Osteochondrosis is often referred to as a disease caused by a person directly walking, the transition to the disease of the civilized world. In fact, the load on the spine in modern people is almost never distributed evenly, and osteochondrosis is characterized by damage to intervertebral discs. Every year, this disease is increasingly suffering from the world's population. At any age, one may suffer from pain, seizures and other osteochondrosis manifestations, which cause, among other things, many other diseases. The development of the disease is influenced not only by hereditary factors or age -related changes, as in the past, but also the aggravating environmental situation, also food products that cause more damage than people's benefits and other living conditions in the 21st century. The most common type of osteochondrosis is the lumbar and second place in the cervical spine is occupied by osteochondrosis (cervical osteochondrosis).
The main causes of osteocondrosis of the cervix region
Despite the development of progressive treatment methods, science and medical technologies, the modern world continues to face various diseases related to the spine. Among the important causes of osteochondrosis can be called:
1. Causes of objective nature in the presence of special attention to your own spine
- Hereditary predisposition: osteochondrosis can be inherited. If relatives have suffered from such a disease, you must take all possible preventive measures to prevent it from developing
- Age -related changes: With age, the body is less and less producing useful substances that need to keep the spine in a healthy condition. In order for osteochondrosis to develop more slowly, you need to take care of young people
2. Reasons for a person's lifestyle. Can easily be eliminated if they are not stable and even better to follow the principles of a healthy lifestyle immediately
- Nutrition: What one eats directly affects your health. The noticeable, rapid improvement brings the rejection of salt, sugar, flour and fatty foods from consuming products, including preservatives and paints, chocolate and alcohol. On the contrary, you need to include the products that help build bones and cartilage (such as sour Milk products)
- Overweight: The natural consequence of malnutrition is the increase in weight that leads to an increase in vertebrae
- Hypothermia: Whatever hypothermia, drafts should be avoided. If this happened, it was quickly done for treatment, bringing it to the end
- Spinal injuries eventually inevitably affect its condition
- Hypodynamia: Little mobility negatively affects all parts of the spine
- Poisoning also affects intervertebral discs and prevents the absorption of useful micro and macro elements. Smoking and alcohol are the main causes of body intoxication
- Stress: Sleeping, depression, and negative emotional state do not seem to be related to the inconvenience tested on the cervical spine with osteocondrosis. However, this is not the case
Symptoms of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine
Treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical spine should be started as early as possible. As with all advanced forms, it is much more difficult to treat and the consequences affect the whole body. Symptoms of osteochondrosis are sometimes attributed to other diseases. In the case of differences from the norm, you should immediately consult a doctor and review your lifestyle. Symptoms of the cervix osteochondrosis are as follows:
- Pain, primarily in the occlital region, between blades, in the neck
- Feeling in the shoulders
- Numbness of fingers (mainly while sleeping)
- If, due
- The legs of angina pectoris may prove to be false - cervical hotel osteochondrosis often occur
- Headache
- In some cases, the vision also deteriorates with osteochondrosis of the cervical region
- Noise, congestion, ringing in the ear. In some cases, hearing deterioration is possible
- Is limited due to pain in the head of the head
- Deficiency of oxygen that can be expressed by shortness of breath, snoring, and increased fatigue
- Nausea and sometimes vomiting
- The fluctuation of blood pressure
In the absence of proper treatment, the symptoms can be in acute forms: for example, paralysis of the upper limbs may occur, the cervical region often appears in the region, sleeping due to pain, and memory deteriorates.
Methods of treating and prevention of cervical spine osteochondrosis
Diet. An important factor leading to the successful treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervix region is to adhere to diet, which does not mean that most of the products are left with osteochondrosis, on the contrary, mono-diets are contraindicated. To reduce weight, you must adhere to fractionated performance 4-5 times a day.
What products are important to restore cartilage tissue:
- meat (low greasy, non -roasted)
- Fish and seafood
- dairy products including cheese, cottage cheese, kefir
- olive oil
- Vegetables and fruits, all fresh, not canned or other processing. Broccoli, Greens, dates are particularly rich, so you need osteochondrosis with calcium
- Groups
- Nuts and seeds
- egg
- Magnesium can "secure" banana, cucumber, oatmeal, dried apricot, legumes
Products from which the neck should deny osteochondrosis:
- bakery and sweet
- Fat, acute, salty food
- conserve
- carbonated and alcoholic beverages
- Fast food products
- fat and sausage
- Strong tea and coffee
In the case of osteochondrosis, 2, 5-3 liters of clean water should be drunk, the remaining drinks and soups are not taken into account.
Physiotherapy procedures. This type of treatment has long been an excellent method of reducing pain and edema, improving blood microcirculation, relaxation and removing toxins. There are many options among physiotherapy procedures used in modern medical practice: 
- Electrophoresis and galvanization
- Ultra -frequency procedures (UHF)
- Magnetic therapy
- ultraviolet
- Paraffin and sludge baths
- Massage of the collar zone
Medicines. In case of severe pain, it can take medications to relieve inflammation. It is recommended to take vitamins and food additives in the body to replenish the lack of micro- and macro elements that can restore the necessary balance, which is nowadays difficult to achieve only using food products. The good effect of the cervix on the region is designed to reduce inflammation and pain
Medical physical education. The movement offers an opportunity for another situation. Because modern people are inactive and more often spending time in a sitting or lying position, high school to strengthen spine is simply irreplaceable. Exercises should not cause pain, discomfort, and moreover. With osteochondrosis of the cervical region, physiotherapeutic exercises aim to strengthen the neck muscles:
- Lying on the stomach, gently lift your head (straight back), keep in this position for 1-2 minutes, lower
- In the same position, turn your head on the left right
- Practice that is easy to do through the working day, sitting at the table: with your palms, resting on your forehead, forever resisting ("butt"), then crossing your arm on the back of your head and resting your head in your palm, resisting.
- This exercise does not require special conditions for fulfillment: turning the head left and right, the head turns in both directions towards the shoulders, the head tilt forward and the head rotation. It is better to break these exercises slowly while sitting while dizzy
- Because the cervical region is directly connected to other parts of the spine, it is important to strengthen the back: it must lie on the back, tighten the leg to the chest and the coil (performed on a hard surface); Lying on the back, put your feet on a chair and pull your head on your knees; kneeling, clutching his hand behind his back and trying to reach his knees with his forehead
We recommend that the exercises be done regularly, at least a few minutes a day, otherwise their effect will be minimal. You need to properly organize your sleep space: the right mattress (not pushed, flat, solid surface), and what is extremely important with osteochondrosis of the neck of the collar zone, a special hard cushion that is in some shape, must lie on the bed while sleeping.
Folk medicines. Despite the fact that osteochondrosis is a modern man's blow, people have long suffered from this disease, and therefore traditional medicine has many recipes for pain, edema, general condition and prevention:
- For home use, you can make ointments and rub ointments: red elderberries are poured with 2/3 alcohol and mature for a week - then they can start using this rubbing; The hops are rubbed with butter and rubbed into the collar area
- For internal use, they make decoction making, cook infusions, and cook herbal teas: herbal teas are recommended to cook from St. John's beer, bells, hops - 2 tablespoons of grass are cooked 0, 5 liters of water, then filter for half an hour and filter in several techniques.
Take action to treat the cervical spine osteochondrosis, remember that preventing the disease are always more effective. In addition, it requires an integrated approach to treatment for any disease, as the effect should be provided to the entire body.