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Chondrosis

Causes and symptoms of chondrosis


What is chondrosis?

Chondrosis is an insidious and up to the end not solved the disease. According to the definition adopted in the official medicine, pathology is accompanied by degeneration in areas of cartilage tissue in the bone. Very long time it was thought that back pain and limited mobility of the cervical vertebrae belong to the age changes, get rid of them is almost impossible, as impossible to turn back the clock. But modern medicine, in addition to exhaustion with age, cartilage and bone tissue, opened up new causes of pain in the spine and developed new techniques and methods for the treatment of chondrosis, allowing you to forget about the symptoms of this disease.


Causes of chondrosis

It was found that the development of the pathological process in the cervical chondrosis involved muscles. Short muscle fibers that join the vertebrae in patients suffering from this disease are severely strained, which contributes to the appearance of muscle.

The cause of the chondrosis, thus, is prolonged sitting in one place, a rare attitude in sedentary work, prolonged stress the same muscle groups. Hypertonicity of muscles can be caused by sleeping on an uncomfortable pillow for several nights in a row and even a cold shower, if the person accepts it without special training.

Also, the cause of the chondrosis may serve as the stress and emotional turmoil. Muscle clamps can be a result of chronic stress or fear, a reaction of an adult to the constantly evolving traumatic situation.

Chondrosis develops on the background of metabolic abnormalities, and vascular diseases. Risk factor are also overweight, high blood pressure, high concentration of sugar in the blood.


Symptoms of chondrosis

Symptoms of chondrosis is considered severe pain, restricting mobility, the unpleasant sensation of heaviness and tension in the lumbar region or cervical spine.

Pathology can manifest itself with pain in the muscles, as well as irradiiruet pain from internal organs. Thus, the cervical chondrosis may be accompanied by blurred vision, tinnitus, headaches and dizziness. In pathology of the thoracic spine appear difficulty breathing, pain in the heart area. Lumbar chondrosis sometimes manifested by disruption of the digestive tract and urogenital system.


Treatment of chondrosis

Treatment of chondrosis can be conservative and surgical. The goal of therapy is to eliminate pain, restore normal functioning of the spinal roots, stopping progressing of degenerative changes in the spine.

In some cases, patients operative intervention, most often it is used with the ineffectiveness of conservative treatment. The volume of treatment will depend on severity of the disease and its clinical manifestations.

Chondrosis in most cases requires a prolonged treatment time are determined primarily by the nature of the disease, age-related changes, therapy, and how carefully the patient follows the specialist's recommendations.

The active phase of conservative treatment lasts an average of one to 3 months, post-operative recovery period takes about a year.

In the initial phase of treatment, patients can mark strengthening of pain, this is due to the reaction of muscle fibers and other entities on the impact of the therapies that is unusual for the body.

Pain is removed within a relatively short period of time thanks to physical therapy, medication, physical therapy.

The success of treatment depends largely on the patients themselves, which require tenacity, will, perseverance, the desire to be healthy.

A full range of conservative treatment involves physiotherapy, physiotherapy, massage, manual therapy, traction of the spine, methods of acupuncture, treatment drugs.

Therapeutic exercise allows you to adjust and strengthen the muscles causing the decompression of the nerve roots, increase range of motion and allows you to form a correct stereotypes during motion, contributes to the formation of correct posture, makes ligament-muscular system more flexible and helps prevent complications.

The positive effect of exercise therapy is achieved by regular training using special equipment and execution of joint exercises. Special exercises improve the blood circulation in the muscle fibers, normalize metabolic processes and nutrition of the intervertebral discs, increase space between the vertebrae, forming a corset of muscles that reduce the load on the spine.

As a physiotherapeutic methods can be used with currents of low frequency, magnetic fields, ultrasound, laser, etc. These proceduresassigned to patients for pain relief, reduce inflammation, during rehabilitation after surgery. Physiotherapy helps to reduce the treatment time, increases the effectiveness of drug therapy.

Massage allows you to relieve tension in the muscles, relieve muscle pain, improves blood circulation, has a bracing effect.

Manual therapy relieves acute and chronic pain in the spine and joints, increases range of motion and corrects posture. A special branch of manual therapy – visceral therapy – helps to restore physiological mobility of the organs, improves blood circulation, lymph circulation, normalizes metabolism, increases the protective forces of the body that helps to avoid the exacerbation of chronic diseases.

The spine stretching or traction applied to relieve pain, increases space between the vertebrae, restoring physiological curvatures of the spine.

Reflexology in the background of other methods improves the efficiency of treatment, relieve pain, promotes normalization of sleep, balances the psyche, helps to fight overweight and bad habits.

Treatment with drugs is indicated for worsening of the disease with the aim of pain relief, reduce inflammation, stimulation of metabolic processes.

Despite the fact that each of the above methods is considered to be highly efficient by itself, persistent therapeutic effect can be achieved only through an integrated approach to the treatment of chondrosis with mandatory training on specialized equipment that allows to give the patient full muscle corset.