Osteochondrosis of the cervical region is a degenerative-dystrophic disease that affects the cartilage tissues of the intervertebral discs, provoking the pathological change in the vertebrae.The need for hospitalization occurs only with exacerbation with a sharp deterioration in good behavior, usually provoked by washing the vertebrae with enthusiastic vertebrae.
In most cases, the treatment of osteochondrosis is performed at home.The patient is shown a course of chondroprotectors, massage and physiotherapy procedures, adherence to a frugal diet.But the main method of therapy for the disease is daily medical physical education or gymnastics.Patients are also recommended for swimming, yoga, long walks in the fresh air.
Medication
Drugs from various clinical and farmic groups are used in cervical osteochondrosis.To eliminate acute neck and nape pain, non -steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, analgesics in tablets or injection solutions are used.And the use of ointments and plasters helps to get rid of the inconvenient feelings of weak or medium weight, including warming effects.
With osteochondrosis of 1 or 2 severity, chondroprotectors are included in therapeutic regimens.These are stimulants of the regeneration of cartilage tissues of the intervertebral discs and damaged ligaments, tendons, muscles.With the help of a long (from 3 months to several years), the course of chondroprotectors manages to partially restore the cartilage of hyaline, to normalize the functioning of the cervical spine.
The concentration of active ingredients (glucosamine, chondroitin) of drugs in the area of damaged tissues is gradually increasing.Their analgesic, decongestant and anti -inflammatory action soon began to appear.Chondroprotectors are not used in the treatment of grade 3 osteochondrosis, as the destructive processes have affected almost all connective structures.
| A clinical and farmic group of medicines used in the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis | Pharmacological actions and therapeutic effect |
| Non -steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs | Relieve inflammatory processes, reducing the severity of pain and swelling, increasing the volume of movements |
| In vitamins B | Normalizing the innervation of skeletal muscles, restoring the optimal transmission of the excitement and metabolism of mediators, the regeneration of damaged nerves |
| Agents that improve blood supply | Improving the rheological properties of blood and nutrition of damaged nerve roots, stimulating blood circulation in the brain, eliminating headache and dizziness |
| Monsolelaxants | Relaxation of skeletal muscles, release of impaired nerve roots and blood vessels |
Medical physical education
The use of pharmacological preparations, warming of compresses, massage procedures will not help to eliminate the symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, will stop its progression.Only regular, daily physiotherapy exercises are slowed down and then completely stop the destruction of cartilage tissues.The exercise complex is drawn up by a doctor for exercise, taking into account the stage of pathology and sports training of the patient.The first workouts are also controlled under his control and then the patient deals with the home.
Osteochondrosis exercises.
There should be no uncomfortable sensations in the process of exercising, including vertebrogenic conservation, increased blood pressure.The movements should be smooth, with a small amplitude.Only in this way can blood circulation improve in the cervical spine and at the same time avoid loads of damaged intervertebral discs.Usually, exercise doctors include the following exercises in the treatment complex:
- Lie on your stomach, rest your hands on the floor.Holding your back evenly, lift your head and upper half of the body, stay in this position for a minute and then sink smoothly.First, perform 3-4 times as the muscle corset is enhanced-10-15 times;
- Lie on your stomach, stretch your hands on your body.Turn your head first in one, then in the other direction, touching the floor of the floor with your ear.Do exercise 10 times to the right and left;
- Sit in a chair or chair, take a deep breath and lean forward, trying to touch your chin on your chest.Exhale, lean back, throw your head a little.Repeat 15-20 times;
- Sit down, put your hands on your forehead.Try to bend your head forward while both resistant to your palms for a minute.Repeat the exercise 5-7 times;
- Sit, put your palms on your knees.Smoothly, slowly rotate your head to the right, then to the left.Perform 10 rotations in one, then in the other direction.
It is strictly forbidden to train during the exacerbation of cervical osteochondrosis due to the high likelihood of pinching the nerve or squeezing of the vertebrae.The training should also be discontinued with SARS, influenza and other infections that cause fever.
Massage
Classic, vacuum, acupressure are used in the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis.Healing procedures contribute to improving blood circulation and strengthening the muscle corset, stabilizing the vertebrae and intervertebral discs.At home you can massage 1-3 times a day in one of the following methods:
- Take your hands behind your back with a soft cloth attached and produce intense rubbing on the back of the neck.At the last stage of the massage, make a few vigorous patches with your palms;
- The procedure should start with soft rubbing of the skin and then omed.Make a few tapping, pinching, cutting movements.Finger pads for 10 minutes massage the skin around the protruding vertebrae.Complete massage with bunny and rubbing.
At a pharmacy or medical equipment store you can buy special massagers - wooden, equipped with sills or electric.Such devices and devices make it easier to massage at home.Some models have a heating function, there are several speed modes.
Applicators have proven to treat cervical osteochondrosis.They are small carpets or rollers with very sharp spikes.In contact with the skin, the receptors located in the subcutaneous tissue are irritated.The blood begins to add to damaged discs and vertebrae, normalizing the tissue trophic.
Folk remedies
Following the main treatment of osteochondrosis, the achievement of sustainable remission, vertebrologists allow the use of folk remedies, but only with proven clinical effectiveness.The therapeutic effect of most compresses or rubbing consists in an increase in body temperature in the neck due to irritation of sensitive nerve endings.It is impractical to use agents that are located as stimulants of regeneration.Trace elements, vitamins, other biologically active substances are not able to penetrate the surface of the skin into the vertebrae and restore them.
Infusion 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 the use of folk remedies should be discussed with a vertebologist or neurologist.
Before applying the compress or application mixture, you must rub the small amount in the elbow.If an hour later on the skin does not look redness, rash, a small rash, then you can proceed to medical procedures.
Compresses and applications
Physiotherapy procedures with ozoquet and paraffin can be performed at home.These natural hydrocarbons have approximately the same point of melting, so they are often combined with each other.Paraffin and ozocker are sold in pharmacies and are relatively cheap.They are mixed in a 1: 1 proportion and melted in a water bath and then cooled to a temperature of 40-45 ° C. A layer of warm mixture is applied to the back of the neck with a wide brush or wooden spatula and the hardening 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.It is especially popular to apply to damaged discs and vertebrae of fresh, smeared with honey, cabbage leaves, horseradish, bundle, plantain.But the best therapeutic effect has a compress with a solution of sea salt.To prepare it in 200 ml of warm water, dilute a tablespoon with large grains of salt.Wrap a large sterile napkin into the solution and apply to the neck until it is completely dry.
Grinding
For the preparation of friction, vodka or ethyl alcohol is used, diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1. It is better for people with sensitive skin to insist on vegetable raw materials on olive, sunflower or flaxseed oil.Most often, rubbing with different parts of garden horseradish - roots, flowers and arrows are used in cervical osteochondrosis therapy.They are cut into small pieces, placed in an opaque glass or ceramic container, arranged and poured with vodka or oil.They insist in a warm place where the sun's rays do not penetrate for 1-2 months, they are periodically shaken to better extract bioactive substances.Rub the garbage twice a day at the back of the neck.
Instead of horseradish, you can use nettle, bundle, saberfish, plantain.Folk healers recommend adding 3 drops of juniper, fir, pine trees, a tablespoon with Trifon up to 0.5 liters of finished tinctures.
Herbal infusions
With cervical osteochondrosis you should drink plenty of fluids - in the absence of contraindications up to 3 liters a day.This helps to eliminate toxins, toxins, tissue breakdown products, harmful mineral salts from the spinal structures.The use of approximately 2 cups of herbal infusions a day will also eliminate the sluggish inflammatory processes, muscle spasms, relieve the pain and stiffness of movement.Thyme, chamomile, sage, coltsfoot, nails, bears, corn stigms are used for their preparation.
How to Boil Healing Tea:
- Pour into a thermos on a teaspoon of dry plant materials;
- Pour 2 liters of boiling water, insist for 2-3 hours;
- Cool, strain, take 0.5 glasses 3-4 times a day after meals.
A decoction of birch buds will help improve well -being, increase the volume of movements in the cervical region.2 tablespoons of raw materials are poured with 2 cups of warm water and dropped over low heat for 15 minutes.Cool, filter, take 100 ml three times a day while eating.
There are often recommendations on the Internet for the use of a large number of gelatin dishes - jelly, jelly, fishing floods, jelly of berries.It is claimed to be contained in food, collagen provides regeneration of destroyed cartilage.In fact, this chondroprotector quickly breaks down into the gastrointestinal tract and is removed from the body.Not only does this method of therapy not accelerate the treatment of osteochondrosis, it also contributes to its progression due to the rapid increase in body weight.