Cervical osteochondrosis is a common pathology associated with the destruction of the cartilage in the articulations of the cervical column.
The signs of cervical osteochondrosis manifest more frequently in the interval between 20 and 40 years, this disease explains the headaches in a third of the cases.If it does not prescribe the treatment on time, the disease will enter the advanced stage and, most likely, will cause an intervertebral disc or intervertebral protrusion.
An important problem is that due to the contradictory symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis, a diagnosis can be difficult.Some characteristics of the course of the disease, which will be discussed more thoroughly, 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 subsequent treatment.
Most of the time, acute cervical osteochondrosis develops when a person leads a sedentary lifestyle, and since at present, with the development of technology and science, there is a gradual transition of humanity of the mainly physical workforce to the intellectual (respectively, to a lifestyle sitting), it does not surprise that this disease is generalized today.
In addition, the signs of neck osteochondrosis will be examined in detail, as well as their differences with the symptoms that accompany this disease with other spine departments.
The causes of this disease are the salts in the cervical column during constant work on the computer or driving a car, metabolic disorders, inactive lifestyle and malnutrition.
The disease can also be caused by systemic lupus erythematosus, neck injuries, hypothermia, inheritance, hormonal disorders and rheumatism.
Symptoms of neck osteochondrosis and different groups of signs
Before moving on to a more detailed consideration of symptoms, it must become familiar with a certain set of general signs of the disease.
Then, the general symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis are expressed:
- The pains in the cervical and shoulder departments, in the hands and the back of the head, and the painful manifestations improve even with weak charges, during sneezing or cough attacks;
- pain and crunch on the neck when trying to turn the head;
- with numbness and tingling in the limbs, burning of the posterior area, near the shoulder blades and among them;
- Headaches that begin from the occipital region and extend to the crown and temples;
- dizziness and fainting with acute head turns;
- Weakness and fatigue, fast fatigue.
The remaining symptoms are expressed by pulling pain and noise in their ears, the patient does not listen well, his vision can decrease.
All these processes can occur in parallel with other clinical signs.
Taking into account traditional neck in the neck sometimes adjacent to symptoms that are not atypical for osteochondrosis that are not associated with this disease.For example, few will compare with the osteochondrosis of the weakness of the leg, elite pain or the vision of worsening, and the article aims to say that the symptoms of this disease are as accessible as possible.
To understand how the osteochondrosis of the neck is manifested, it is necessary to divide the syndromes of cervical osteochondrosis into three groups, which will depend on the participation in the pathology of the central nervous system.
The first group generally includes neurological characteristics considered as complications of the disease that arise due to the influence of pathological processes in 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.
Briefly, we can say this: the first group includes signs responsible for the sick manifestations, the second, for motor disorders, the third, for the pathological effects in the vessels.
The symptoms can manifest separately or in the combination of these groups, but generally one of them is dominant.
Signs that belong to the first group of the disease
What symptoms are pronounced with cervical osteochondrosis in this case?As stated, this group includes pain, which can manifest due to the defeat of the pathological process of the peripheral section of the nervous system.
The painful manifestations in the neck, the radicolite of the cervical region and the sides are also symptoms of this group, which is also characterized by chest pain, muscles and joints.
Neck pain is the first symptom of neck osteochondrosis, and manifests itself in almost all patients.Most of the time it begins in the morning and intensifies when a person turns, it causes laughter, cough, sneezing, an unsuccessful turn of the neck.The pain is usually drilled, stupid, sometimes triggered, located inside the neck, but occasionally extends to the shoulder region.
Such pains can occur periodically or last constantly, they are different in duration and resistance.
Sometimes, painful manifestations are acute, but they express themselves differently: the "current blow" can be felt, and at the same time someone feels a shot pain 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 the osteochondrosis of the neck, the patient takes certain poses: holds his head, bowing it forward and to the side, and is very difficult for him to turn with it during the bastards.
Frequent symptoms are noise phenomena, they can occur when they try to turn their heads, expressed by crunch and crepitants.This is what indicates the negligence of the disease.
Sometimes people believe that the disease is triggered by the incorrect position in a dream, hypothermia, acute head turns and neck load.
Factors and signs that accompany the symptoms of the first group
The factors listed above can really cause pain, but most often only aggravate the existing symptoms of the disease, they are not the main causes of the osteochondrosis of the cervical column.
The pain and cervical shots are not all the symptoms of this group, except for 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 it even passes to the shoulder belt and arms, causes tension in the muscles associated with nerve roots.Very often, they suffer in the sixth and seventh departments due to the squeak of the vertebrae.The pathology of the sixth department leads to pain in the forearm and thumb, the seventh to the painful manifestations on the middle finger.Rare for this disease, damage to the eighth department is loaded with pain spread in the little finger.
With lesions of the upper vertebrae and cervical discs, the occipital nerve is included in painful processes, which is loaded with new pains that are constant.Sometimes, these pains become stronger, and then the sensitivity of the neck is lost, you can even find a pain point that looks like a small seal.
Since the changes begin in the neck, due to the deteriorated blood supply, the cervical vegetative formations can suffer.The symptom is joined as burning pain, which is strengthened during physical and emotional stress or by changing climatic conditions.In addition, the color of the hands and hands changes, the swelling appears, the skin becomes pale and thin, cools.In addition, the disappearance of sensitivity to touch, or vice versa, its strengthening.Tachycardia joins, pain in the heart, students change.
Additional signs related to the first group
Neck osteochondrosis is also manifested by discomfort in the hands (this usually happens at night).This is called nightly diaries, the diagnosis is usually made after forty years whose lifestyle is associated with various physical activity.
The additional signs of the first group are the tingling and the numbness of the bones, the pain and the discomfort in the hands, and since the attacks occur more frequently at night, they alter a dream due to them.
The symptoms of this group reach its peak when strong degenerative changes in the neck and vertebrae occur, indicating the pathologies of the autonomic nervous system.This is due to the fact that vegetative nodes located too close to the spine are not sufficiently provided with blood.
This disease sometimes contributes to the appearance of crooked, since the frequent satellites of osteochondrosis are muscle cramps that occur during the slopes of the head and the rotation of the neck.At the same time, a person cannot turn their heads normally due to the increase in pain in the back of the head or shoulder stumps.
The pain in the fingers and the paleness of the skin binds if the vessels are tightened, the blood supply or the pulse in the radial artery is weakened.
Another complication is the peractatrite full of shoulder, which occurs due to a violation of the shoulder link and spatial sections with the central nervous system.As a result: Distrophic changes, over time they only increase.
The main problem is that such pathologies occur in secret for a long time, and the patient may not notice them.
The main symptoms are in joint pain without cause, which is manifested, as already noted, at night.They can feel painful places, and the kidnapping of the hands to the side causes acute pain.
Since the patient will try not to bother the limb to not experience pain once more, due to the inactivity in the joints, the effect of a "frozen shoulder" can be formed, and if the treatment does not start 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?
The symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis that occur due to spinal cord pathologies are symptoms of the second group.Symptoms can lead to compression produced by an octopoose core that falls from the disc due to its softening, or due to spinal cord injury.
Often, the weakness in the extremities joins such symptoms, it feels a small muscle tone in the hands, but, on the contrary, it increases in the legs, but it is not observed to lose weight.Sometimes grunts develop without muscles (usually occurs after forty years, less frequently after fifty -five, and almost never in youth).Similar complications are found in those who have an anamnesis of atherosclerosis or arrhythmias.
The spinal cord (with disk problems between the fifth and sixth vertebra) can support the change called myelopathy.Typically, this pathology occurs due to column or overwhelming injuries, which touched the shoulder muscles, but sometimes stress or alcohol poisoning can be the root cause.
There are also clinical manifestations that proceed without increasing temperature or loss of sensitivity, so a person stops feeling an annoying effect that can somehow in the skin of the neck, arms and chest.In addition, broken or sore pain can occur, the patient's hands are used.
The osteochondrosis of cervical vertebra is also characterized by the "semiconductor disorders syndrome" that occurs when the spinal cord parts are poorly provided with blood.As a result, when walking or standing, the legs are very tired.Sometimes, brushes are numb, occasionally, the feet may appear discomfort in them.Coordination is also possible, especially if the patient closes his eyes.
Despite the certain frequency of the manifestation of these signs, they will not deprive the patient with the opportunity to work, and a person can lead a normal lifestyle.
What signs belong to the third group of this disease?
The symptoms and signs of the third group are related to the brain manifestations of the disease that appear due to insufficient blood flow in the system, which is responsible for ensuring that blood in sufficient quantities and over time falls into the compartments of the spinal cord.This system is formed from the main ships such as the vertebral arteries.
What syndromes characterize this group of symptoms?
Hypothalamic syndrome in the osteochondrosis of the cervical column is most frequently found, its symptoms are the instability of mood, irritability and high fatigue, anxiety, resentment, sleep disorder (the patient does not fall asleep well, rises with the feeling that he did not sleep).In addition, the opportunity to concentrate is lost, the problems with memory begin and the discomfort is felt in everything.Occasionally, longing, 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 are reduced.
Fallen syndrome is characterized by fainting attacks without cause (sometimes with loss of consciousness, sometimes without it), the reason for this are vascular cramps.Consciousness returns almost immediately if the patient is lying down and lowering his head.After weakness, a feeling of breakdown may occur, headaches bind.
The signs of vestibular barrel syndrome at the beginning of the disease are dizziness, which appears due to insufficient blood supply, nausea and vomiting attacks, amazing when walking.
The symptoms of the cochlear barrel syndrome and noise in the ears, usually on one side, can decrease hearing, hollow hollow.In general, this syndrome deduces 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 pharyling minute syndrome, there is a feeling that there is a foreign object in the throat, other drying signs and itching in the throat, the voice becomes deaf, the larynx of the sorcerers and the pain occurs in it and in the throat.The patient gets tired during a conversation, he needs a vacation, in addition, it is difficult to swallow thick foods, esophagus spasms are observed.A short -term break can save these manifestations.
The symptoms of visual disorders are expressed through disorders: fog before the eyes, a decrease in vision.
What is the danger of the disease?
If not diagnosed an adequate treatment in time, when signs of osteochondrosis of the cervical column appear, then the ladulopathy can begin, in which the nerve roots are affected, and the patient loses mobility, but the greatest danger is to compress the spinal cord, which can cause death.
With the osteochondrosis of the neck, you can alter the most dangerous shape of this disease, brain circulation, due to which migraines, hypertension, vegetable dystonia, the pathology of cardiovascular and respiratory systems, vision problems, audition and coordination will begin.The running forms of the disease lead to the vertebral artery syndrome, which supplies blood from the oblong brain and the cerebellum, and if the artery is squeezed, then the ischemia of the brain or the spinal cord can begin, such manifestations can cause a spinal race.
Do not leave a disease as dangerous as cervical osteochondrosis without attention, since the consequences can affect the ability to work and lifestyle in general, and if the first symptoms appear, you should immediately seek help to a specialist.How to treat the osteochondrosis of the cervical column, the treating doctor decides after an exhaustive exam.