Osteochondrosis of the cervical region is a degenerative-distribution disease that affects intervertebral disc cartilage tissues, causing pathological change in vertebrae.The need for hospitalization occurs only with exacerbation with a marked deterioration in the good, usually caused by the paving of the vertebral artery with an enthusiastic vertebra.
In most cases, the treatment of osteochondrosis is performed at home.The patient is shown the course of chondroprotectors, massage and physiotherapeutic procedures, compliance with a sparing diet.But the main method of therapy for the disease is daily medical physical education or gymnastics.Patients are also recommended for swimming, yoga and long walks in fresh air.
Drug treatment
In cervical osteochondrosis therapy, medicines from various clinical and agricultural groups are used.To eliminate acute neck and NAPE pain, non -esteroid anti -inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxing, painkillers in tablets or injection solutions are used.And the use of ointments and bribes helps get rid of uncomfortable sensations of weak or medium severity, including a heating action.
With osteochondrosis of 1 or 2 degrees of gravity, chondroprotectors are included in therapeutic schemes.These are stimulating of intervertebral disc cartilage regeneration and damaged ligaments, tendons and muscles.With the help of a long (3 months to several years), the course of chondroprotectors can partially restore Hyalin's cartilage, normalize the functioning of the cervical spine.
The concentration of active ingredients (glucosamine, chondroitin) of drugs in the area of damaged tissues gradually increases.Therefore, its analgesic, decongestant and anti -inflammatory action begins to appear.CondoProtectors are not used to treat third degree osteochondrosis, as destructive processes have affected almost all conjunctive structures.
| Clinical and agricultural group of medicines used to treat cervical osteochondrosis | Pharmacological action and therapeutic effect |
| Anti -non -inflammatory drugs -esteroids | Relief of inflammatory processes, reducing the severity of pain and swelling, increasing the volume of movements |
| Vitamins B B. | Standardization of innervation of skeletal muscles, restoration of the ideal transmission of excitement and metabolism of mediators, the regeneration of damaged nerves |
| Funds that improve blood supply | Improving the rheological properties of the blood and nutrition of damaged nerve roots, stimulation of blood circulation in the brain, elimination of headaches and dizziness |
| Muselaxantes | Relaxation of skeletal muscles, the liberation of infringed nerve roots and blood vessels |
Medical Physical Education
The use of pharmacological preparations, heating compresses, massage procedures will not help eliminate the symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, will interrupt their progression.Only regular and daily physical therapy exercises decrease and completely interrupt the destruction of cartilage tissues.The exercise complex is compiled by an exercise doctor, taking into account the stage of the pathology and the patient's sports preparation.The first exercises are also controlled under their control and then the patient is involved in home.
Neck exercises for osteochondrosis.
In the process of exercising, there should be no uncomfortable sensations, including a vertipa-vertipa, increasing blood pressure.The movements must be gentle, with a small amplitude.Only in this way can blood circulation be refined in the cervical spine while avoiding charges on damaged intervertebral discs.Typically, exercise doctors include the following exercise complex:
- Lie up in the stomach, rest your hands on the floor.Holding your back evenly, lift your head and upper body, take this position for one minute and then sink gently.First, perform 3-4 times, as muscle corset is strengthened 10 to 15 times;
- Lie in your stomach, stretch your hands along the body.Turn your head first in one and then in the other direction, touching the floor from the floor with your ear.Perform exercise 10 times on the right and left;
- Sit in a chair or stool, take a deep breath and lean forward, trying to touch your chest.Expire, lean back, throwing your head a little.Repeat 15-20 times;
- Sit down, put your hands on your forehead.Try to bend your head forward, resisting simultaneously to the palms for a minute.Repeat the exercise 5-7 times;
- Sit down, put your palms on your knees.Salonos, slowly rotate your head first to the right and then to the left.Make 10 rotations in one and then in the other direction.
It is strictly forbidden to train during the exacerbation of cervical osteochondrosis due to the high probability of squeezing the nerve or tightening the vertebral artery.Training should also be discontinued with SARS, influenza and other infections that cause increased temperature.
Massage
In the treatment of cervical osteochondrosis, classic, vacuum and acupressure are used.Healing procedures contribute to improving blood circulation and strengthening muscle corset, stabilizing vertebrae and intervertebral discs.At home, you can massage 1-3 times a day in one of the following methods:
- Bring your hands behind your back with a tight soft towel and produce an intensive friction on the back of the neck.In the final phase of the massage, make several energetic pats with your palms;
- The procedure should start with soft rubbing from the skin and then kneading.Make some pats, pinching cutting movements.Pillows for 10 minutes massage the skin around the protruding vertebrae.Full massage with caressing and rubbing.
In a pharmacy store or medical equipment, you can buy special - wooden or electric or electric massagers.Such devices and devices facilitate home massage.Some models have a heating function, there are several speed modes.
Applicators proved to treat cervical osteochondrosis.They are small rugs or rollers with many clear peaks.In contact with the skin, the receptors located in the subcutaneous tissue are irritated.Blood begins to add to damaged discs and vertebrae, normalizing the trophic tissue.
Popular remedies
After the main treatment of osteochondrosis, sustainable remission, vertebologists allow the use of folkloric medicines, but only with proven clinical efficiency.The therapeutic effect of most compresses or friction is to increase body temperature in the neck due to irritation of sensitive nerve endings.It is impractical to use means that are positioned as regeneration stimulants.Microelements, vitamins, other biologically active substances are not capable of penetrating the surface of the skin in vertebral structures and restoring them.
Infusions or tincts for internal use have various therapeutic properties.Some of them may slow down or weaken the effect of pharmacological drugs.Therefore, the feasibility of using popular medicines should be discussed with a vertebrologist or neurologist.
Before applying the mixture for compresses or applications, you need to rub your small amount to the elbow curve.If an hour later on the skin does not appear redness, rash, a small rash, you can proceed to medical procedures.
Compress and applications
Physiotherapeutic procedures with ozockeita and paraffin can be performed at home.These natural hydrocarbons are approximately the same melting point, so they are often combined with each other.Paraffin and ozo -azochite are sold in pharmacies and are relatively cheap.They are mixed in a 1: 1 ratio and melted in a water bath and then cooled at a temperature of 40-45 ° C. A layer of a warm mixture is applied to the back of the neck with a wide brush or wooden spatula and solidification is waiting.Another layer is distributed at the top.In total, the procedure is repeated 4-5 times.The 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 fresh vertebrae, lubricated with honey, cabbage leaves, rabban, bardan, banana.But the best therapeutic effect has a compress with a sea salt solution.To prepare it in 200 ml of warm water, a tablespoon of large Ebloodstalline salt is diluted.Wet a large sterile napkin in the solution and apply to the neck until completely dried.
Grinding
For the preparation of friction, vodka or ethyl alcohol diluted with water in a proportion of 1: 1. It is better for people with sensitive skin insist on materials -vegetable prime in olive, sunflower or flaxseed oil.Most of the time, rubbing with various parts of the garden rabban - roots, flowers and arrows is used in cervical osteochondrosis therapy.They are cut into small pieces, placed in a opaque glass or ceramic container, stained and spilled with vodka or oil.They insist on a warm place where the sun's rays do not penetrate for 1-2 months, periodically trembling for better extraction of bioactive substances.Rub the trash 2 times a day at the back of the neck.
Instead of a rabban, you can use nettle, bardan, saber, banana.Folk healers recommend adding 3 drops of juniper, feet, pine trees, a tablespoon of a waiting for 0.5 liters of finished tincture.
Herbal Infusions
With cervical osteochondrosis, you need to drink many liquids - in the absence of against -indications up to 3 liters a day.This helps remove toxins, toxins, fabric decay products, harmful minerals of vertebral structures.The use of approximately 2 glasses of herbal infusions per day will also eliminate slow inflammatory processes, muscle cramps, relieve pain and rigidity of movements.For your preparation, thyme, chamomile, sage, Coltsfoot, nails, bear ears, corn stigmas are used.
How to prepare healing tea:
- Pour into a thermos into a teaspoon of dry vegetable materials;
- Pour 2 liters of boiling water insist on 2-3 hours;
- Cool, strain, take 0.5 cups 3-4 times a day after meals.
A decoction of birch sprouts will help improve well -to increase the volume of movements in the cervical region.2 tablespoons of materials are spilled with 2 cups of hot water and declined over low heat for 15 minutes.Cool, filter, take 100 ml three times daily during meals.
On the internet, there are usually recommendations on using a large number of gelatin dishes - jelly, jam, fishing floods, berries.Supposedly contained in food, the collagen provides the regeneration of destroyed cartilage.In fact, this chondroprotector is quickly broken into the gastrointestinal tract and removed from the body.This method of therapy not only does not accelerate the treatment of osteochondrosis, but also contributes to its progression due to a rapid increase in body weight.