbed, due to which migraine, hypertension, vegetable dystonia, pathology of cardiovascular systems, vision problems, hearing and coordination will begin.The glowing forms of the disease lead to vertebral artery syndrome, which supplies the blood of the prolonged brain and brain, and if the artery is squeezed, then the ischemia of the brain or spinal cord may begin, such manifestations may provoke a spinal cord.
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 should seek help from a specialist immediately.How to treat the cervical back osteochondrosis, the attending doctor decides after a thorough examination.