In the cervical region osteochondrosis is a degenerative-dynis disease that affects the cartilage tissue of the intervertebral discs, provoking abnormal changes in the vertebrae.The need for hospital care only results in a sharp deterioration of well pain, which is usually provoked by preparing the spinal artery with an enthusiastic vertebra.
In most cases, the treatment of osteochondrosis is performed at home.The patient is presented by the course of chondroprotectors, massage and physiotherapy, and adherence to a good diet.However, the main method of treating the disease is daily medical physical education or gymnastics.Patients are also recommended for swimming, yoga, long walks in the fresh air.
Drug treatment
Medicines of various clinical and pharmacological groups are used in cervical osteochondrosis therapy.Non -steroid anti -inflammatory drugs, muscle relaxants, analgesics or injection solutions are used to eliminate acute pain in the neck and chest.The use of ointments and plasters helps to get rid of the discomfort of weak or moderate severity, including warming activities.
In the case of osteochondrosis of 1 or 2 degrees, chondroprotectors are included in therapeutic schemes.These are stimulants for intervertebral discs and regeneration of damaged ligaments, tendons and muscles.With the help of a long (3 months to several years), during the Chondroprotectors, the hyaline cartilage is partially restored and normalized the cervical spine.
The concentration of active ingredients in the area of injured tissues (glucosamine, chondroitin) is gradually increasing.Their analgesic, decongestant and anti -inflammatory acts will soon appear.Condroprotectors are not used to treat 3 degrees of osteochondrosis, as the devastating processes have affected almost all bindings.
| Clinical and pharmacological group of medicines used to treat cervical osteochondrosis | Pharmacological effect and therapeutic effect |
| No -steroid anti -inflammatory drugs | Alleviation of inflammatory processes, reducing the severity of pain and swelling, increasing the amount of movements |
| Vitamins B b | Normalization of skeletal muscles, restoration of excitement and recovery of mediators, regeneration of damaged nerves |
| Basics that improve blood supply | Improving the rheological properties of the nutrition of blood and injured nerve roots, stimulating blood circulation in the brain, eliminating headache and dizziness |
| Musorelaxants | Relaxation of skeletal muscles, offended nerve roots and blood vessels |
Medical physical education
Pharmacological preparations, heating compression, and massage treatment procedures do not help eliminate the symptoms of the cervix osteochondrosis and stops its progress.Only regular daily physiotherapy exercises slow down and then completely stop the destruction of cartilage tissues.The complex of exercises is compiled by a training therapy doctor, taking into account the patient's pathology and sports preparation.The first training sessions are also checked under his control and the patient is attended at home.
Cervical exercises for osteochondrosis.
Do not discomfort when performing exercises, including vertebrate nature, increasing blood pressure.The movements must be smooth with a small amplitude.Only in this way can blood circulation in the cervical spine be repaired and at the same time avoiding damaged intervertebral discs.Exercise therapeutic doctors generally include the following exercises in the treatment complex:
- Lie on your stomach, soothe your hands on the floor.Hold your back evenly, lift your head and top half of the body, keep this situation for a minute, then smooth smoothly.First, perform 3-4 times as the muscle corset will be strengthened from 10 to 10 times;
- Lie on your stomach, extend your hands along the body.Turn your head first, then in the other direction and tap the floor with your ear.Do exercises ten times right and left;
- Sit down on a chair or chair, deep breath and bend forward and try to touch the chest chin.Inhale, lean back, throw your head slightly.Repeat 15-20 times;
- Sit down, put your hand on your forehead.Try leaning forward at the same time, resisting your palms at the same time.Repeat the exercise 5-7 times;
- Sit down, put your palm on your knees.Smooth, slowly rotate your head first to the right and then to the left.Make 10 rotation together and then in the other direction.
It is strictly forbidden to train the cervix during the aggravation of osteochondrosis, as the nerve pincer or the spine artery is most likely to be pressed.Training should also be eliminated due to SARS, influenza and other infections that provoke the increase in temperature.
Massage
Treatment of cervical osteochondrosis for classic, vacuum, acupressure.Healing procedures contribute to the improvement of blood circulation and strengthening muscle linen, stabilizing vertebrae and intervertebral discs.At home, you can massage it 1-3 times a day in one of the following methods:
- Remove your hands behind your back with a squeezed soft towel and put an intense rubbing on the back of the neck.In the final stage of the massage, make more energy pipes with your palms;
- The procedure should begin with soft rubbing the skin and kneaded.Make some pat, spicy, cutting.Finger pads massage the skin for 10 minutes around the protruding vertebrae.Full massage with caress and rubbing.
You can buy special massagers in pharmacy or medical equipment - equipped with wood, ledges or electrical products.Such tools and tools facilitate home massage.Some models have a heating function and have many speed modes.
Applicants have proven themselves in the treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervix.Small carpets or rollers with lots of sharp spikes.When contact with the skin, the receptors in the subcutaneous tissue are irritated.Blood begins to add damaged discs and vertebrae, normalizing the tissue trophy.
Folk medicines
The main treatment of osteochondrosis, after achieving sustainable remission, spinal trologues allow the use of folk remedies, but only with proven clinical efficiency.The therapeutic effect of most compression or rubbing due to irritation of sensitive nerve endings consists of an increase in cervical temperature.It is not practical to use tools that are placed as regeneration stimulants.Micro -elements, vitamins, and other biologically active substances are unable to penetrate and restore them into the surface of the skin.
Infusions or tinctures for internal use have various therapeutic properties.Some can slow down or weaken the effects of pharmacological drugs.Therefore, the feasibility of the use of folk remedies should be discussed with a vertebologist or neurologist.
Before applying the mixture for compression or applications, you should rub a small amount in the bend of the elbow.If one hour later the skin does not appear on redness, rashes, small rash, you can continue your medical procedures.
Compression and applications
Ozokerite and paraffin physiotherapy procedures can be performed at home.These natural hydrocarbons have roughly the same melting point, so they are often combined with each other.Paraffin and ozokerite are sold in pharmacies and are relatively cheap.Mix them in a 1: 1 ratio and melt in a water bath and cool to 40-45 ° C.The layer of the warm mixture should be applied to the back of the neck with a wide brush or wooden spatula and the solidification is waiting.Another layer is divided on top.Overall, the procedure is repeated 4-5 times.The application time is 1-2 hours.
The most popular procedure for treating cervix -oseocondrosis is compression in folk medicine.Particularly popular for damaged discs and vertebrae, which are freshly greased with honey, cabbage leaves, horseradish, burdock, plantain.But the best therapeutic effect has compression with the solution of sea salt.To prepare for 200 ml of warm water, a tablespoon of large -blroodstall salt is diluted.Moisten a large sterile napkin in the solution and apply it to the neck until it dries completely.
Grinding
To produce rubbing, vodka or ethyl alcohol is used, which is diluted with water in 1: 1.It is better for people with sensitive skin to stick to the vegetable ingredients of olives, sunflower or linseed oil.Most often they rub with various parts of garden horseradish - roots, flowers and arrows are used in the therapy of osteocondrosis of the cervix.It is cut into small pieces, placed in an opaque glass or ceramic container, poured and poured with vodka or oil.They insist on a warm place where the sun's rays do not enter for 1-2 months, regularly trembling to better obtain bioactive materials.Rub the trash twice a day to the back of the neck.
Instead of horseradish, nettle, burdock, swordfish, plantain can be used.Folk healers recommend that you add 3 drops of juniper, pine, pine trees, a tablespoon of rubber -terpentine to 0.5 liters of finished tinctures.
Herbal infusions
Cervical osteochondrosis should drink plenty of fluids - 3 liters daily in the absence of contraindications.This promotes the removal of toxins, toxins, tissue decomposition products, and harmful mineral salts from the spinal structures.The use of about 2 glasses of herbal infusion a day also eliminates slow inflammatory procedures, muscle cramps, relieves pain and stiffness of movements.They use thyme, chamomile, sage, coltsfoot, nails, bear ears, corn stigmas.
How to cook tea:
- Pour into a thermos into a teaspoon of dry plant material;
- Pour 2 liters of boiling water, stick for 2-3 hours;
- Cool, stretch, take 0.5 cups 3-4 times a day after a meal.
The brew of birch buds promotes improvement in well -being to increase the movement of the cervix region.Pour 2 tablespoons of raw material with 2 cups of hot water and fall on low heat for 15 minutes.Cool, strain, and take 100 ml three times a day during a meal.
There are often recommendations on the use of a large number of food with gelatin - jelly, jelly, fishing flood, Berry Jelly.Collagen is said to provide regeneration of the destroyed cartilage in food.In fact, this chondroprotector is rapidly demolished in the stomach system and is removed from the body.Not only does this therapeutic method not accelerate the treatment of osteochondrosis, it also contributes to its progress due to rapid growth of body weight.