Cervical osteochondrosis is a common pathology associated with the destruction of cartilage in the cervical spinal joint.
Signs of cervical osteochondrosis are most commonly shown in intervals between 20 and 40 years, the disease describes headaches in one third of cases.If you do not prescribe treatment on time, the disease will go further and, most likely, trigger an intervertebral disc hernia or intervertebral protrusion.
Significant problems are due to the contradictory symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, the diagnosis may be difficult.Some of the features of the disease, which will be discussed further, can lead to the fact that the patient will go to the doctor on time, which will complicate the diagnosis of neck osteochondrosis and further treatment.
Often, acute cervical osteochondrosis develops when one brings an inactive lifestyle, and from the moment, with technological and science development, there has been a gradual human transition from physical to intellectual labor (respectively, to sitting lifestyle), it is not surprising that the disease is extensive today.
Further, the signs of the neck osteochondrosis, as well as their differences in the symptoms that accompany the disease with damage to other spinal departments, will be examined in detail.
The cause of the disease is salt deposits in the cervical spine during continuous work on the computer or driving, metabolic disorders, inactive lifestyle and malnutrition.
The disease can also be provoked by systemic lupus erythematosus, neck injury, hypothermia, heredity, hormone and rheumatic disorders.
Symptoms of different neck osteochondrosis and groups of signs
Before switching to more detailed symptom considerations, you should recognize a set of common signs of the disease.
Therefore, 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 are increased even with weak loads, during sneezing or cough attacks;
- pain and crisis in the neck while trying to turn on the head;
- with numbness and tingling in the limbs, the burning of the back area, near the shoulder blade and between them;
- Headaches that start from the occipital region and spread to the crown and temple;
- dizziness and fainting with a sharp turn of head;
- Weaknesses and fatigue, rapid fatigue.
Symptoms of the remaining symptoms are expressed by attracting heart disease and noise in his ears, the patient does not hear well, his vision can decrease.
All of these processes can be in line with other clinical signs.
Since traditional pain in the neck is sometimes adjacent to symptoms that are not typical for osteochondrosis that is not associated with the disease.For example, some will be compared to osteochondrosis of the neck weakness in the legs, elite pain or worsening vision - and the article aims to tell the symptoms of the disease that is accessible.
To understand how neck osteochondrosis is shown, it is necessary to divide the cervical osteochondrosis syndrome into three groups, depending on the involvement of the central nervous system pathology.
The first group usually includes neurological features that are considered a complication of the disease that arise from the effects of pathological processes in the peripheral area of the nervous system.
The second group is considered to be a symptom, which can be clearly under the influence of disease on the spinal cord.
The third group includes symptoms associated with the process that occurs during cervical osteochondrosis in the brain.
In short, we can say this: The first group includes the signs responsible for the manifestation of pain, the second - for motor disorders, the third - for the pathological effects of the vessels.
Symptoms can be manifest separately or in a combination of these groups, but usually one of them is dominant.
Signs that belong to the first group of the disease
What are the symptoms called cervical osteochondrosis in this case?As mentioned, this group includes pain, which can be cleared due to the loss of the pathological process of the peripheral part of the nervous system.
Painful manifestations of the neck, radicolite cervical and lateral regional regions are also symptoms of this group, which is also characterized by chest pain, in the muscles and joints.
Neck pain is the first symptom of osteochondrosis of the neck, and it shows itself in almost all patients.Often starts in the morning and increases as a person changes, it causes laughter, cough, sneezing, unsuccessful neck turn.Pain is usually drilling, stupid, sometimes shooting, locally in the neck, but sometimes spreading to the shoulder area.
Such pain can occur periodically or persistently, they differ in duration and strength.
Sometimes painful manifestations are sharp, but they are expressed different-they can be felt by the "current shot", and at the same time a person feels the pain of shooting, all individually.
The neck muscles can be tense, and then it becomes difficult to breathe.In addition, during the period of osteochondrosis of the neck, the patient takes a certain pose - holding his head, tilting it forward and to the side, and it is very difficult for him to rotate with it during the bastard.
Frequent symptoms are sound phenomena, they can occur while trying to turn their heads on, expressed with complexity and cracks.This is what shows the neglect of the disease.
Sometimes people believe that the disease is triggered by the wrong position in dreams, hypothermia, sharp head turns and neck loads.
Factors and signs that accompany the symptoms of the first group
The factors listed above are true -can lead to pain, but more often they only worsen the symptoms of existing diseases, not the main cause of cervical spinal osteochondrosis.
Cervical pain and shots are not all symptoms of this group, except them, various types of radiculitis in the neck and shoulders, resulting in painful manifestations in the upper and back cervical areas.
The pain is increasing during the rotation of the head, sometimes it even passes through the belt and arms, it causes tension in the muscles associated with the nerve root.Often, they suffer in the sixth and seventh departments for squeezing the vertebrae.The sixth department pathology leads to pain in the arm and thumb, seventh - to the painful manifestation of the middle finger.Rarely for this disease, damage to the eighth department is full of pain to small fingers.
With the upper vertebral wounds and the cervical disc, the occipital nerves are included in the painful process, which is full of continuous new pain.Sometimes the pain becomes stronger, and then the sensitivity is gone, you can also find a pain point that looks like a small seal.
As changes begin to the neck, due to the affected blood supply, the formation of cervical vegetative may suffer.Symptoms of burning pain are consolidated, 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 becomes pale and thin, cool.Also, losing sensitivity to touch, or rather, reinforcement.Tachycardia joins, heart disease, pupils change.
Additional marks related to the first group
Neck osteochondrosis is also characterized by discomfort in the hand (usually this occurs at night).This is called a dead night, usually a diagnosis is made after forty years to those whose lifestyle is associated with a variety of physical activities.
The additional signs of the first group are tingling and numbness, pain and discomfort in the hands, and since attacks are more frequent at night, dreams are disturbed by them.
The symptoms of this group reach its peak when strong degenerative changes occur in the neck and vertebra, which indicate the pathology of the autonomic nervous system.This is due to the fact that the vegetative nodes located too close to the spine are not enough to be provided with blood.
The disease sometimes contributes to crooked events, as frequent osteochondrosis satellites are muscle cramps that occur during head slopes and neck rotation.At the same time, one cannot turn his head normally due to increased pain in the back of the head or stumps.
Pain in the fingers and pale skin combine if the vessel is squeezed, blood supply is interrupted or pulse in the weak radial artery.
Another complication is the shoulder -wrapped periictatrite, which is caused by a violation of the shoulder and spatular parts with the central nervous system.As a result - dystrophic changes, over time only increases.
The main problem is that such pathologies have been secretive for a long time, and patients may not be aware of it.
The main symptoms are in the pain of the joints that are not caused, as it is, as stated, at night.Painful places can be felt, and the hand over the side causes sharp pain.
Because the patient will try not to interfere with the limbs to avoid pain again, as it is inactive in the joints, the effects of "freezing shoulders" can be formed, and if treatment does not start in time, one will not be able to raise your hands above the horizontal level.
What are the signs of the second group of the disease?
Symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis caused by spinal cord pathology are symptoms of the second group.Symptoms can cause compression produced by the pulpoose core that falls from the disc as a result of softening, or due to spinal cord injury.
Often, weakness in the limbs participate in such symptoms, reduced muscle tone is felt in the hands, but on the contrary, it increases in the legs, but weight loss is not observed.Sometimes -sometimes painless muscle grunts develop (usually it occurs after forty years, less often after fifty -five, and almost never in its youth).The same complications are present in people with anamnesis of atherosclerosis or arrhythmia.
The spinal cord (with a problem with the disc between the fifth and sixth vertebra) can withstand a change called myelopathy.Usually, this pathology is caused by spinal injury or overvoltage, which touches the shoulder muscles, but sometimes pressure or alcohol poisoning can be the main cause.
There are also clinical manifestations as it continues without an increase in temperature or loss of sensitivity, so one stops feeling the annoying effects that can be in any way on the skin, arms and chest.In addition, fractured or painful pain may occur, the patient's hands wear.
Cervical vertebral osteochondrosis is also characterized by "semiconductor disorder syndrome" that occurs when the spinal cord is not provided with blood.As a result, while walking or standing, the feet are very tired.Sometimes the brush is numb, sometimes -feet, discomfort may appear in it.Coordination is also possible, especially if the patient closes his eyes.
Despite the specific frequency of these signs of the signs, they will not prevent patients with the opportunity to work, and one will be able to live a normal lifestyle.
What are the three groups of the disease?
Symptoms and signs of the third group are related to the manifestation of the brain of the disease that arises due to inadequate blood flow in the system, which is responsible for ensuring that blood is in sufficient quantity and in the fall into the spinal cord.The system is formed from the main vessel as a vertebral artery.
What syndrome characterizes this group of symptoms?
Hypothalamic syndrome in cervical spinal osteochondrosis is most commonly found, the strikes are mood instability, high irritation and fatigue, anxiety, anger, sleep disorders (patients do not fall asleep, increasing with the feeling that he does not sleep).In addition, the opportunity to concentrate is lost, the problem with memory begins, and discomfort is felt in all things.Sometimes, longing, anger, no fear, anxiety can join.The skin becomes pale, the limbs are cold, the patient increases sweating, stress often increases, but sexual desire and desire are reduced.
Drops Syndrome is characterized by an unauthorized faint attack (sometimes with loss of consciousness, sometimes without it), this is a vascular spasm.Awareness returns immediately if the patient puts and loweres his head.After weakness, damage may occur, headaches combine.
The signs of vestibular-bariel syndrome at the beginning of the disease are dizziness, which arises due to insufficient blood supply, nausea and vomiting, shocking while walking.
Symptoms of cochlear syndrome and noise in the ear, usually on one side, can reduce hearing, hollow hollow.Usually this syndrome is from the previous one, but the free manifestation is also possible.It is difficult to understand the diagnosis of cervical osteochondrosis with these signs.
With pharyngeon-minute syndrome, there is a feeling that there are foreign objects in the throat, other signs and itching in the throat, the voice of the deaf, the larynx, and the pain occurs in it and the throat.The patient became tired during the conversation, he needed a vacation, in addition, it was difficult to swallow thick foods, esophageal spasms were observed.Short rest can save this manifestation.
Symptoms of visual disorders are expressed by disorders - fog before the eyes, decreased vision.
What is the danger of the disease?
If you do not diagnose adequate treatment in time, when signs of cervical spinal osteochondrosis appear, radiculopathy can begin, where the nerve root is affected, and the patient loses mobility, but the biggest danger is to compress the spinal cord, which can lead to death.
With neck osteochondrosis, this most dangerous form of disease, cerebral circulation can be interrupted, due to migraine, hypertension, vegetable dystonia, cardiovascular and respiratory system pathology, vision problems, hearing and coordination will begin.The form of the disease controlled leads to the vertebral artery syndrome, which supplies oval and cerebellum blood, and if the artery is squeezed, then the brain or spinal cord can begin, such manifestations can cause spinal stroke.
Do not leave dangerous diseases such as cervical osteochondrosis, as a result can affect the ability to work and lifestyle in general, and if the first symptoms appear, you should seek the help of a specialist immediately.How to treat cervical spinal osteochondrosis, the attending physician decides after a thorough examination.