Pain in osteochondrosis

Pain in osteochondrosis is explained by severe mechanical irritation of the nerve endings, which pass from the spinal cord between the vertebrae, creating a peripheral nervous system. An extensive nervous system provides thermoregulation, controls motor and sensory functions, is responsible for coordination of movements and muscle tone. The slightest compression of the receptors with fragments of intervertebral discs or bone outgrowths developing due to osteochondrosis causes pain.

The mechanism of development of pain syndrome is as follows:

1. Intervertebral discs begin to deform,
2. The protrusion develops - the disk protrudes without tearing the fibrous ring,
3. Bone growths are formed - osteophytes,
4. The surrounding degenerative disk (or site) of vessels and nerve endings are compressed,
5. The pain syndrome develops, the nature of which can vary depending on the position of the body, the severity of the degenerative process.

Localization of osteochondrosis can be different, but in clinical practice the disease is diagnosed according to the following types:

• More than half of all patients suffer from lumbosacral osteochondrosis.
• More than a quarter of all patients suffer from cervical osteochondrosis.
• More than 10% of patients suffer from thoracic osteochondrosis.
• A rather rare type of disease is common osteochondrosis.

Pain for osteochondrosis are caused by defeat:

• Corpus - the bodies of the vertebra.
• Discus Intervertebralis - intervertebral discs.
• Ligamenta - ligamentous apparatus.
• Musculus - paravertebral muscles.

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What pains with osteochondrosis are most often found?

Patients with diagnosed osteochondrosis present typical complaints about chronic aching pains in the lower back or neck, they often join the sensation of numbness and tingling in the fingers or legs (paresthesia), a feeling of slurping in the joints. If the disease lasts a long time, pathological changes in motor roots are possible, stiffness, a decrease in tendon reflexes and even muscle atrophy appears. Signs characteristic of osteochondrosis and pain symptoms can be described as follows:

1. Chronic back pain.
2. Lomota and paresthesia of the extremities.
3. The pain changes the level of intensity when lifting weights, physical exertion, sharp turns, and even when sneezing.
4. Periodic muscle cramps are accompanied by pain.
5. Reducing the volume and activity of movements due to severe pain.

Pain for osteochondrosis depends on the localization and prevalence of the disease. If the nerve endings are included in the degenerative process, rooster syndrome develops, that is, radicular pain, when osteochondrosis is complicated by intervertebral hernia, spinal pains develop, which are considered the most acute, severe. Most often, the disease is accompanied by vegetative syndrome - cardialgies, stomach pain, in the right abdominal part of the abdomen. If you summarize all the numerous pain signs, then they can be systematized as follows:

1. Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine:
   • Pain in the upper shoulder.
   • Pain in the hand (or hands).
   • Headache.
   • The spinal artery syndrome - dizziness, “flies”, spots in front of the eyes, a feeling of noise in the head, pulsating pain in the head.
2. Osteochondrosis of the thoracic spinal column:
   • Pain in the heart.
   • Pain in the right or left hypochondrium.
   • The pain in the middle of the sternum, which patients describe as a “stake in the chest”.
   • Pain in the heart, radiating in the hand, under the shoulder blade.
3. Osteochondrosis of the lumbosacral department:
   • Low's pain, often radiating in the leg (in the legs), to the pelvic organs.
   • Shooting lower back pain.
   • Radicular pain (royshift syndrome).

Pain with cervical osteochondrosis

A typical manifestation of pain with cervical osteochondrosis is considered to be the syndrome of the vertebral artery, which is manifested by such symptoms:

• Migraine (cervical migraine) - the pain begins gradually, most often in the occipital region, spreads on one side of the head, capturing the eyes, forehead, ear. Vestibular disorders are possible - it seems to a person that he hears noise or ringing, his head is spinning, often nausea goes into vomiting. The pain can intensify with the slightest movement.
• The pharyngeal migraine is a symptom that is characterized by headache and difficulties in swallowing.
• Headache, accompanied by fainting during sudden movements or turns.
• Benching jumps, which are often diagnosed as a vegetative-vascular dystonia syndrome by hypertensive type. The syndrome is often accompanied by strong attacks of fear, panic.

Syndrome of compression of the spinal nerve endings - rooster syndrome:

• Severe pain in the cervical vertebrae, at first aching, pulling in nature, then it intensifies and causes headache.
• Pain in the back of the head and numbness of the upper cervical region (infringement of roots in the area of the first and second vertebra).
• Pain, a feeling of numbness in the ear area - squeezing the nervous spine in the area of the third vertebra.
• The feeling of an enlarged language, enlarged with eating, is an infringement of the third cervical spine.
• The pain in the right or left clavicle, the syndrome “Coma in the throat”, cardialgia - the infringement of the fourth nerve root.
• Difficulties with the movement of the hand - it is difficult to raise or take your hand to the side - damage to the fifth vertebra.
• Strong pain in the neck, giving out a shoulder blade, a hand and a thumb - an infringement of the sixth vertebra.
• The pain in the neck, radiating in the hand and index, less often the middle finger - degeneration of the seventh cervical vertebra and infringement of nerve roots.
• The pain that begins in the neck and gives his hands to the little finger - squeezing the eighth nerve roof.

Pain with cervical osteochondrosis can develop gradually, growing and spreading throughout the body. Often, pain is observed both in the right and left hand in combination with numbness of all the fingers of the hand.

Headaches for osteochondrosis

The cause of the headache in osteochondrosis is explained by the fact that the body tries to stop the degenerative process using muscle spasm, as a rule, in the cervical region. Spasming leads to impaired local circulation, tissue edema develops, nerve bundles are squeezed, provoking a pain symptom.

According to neurologists, the most common cause of the headaches caused by osteochondrosis is the muscle fascial syndrome (lower oblique muscle syndrome) of the cervical spine. With constant muscle tension, the lower oblique muscle of the head develops gradual compression of Arteria Vertebralis - the vertebral artery and a large occipital nerve. Blood supply of the brain is disturbed, blood pressure rises and pain appears.

Headaches for osteochondrosis are well studied and clinically manifested by the following signs:

• The pain is aching and then breaking in nature.
• The pain quickly spreads from the neck zone through the undercurrent fossa into the back of the head.
• The pain is constant, which distinguishes it from migraine attacks.
• The pain may be accompanied by vestibular disorders.
• The pain intensifies with static (not physical) stress - the preservation of a static posture.
• The pain may be accompanied by paresthesia - a sensation of tingling, "goosebumps" in the occipital region.
• The pain may increase, develop into the Slime syndrome.

Headache for cervical osteochondrosis

The vertebral artery syndrome is characteristic of the early stage of development of osteochondrosis. The headache for cervical osteochondrosis, as a rule, diffuse with severe localization in the cervical zone. Painful sensations pursue a person literally around the clock, intensifying in the morning. Vestibular disorders accompanying the headache are provoked by physical activity or sharp movements. If bone-fibrous growths are squeezed by a large section of the artery, the pain appears even with simple turns of the head. Steps (ataxia), a possible decrease in vision or hearing, nausea arises when a headache acquires a bursting in nature. Such symptoms are characteristic of hypertension, and indeed, when measuring blood pressure, its indicators are far from the norm. However, venous stagnation is not amenable to standard etiotropic treatment of hypertension, although a crisis state develops by all signs. The chronic change in vascular innervation due to the growth of osteophytes leads to a persistent increase in pressure, which is diagnosed-essential hypertension.

Osteochondrosis pain in the neck

The pain in the neck with osteochondrosis is most often associated with vertebral syndrome, less often with spinal syndromes or caused by osteochondrosis myelopathy.

Degenerative changes in the intervertebral discs in the cervical region provoke the following types of syndromes:

1. Cervalia - localized pain in the neck.
2. Reflex pain in the neck, giving in the hand - cervicobrachialgia.
3. The reflected pain in the neck and head is cervicocranialgia.
4. Radiculopathy (spine syndrome).
5. Cervical myelopathy.

The pain in the neck with osteochondrosis, called cervicagalia, is distinguished by a paroxysmal character. Gradually, the body adapts to pain attacks, the pain becomes chronic and not so intense. Acute cervicalgia is felt like shots, patients describe it as a shock. Pain is most often felt in the depths of the cervical muscles. The pain symptom is most intense in the morning, localized on one side and is always combined with stiffness, stiffness of the neck. Also, the pain in the neck with osteochondrosis is enhanced at stress, cough. A person is literally not able to turn his head aside. The attack of acute cervicalgia can last several weeks, chronic pain in the cervical region lasts years.

Eye pain in osteochondrosis

Orbital pain in osteochondrosis is associated with the syndrome of the vertebral artery, which is also classified as the posterior cervical syndrome or cervical migraine. The pain in the eyes with osteochondrosis always develops against the background of a headache. The painful sensations will “start” in the neck and are most often stupid, aching. Then the pain is transformed into pulsating, tightening and begins to radiate to one half of the head. Neurologists noticed a typical sign of such pain and called it “Relief of the helmet” - this is how patients describe and show the area of pain when they conduct the back of the head to the forehead with their hand. The pain really spreads in such a sequence, affecting the orbital regions. The pain in the eyes with osteochondrosis is localized behind the eyeball and is stupid, pulling in nature due to a persistent increase in retinal pressure. Retroorbital pains are most often one-sided, that is, one eye hurts. The side of radiating pain corresponds to the side of the general cervical-and-consuming syndrome. If the syndrome is recurrent, retroorbital pain can move from one eye to another. The pain in the eyes with osteochondrosis is always accompanied by one degree or another of visual impairment due to a violation of the normal blood supply to the eye apples and the formation of eye hypoxia.

Sore throat with osteochondrosis

The sore throat with osteochondrosis is most often explained by the syndrome of the vertebral artery.

Pressure on the basic artery deformed discs leads to reflex cramps of the artery itself and the muscle tissue surrounding it. The lumen of the artery is significantly reduced, blood supply is disturbed. A typical symptom of the vertebral artery is primarily headache, however, if pathological innervation lasts a long time, neuralgia of the lingering nerve may develop. The sore throat with osteochondrosis, the feeling of constant coma in the throat in clinical practice is called the pharyngeal migraine. Also, the symptom of paresthesia of the pharynx and tongue is known as Barre-Lieu syndrome. Glorious minced problems are manifested in the form of changes in sensitivity, numbness and pain in the sky, language, throat. Patients complain about the feeling of an extraneous, foreign body in the larynx, often jerk, experience difficulties with eating.

Pain for breast osteochondrosis

Osteochondrosis of the thoracic region is most often provoked by a static pose, when a person is driving a car, performs an office sedentary work. The irrational, uncomfortable pose, as well as the lateral curvature of the spine (scoliosis), of course, is not the only factors that activate the degeneration and deformation of the intervertebral discs, however, they create an additional load on the spinal column. Pain in breast osteochondrosis is different in intensity and are divided into two categories in the clinical sense:

1. Dorsago - sudden, acute pain, paroxysmal, intense. Such pains in breast osteochondrosis limit the mobility of the back and can provoke a strong difficulty in breathing.
2. Dorsalgia is a long, chronic pain in the zone of deforming vertebrae. The pain is not intense, often a person is able to endure it for a long time, in addition, Dorsalgia does not limit movement too much and does not affect general physical activity.

In addition to Dorsago and Dorsalgia, pain in breast osteochondrosis can radiate to the heart. This is due to the fact that in the sternum zone the spinal canal is very narrow and vulnerable for squeezing during protrusions or hernias. One of the most dangerous manifestations of infringement of nerve beams in this department is the compression of the spinal cord, since it provokes serious cardiological conditions, causes pathological changes in the liver, pancreas. Pain in the chest area caused by osteochondrosis are often similar to symptoms of other pathologies - angina pectoris, appendicitis, renal colic and even heart attack.

Heart pain with osteochondrosis

It should be noted that in recent years, studies of scientists have shown that cervical osteochondrosis is not such a rare cause of pain in the heart (about 10 - 28% of all cases of pain in the cardiac region to one degree or another are associated with osteochondrosis).

The appearance of such symptoms of osteochondrosis always causes anxiety of patients, and they make various “formidable” diagnoses: “heart defect”, “angina pectoris” and even “myocardial infarction”. Having diagnosed one of these diseases, patients often proceed to therapeutic methods gleaned from acquaintances or from medical popular science literature. And since therapeutic measures are not directed to the mechanisms that caused clinical manifestations, their result is unsuccessful.

In this regard, I would like to stop the reader's attention on explaining the features of symptoms (clinical manifestations) and mechanisms for the development of pain in the heart area due to cervical osteochondrosis.

Syndrome of heart pain with osteochondrosis is also called “reflex angina pectoris”, “autonomic cardialgia”, “discogenic (“ cervical ”) cardialgia. There are other names, but not the case is not important for the patient, but to know if the pain in the heart of the heart with heart pathology is related or they have the basis of their mechanisms due to painful processes in the spine, each person is very important.

If in the first case the patient may threaten a myocardial infarction, which, as you know, poses a threat to life, then in the second case this danger is excluded.

The clinical manifestations of cardialgia are very diverse. But the main feature is the appearance of constant pain in the heart. Pain can be attackedly intensified, but basically they are racks in nature - deep, pressing or drilling, are often accompanied by heartbeat. A feature of such heart pains is their unshakable severity. Often, the severity or feeling of heat in the heart, a sense of anxiety is noted. From taking validol and even nitroglycerin, such pain usually does not disappear.

In such patients, soreness of spinous processes of the lower cervical vertebrae occurs. They have the weakness of the little finger on the left hand, the strength of the muscles involved in flexion and extension, bringing and leding the main phalanx of the little finger is reduced. The pain intensifies when moving in the cervical spine and hands.

The electrocardiogram of deviations from the norm is not determined.

In addition to this species of pain, there may be another. This happens when pain impulses from the cervical region spread to the muscles of the front surface of the chest, which are innervated by the fifth, sixth and seventh cervical roots.

In this case, the pains are localized not only in the heart, but also in the entire upper left quadrant of the body: the chest, neck, hand, and sometimes even the face. The pain also continues for hours, and sometimes even days. At the same time, as at the first form of heart pain, there are no vascular disorders even at the height of the attack, validol and nitroglycerin of the attack are not stopped on the electrocardiogram of the changes characteristic of the NFARCT. As an example of the development of pseudo-system associated with osteochondrosis, the following clinical observation can be given.

Breast pain with osteochondrosis

The thoracic spine with osteochondrosis is very rare. One of the main causes of the development of breast osteochondrosis is the curvature of the spine (scoliosis). As a rule, all prerequisites for the development of breast osteochondrosis in the future are formed from the school bench. The thoracic hotel of the spine is the least mobile, so the signs and symptoms of thoracic osteochondrosis are very different from the symptoms of cervical or lumbar osteochondrosis. In most cases, the main difference between breast osteochondrosis is the lack of acute back pain (unlike cervical or lumbar osteochondrosis), and the presence of stupid, aching back pain.

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Symptoms and signs of thoracic osteochondrosis

The main symptoms and signs of breast osteochondrosis include:

• Pain in the chest. As a rule, chest pain in osteochondrosis is enhanced by movements and during breathing. In most cases, pain in breast osteochondrosis is encircling in nature.
• Numbness, a feeling of crawling goosebumps in the chest area.
• Pain in the heart, liver, stomach. Very often, thoracic osteochondrosis is disguised as other diseases (for example, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, peptic ulcer, gastritis).
• Impaired sexual function (impotence in men).

Hand in hand for osteochondrosis

The movements, sensations and coordination of the hands are controlled by the nerve endings-the shoulder plexus located in the area of the cervical-thoracic spinal column. The pain in the hand with osteochondrosis, more precisely in the fingers of the hands, can indicate the possible localization of dystrophic changes in the intervertebral discs:

• Pain, numbness or burning of the thumb indicates damage to the cervical vertebrates.
• Painful sensations, tingling in the little finger indicate possible damage to the vertebrae, localized in the upper thoracic spinal column or lower part of the cervical region (7th and 8th vertebra).
• Numbness or pain in the middle and ring finger may indicate deformation of the 7th cervical vertebra.

The pain of the hand with osteochondrosis can develop gradually - up to six months, starting with minor signs - aching sensations in the shoulder, edges of the hand, and stiffness of the fingers. Most often, one hand hurts, mainly at night, accompanied by persistent numbness. A painful symptom in the hand always corresponds to a certain point in the area of the shoulder blades, where there is an output of the break-up nerve. The pain in the shoulder grows, spreads to the neck, possibly down - to the elbow, then to the hand. The hand is limited in motion, persistent, sometimes very sharp, stitching pains appear.

Pain for lumbar osteochondrosis

If osteochondrosis develops in the lumbar region, the pain is almost inevitable, since there are many nerve endings in this zone. Pain for lumbar osteochondrosis is characterized by classic radicular syndrome. Clinically, the syndrome is manifested by vertebral symptoms - the statics and dynamics (volume) of movements change, severe pain also appears.

Pain for lumbar osteochondrosis is divided into acute, chronic or subacute.

Acute pain or background is called lumbago. This pain develops paroxysmal for several minutes, less often than hours. It provokes an acute lumbar pain with a sharp or awkward movement. The nature of the pain prickly, spreading deep into the tissue, is often accompanied by burning symptom or on the contrary, with numbness in the lower back, and increased sweating is possible. Lumbalgia can last from 3 to 7 days, as a rule, the primary attack takes place within one to two days, the subsequent ones can drag out for weeks. Subacute or chronic lumbalgia most often provokes severe hypothermia, drafts, and static load on the lumbar. A similar symptom develops gradually and is localized on one side of the lower back. The pain can intensify with inclinations, turns, and chronic lumbalgia lasts sometimes for months, accompanied by radiating pains in the buttock, sacrum or leg.

Low's pain with osteochondrosis

Low back pain with osteochondrosis is customary to be divided according to the vertebrogenic classification:

1. Reflex pain:
   • Lumbago - shelters, acute lower back pain, which is provoked by lifting weights, sharp movements, excessive physical activity, less often with a cough or even sneezing.
   • Lumbalgia is chronic, the average intensity is pain. It develops gradually after a monotonous physical activity, static posture, most often with constant seated work.
   • Lumbosicialgia is a diffuse lumbar pain, radiating in the most common one in one leg. This type of lumbar osteochondrosis is always combined with neurotrophic changes in muscle tissues, vegetative-vascular manifestations.
2. Rine syndromes are a discogenic (vertebrogenic) radicolite of the lumbosacral region, most often caused by deformation of the fifth or first spine.
3. Radicoliumenomas - radiculoichemia, when, in addition to nerve roots, radicolian veins and arteries are innervated.

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Leg pain in osteochondrosis

The pain in the leg with osteochondrosis most often occurs due to the functional blockade of the sacral and illegal joints, less often than the lumbar zone of the spinal column. The clinical picture, characteristic of damage to the lumbosacral department, is manifested in pains localized closer to the midline, the damaged upper lingering department is manifested by pain in the peritoneum. The blockade of the sacral and iliac joint is characterized by radiological pain in the leg - along the entire back surface, starting from the hip to the knee.

Also, the pain in the leg with osteochondrosis can be associated with the syndrome of the pear-shaped muscle, which is provoked by squeezing the sciatic nerve where it comes out of the pelvis. The rooser syndrome is manifested by stupid, aching pains over the entire surface of the leg, giving to the foot. Often, radicular pains cause numbness or an acute burning sensation in the foot.

If osteochondrosis has been developing for many years, the knee or hip joints are possible, which leads to pains characteristic of arthritis and arthrosis.

Abdominal pain with osteochondrosis

Abdominal pain in osteochondrosis is recorded in 10-15% of patients with this disease.

Clinical manifestations:

• The pain is localized, not diffuse.
• The pain is localized in the innervation zone of the deformed segment of the spinal cord.
• The pain most often does not spread deep into it, it is felt at the level of muscle tissue.
• The pain appears and intensifies when turning, moving the body.
• The pain appears with coughing, defecation due to changes in intra-abdominal pressure.
• The pain is most often unilateral and is associated with pain in the lumbar region or back.
• The pain, as a rule, is constant, aching, dull, intensifies when provocation with movements.
• The abdominal pain in osteochondrosis is accompanied by a restriction of movement in the back, constraint.

The pain in the abdominal region, caused by osteochondrosis, is explained by vegetative mechanisms and a viscemotor reaction provoked by neurodistrophic pathological changes in the muscle tissue of the abdomen.

Stomach pain with osteochondrosis

Almost all organs of the abdominal cavity are connected by nervous support with segments of the chest zone of the spinal column. It is for this reason that the deformation of the intervertebral discs in the sternum (breast osteochondrosis) is often the cause of pain in the digestive organs. The pain in the stomach for osteochondrosis is often qualified as gastroduodenitis. The fact is that the infringed vegetative part of the spinal spine provokes gradual changes in the internal organs: where infringement occurred, irritation or spasm, often paralysis of the nerve and discomfort in the form of pulling pain and even heartburn. Over time, the symptoms grow, the digestion process is disturbed, and a person turns to a gastroenterologist. Indeed, for some time the symptoms disappear, but the relapse is inevitable, and the pain in the stomach with osteochondrosis acquire a constant character. To distinguish the painful Sipmt, associated with the infringement of medium-breasted roots, from true gastric pathologies is simple: the pain is enhanced by sharp turns, active movements, especially with those where the thoracic spinal column participates in them.

Pain in the lower abdomen with osteochondrosis

Most often, pain in the lower abdomen with osteochondrosis is associated with deformation of the intervertebral discs in the lumbar, less often in the thoracic region. Thoracic osteochondrosis is characterized by periodically manifesting pains on the right in the lower abdominal region. The symptoms are similar to signs of inflammation of the appendix, in addition to the fact that there is no elevated temperature and symptom of Shchetkin-Blumberg on palpation. Also, pain in the abdomen with osteochondrosis can resemble a clinical picture of gastritis, colitis, in women - algomenor. There are literally all gastroenterological signs - heartburn, nausea, heaviness in the right hypochondrium of the piercing pains below, spasms, bloating, pain “under a spoon”. There may be constipation, accompanied by pulling pains in the lower abdomen. Such a pain syndrome is explained by the involvement in the pathologically impaired process of innervation of the chest and lumbar ganglia - accumulations of dendrites and axons of nerve cells. It is quite difficult to distinguish osteochondrosis pain from the symptoms of the digestive system disease. To avoid possible complications, it is better to consult a doctor.

Acute pain for osteochondrosis

Acute pain in osteochondrosis is most often associated with radicular syndrome. The compression of the roots is caused not only by bone growths, but also with hernias, when the core of the damaged disk squeezes the spinal roots, arteries. If osteochondrosis is not diagnosed and not treated, any physical activity provokes the leakage of the damaged core molecules through the cracks of the fibrous ring into the blood. The response to this pathological process is the production of the antibodies by the immune system, as a result of the zone of the deformed disk, inflammation with edema of nearby fiber develops. Edema adds a compression effect on the cerebrospinal spine, acute, severe pain appears.

Acute pain in osteochondrosis occurs episodically and can last many months, gradually transforming into chronic, less intense pains.

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Treatment of pain for osteochondrosis

Osteochondrosis is a multifactorial, chronic degenerative destruction of all elements of the spine- from discs to muscles and ligaments. Therefore, the treatment of pain in osteochondrosis can be quite long and stubborn. Therapeutic measures that help stop the process of deformation of the intervertebral discs are primarily aimed at solving such problems:

Reducing a pain symptom

1. The restoration of the destroyed elements of the spinal column and the maximum preservation of zones unnecessary degeneration.
2. Treatment of pain in osteochondrosis at the first stages of the development of the disease is most often carried out on an outpatient basis. In acute pain and total degeneration of discs and surrounding tissues, hospitalization is indicated.

The choice of treatment method depends on the nature, localization of pain and on the general condition of the patient. In the treatment of pain symptoms for osteochondrosis, the following methods are standardly used:

1. Drug treatment, including anesthesia (blockade).
2. With severe neuro-depths, surgical treatment is indicated.
3. Dry Explosion (auto-gravity therapy).

Physiotherapeutic procedures:

1. Acupuncture.
2. Vacuum procedures.
3. Magnetopuncture.
4. Electrical stimulation.
5. Manual therapy (sparing methods, postizometric relaxation).
6. Medical physical education.
7. Diet

How to relieve pain with osteochondrosis?

A natural and understandable way to relieve pain in osteochondrosis is the observance of bed rest. In uncomplicated cases, 3-5 days of complete rest and the application of external painkillers are enough to neutralize pain. Independent drug treatment for osteochondrosis should be minimal. How to relieve pain in osteochondrosis is best known to an experienced doctor who will not only help neutralize painful symptoms, but also prescribe a set of measures that restore the spine. If the visit to the doctor in the near future for some reason is impossible, and the pain is unbearable, such measures should be taken:

• Provide the immobility of the spine (reduce the load on the spinal column).
• Take a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug - any on the basis of diclofenac (diclobert, inclofen, alfen, orthophen). The drugs are taken 30-40 minutes after eating. It is possible to take the drugs of myelorelaxants - Movalis or Melox or drugs of the Ibuprofen group - Dolgit, Ibuprofen, Nurofen.
• Take a diuretic tool that helps to relieve swelling in places of infringement.
• Lubricate the pain zone with warming ointments - finalgon, anespol, Nikoflex.
• Apply an ointment containing anesthetics to the pain - lidocaine or novocaine.

How to relieve pain in osteochondrosis if it does not pass within a week? The answer is unequivocal - call a doctor to receive qualified assistance.

How to relieve pain in osteochondrosis?

The first thing a person suffering from pain is trying to do is find the most convenient position of the body. Indeed, the question “how to relieve pain in osteochondrosis” often has a simple answer - you need to take a comfortable pose that allows the maximum to relax the muscles of the neck, back and lower back. The pose can be absolutely any - on the back, on the stomach, on the side. If a person chooses a position lying on his back, it is advisable to bend his legs in his knees, putting a blanket from a blanket under them. The legs should lie on the elevation, without touching the feet of the bed. You can also put a small pillow under the lower back or raise the head.

It is necessary to observe bed rest for at least three days.

• Do not make sudden movements, turns.
• Apply an anesthetic or warming ointment to the pain site.
• Put on a sore zone, lost in ointment, a woolen dry compress.
• If the pain develops in the lower back - lower back, it should be bandaged with elastic material (fixed).
• Medical physical education is permissible only 5-7 days after neutralization of pain. Any exercises during a pain attack can aggravate the severity of the disease.
• During compliance with the bed regime, a gentle diet is shown - small portions, the exclusion of fried and sharp dishes, a diuretic drink is shown.

After the pain leaves, in order to avoid relapses, you must follow three simple rules:

1. Use the spine is reasonable and correct - to know how to lift weights, sit correctly, get up and so on.
2. A balanced full nutrition that includes products with glucosamine content helps restore the normal functioning of the spine.
3. The complex of physiotherapy exercises will not only strengthen the muscles, but also activate the mobility, flexibility of the spinal column.