How to get rid of cervical osteocondrosis

Osteochondrosis in the cervical region is a degenerative-dystrophic disease that affects the cartilage tissue of the intervertebral discs provoking the pathological change in vertebrae. The need for hospitalization occurs only by worsening with a sharp deterioration of well -developed, which is usually provided by paving the spine with an enthusiastic vertebra.

In most cases, treatment of osteocondrosis is performed at home. The patient is shown the course of chondroprotectors, massage and physiotherapeutic procedures, compliance with a sparse diet. But the most important method of therapy for the disease is daily medical physical exercise or gymnastics. Patients are also recommended for swimming, yoga, long walks in the fresh air.

Symptoms of cervical osteocondrosis

For starters, let's remember the most common symptoms of osteocondrosis in the cervical region.

• Pain in the neck;
• Cramps of the neck muscles;
• headache;
• The crystal when turning or turning your neck.

In fact, there are many symptoms, and this fact again confirms the seriousness of this disease and the need for a quick response from the patient. In the future, the quality of life will only deteriorate.

Features of the stages of the disease and the symptoms

In the process of developing the disease, experts distinguish 4 phases:

• Phase I. At this step there is a shift in the intervertebral discs, a violation of their stability. In this case, a person may feel muscle tension in the affected area and slight tenderness. Due to weakly expressed symptoms, this step usually goes almost imperceptibly.
• Step II. The destruction of the fibrous ring begins, the distance between the vertebrae is reduced. Symptoms - Pain located at certain points and increasing during vipping or turning the head. Also at this point, increased fatigue may occur.
• Step III. The fibrous ring is completely destroyed, a hernia is formed. The spinal column is deformed, the pain becomes much stronger. To reduce discomfort, a person is forced to limit movements. Explicit signs are frequent dizziness, fatigue.
• Step IV. This step is characterized by the complete immobility of the damaged area of the spine. On a regular basis, the eradication of pain is possible, but subsequently it will necessarily return and intensify several times.

Diagnosis of the disease

To identify the cause of the pathology, the patient describes the doctor's unpleasant symptoms of his condition. After hearing the patient, the specialist sends him to one of the following research methods.

1. Radiography.  Currently, this diagnostic method is considered uninformative, especially in the last stages of the development of the disease.  
2. Ultrasound Duplex scan.  This method is used in cases where a specialist involves a violation of the blood flow in the arteries that gives the brain to food. The study shows the flow rate of blood and determines whether there are obstacles in its path.  
3. CT (computed tomography).  This method is more informative compared to radiography, since not only reveals the problem but also allows you to determine the presence and size of hernias, however, with difficulties.  
4. MRI (magnetic resonance image).  The most informative method of diagnosing osteochondrosis, which allows you to prepare bone structures, the presence of hernias and even the direction of their development.

Methods of treating osteocondrosis at home

Treatment of osteochondrosis of the cervical ridge must be complex. Originally, it is necessary to stop pain using ointments, gels, creams, home compresses. In this case, the daily self -mass, gymnastic exercises are also important in this case. In addition, you will need to change the lifestyle completely - to revise the nutrition, move more, visit the fresh air, etc.

With accurate compliance with the instructions, careful attitude to the advice of a doctor, the patient achieves good results in a short time. Home treatment is pursuing certain goals: to save the patient from pain; Improve the blood supply to the brain; normalize sleep; Remove anxiety and irritability; Stop numbness in the shoulder zone; Improve the innerving of cervical spine and nearby areas.

Therapeutic baths

Another effective way of folk treatment of osteocondrosis in the neck is the adoption of therapeutic baths. This procedure contributes to relaxation, reduces blood pressure, relaxing the spine. It is impossible to take baths with oncological pathologies, hypertension and heart disease. As main components, you can use branches of needles, chamomile, dry mustard, bear leaves. Good results are shown when adding chestnut boiling to the bath to the bath.

The following baths will help from osteochondrose in cervical department:

1. Dripidar. This method removes the inflammatory process, provides healing, recovery and absorbing actions. A procedure requires 20-50 ml of pure turpentine.
2. Needles. A good medicine for treating osteochondrosis of cervical vertebrae. The finished needle extract can be purchased at the pharmacy and add it to the bath.
3. Chamomile. 300 gr. Dry flowers of plants are poured with 5 liters of water. The mixture should be cooked for about 20 minutes and then insist on 20 minutes and filter. Take a chamomile bath for half an hour.

Therapeutic gymnastics for osteocondrosis of cervical spine

But it is the special therapeutic gymnastics that helps with cervical osteocondrosis. Checked on your own experience. If you want to defeat this unpleasant disease, there is simply no other way. Thanks to gymnastics, the muscles around the cervical spine around, leading to proper support for joints and vertebrae.

With regular implementation, positive changes are observed. The normal patency of blood vessels is restored, leading to the disappearance of pain, a general improvement in well -being, recovery of the brain's normal function and therefore the psyche. Those who want to get rid of all kinds of mental problems, such as panic attacks, depression, phobias should also not forget the bodily cause of their suffering. And cervical osteocondrosis is just one of this reason.

Gymnastics confirms the fact that for the normal function of the spine it is necessary to strengthen the muscles associated with it. There are dynamic gymnastics as well as static exercises. What exercises should be practiced depending on the severity, the traits of the disease. But as practice shows to achieve a positive effect, both types have to practice.

Dynamic exercises

Dynamic exercises for treating osteochondrosis of cervical spine are simple movements and rotation of the head. But this apparent simplicity contains the key to getting rid of cervical osteocondrosis. This practice of regular implementation helps to strengthen the muscles, restore cartilage tissue, that is, intervertebral disks. Without certain conditions that we will talk about a little below, the effect of practice will not only be insignificant, but can even simply be harmful.

1. Turn your head down and lower the chin to the chest. Lift your head and throw it back.
2. We tilt your head to the left, right. The ear leans to the shoulder with the same name.
3. Turn without slope to the right, to the left and hold the neck of the neck vertically. That is, we turn the head to the right and look right, also to the left.
4. The rotation of the head clockwise and counterclockwise. (This exercise is careful, not for everyone).

Often, a person simply cannot turn his throat, he says he is painful or not comfortable. Scripture, crackling is heard in the neck, as if sand is sanded there. But over time, "the sand is less", exercises are lighter and lighter, and after some time a person forgets that there were problems with the neck. Of course, this doesn't happen right away. Someone in a few weeks, months, for someone in six months, one year. Yes, there is no other way out. You need to perform exercises for a long time and regularly, only then will there be a positive effect over time. In order for the neck to restore time and naive to wait for quick results, there are no miracles. After removing the pain quickly with pills, you will not get rid of cervical osteocondrosis. To get rid of the disease you will have to work.

But by applying special conditions, you want to do exercises, they are not a burden for you. Exercises need to be performed slowly and connecting attention. Only in this case there will be a positive effect and you will not hurt yourself. You need to start with a dozen repetition in each direction and make it slow, carefully without pain and unpleasant sensations. It is important at this point not to be distracted by foreign thoughts, but to direct all attention to sensations in the body. The neck is relaxed, you feel her muscles, they are not tense. During movement you feel how the neck extends but does not collect. So you turn on attention and don't hurt your neck.

Under awareness, you just relax from everyday fuss, as your attention is distracted from fussy thoughts and is the sensations of the neck. In itself, attention is capable of miracles of healing. You have to perform exercises sitting on a chair, gradually adding one, two movements per day. Day that brings to approx. fifty in each direction. In some cases, when there is no pain, you can increase the pace. Also, remember that you do not need to paid all attention to the exercise. So you won't feel your throat and won't have a positive effect. In this case, the number of repetitions must be approximately.

It happens that, as a result of the exercise, you lost attention, violated the principle of caution, not -against your body and injured your neck. For example, remaining pain appeared. It is necessary to stop performing the complex until the pain passes, and also wait a few days to give the neck to recover. Only after that can you return to exercise again. Many people also do not recommend turning their heads. If you have strong and old osteocondrosis, it is better to exclude the last exercise.

Static exercises

As practice is successfully showing treating cervical osteochondrosis can also be static exercises and often help even better. People who perform them, even after a few weeks, months, six months, one year got rid of problems such as dizziness, headaches and mental disorders. Static load is the simplest way to strengthen the neck muscles without movements. In fact, often with major problems with cervical vertebrae, any movement leads to pain and further trauma. But if you can't move your throat, you can strengthen the muscles, passively using its weight, and it is done very simple. So what exercises are useful and effective. They are simple:

We lay down on your back, relax. We lift our heads and tear the back of the head from the floor with about a centimeter. We keep the head of the weight of the neck with the muscles of the neck until obvious fatigue. We only look up. We lower our heads. Typically, the first time exposure is a few seconds over time increases. In any case, time must be selected individually. We do the same by lying on the stomach. Hands together, in front, put your head on your hands. We tear our heads off the floor. We lower our heads. We do the same on the right side and on the left side. For starters, a repeat is enough over time, the exercise can be repeated up to 5 times.

It is also important to include awareness here. While holding our heads, we do not direct attention to the neck and imagine how it relaxes, even if the muscles are tense. This is very important. When we lower your head, do not hurry to perform the following repetition. Lie up for a few seconds, also relax your neck and imagine how comfortable energy spreads inside it. The exposure time is first small, a few seconds. Over time, it can rise to a minute and even more. To get rid of cervical osteocondrosis, static exercises are also used by sitting or standing when we rest our hand in the head and try to resist this cut with the muscles of the neck.

So to forget about cervical osteocondrosis and get rid of many unpleasant symptoms that significantly aggravate our lives, open the neck with dynamic exercises and strengthen the muscles of the neck with static. To do it regularly for some time. Don't forget at the same time easing the neck, attention to know the feeling of proportions. By training the neck muscles, we reduce the strain on sore intervertebral disks, improves blood flow, restores their normal work. It should also be remembered that exercises for cervical osteocondrosis are not only used for treatment but also for prevention.

Effective strength exercises

The well -known Dr. Bubnovsky, which successfully treats osteocondrosis, recommends with trouble in the spine of the cervix in the spine to perform such strength exercises that strengthen the neck muscles well, like push -ups on the bars and pull up on the horizontal beam. Personally, he says that someone who regularly pulls up the horizontal bar will not damage cervical osteocondrosis. Of course, strength exercises are not suitable for weakened, older, very ill people. But to get rid of cervical osteocondrosis as an additional method, such people can perform them at least in full force, not quite. If you do not have bars, put two chairs together or something else from furniture and train the neck muscles with small push-ups.

General information

A sedentary lifestyle characteristic for office workers and those who like to relax in front of the TV or behind the screen often cause osteocondrosis. The first signs of this disease can manifest at the age of 25, and if not treated, complications can lead to serious consequences.
In the article we will consider what is osteochondrosis of cervical spine, the main causes of this disease, its symptoms and stages, treatment methods and answering other questions that occur in patients with osteochondrosis.