Osteochondrosis of thoracic spine is a disease of muscle-bone system, the success of treatment whose way depends on the timesty of the diagnosis.It is completely cured in the early stages, but it can be difficult to determine the source of the disease, because the patient does not doubt that the pain and discomfort formed is associated with the spine damage, not in a hurry.
Let's try to deal with the characteristic symptoms of osteochondrose, the nature of its phenomenon, the possibility of treatment and disease prevention.
Osteochondrosis of thoracic spine
- The disease is characterized by dystrophic and degenerative changes in thoracic spines, which are associated with the disorders of the metabolism cell.
- In the intervectors, the bulging and shooting occurs - the cause of the spinal cord compression, stiffness of limbs, paralysis.This is a stage of the disease when only the surgical operation will help.
- The task of patients and doctors to take measures at a timely diagnosis and proper treatment.
Symptoms of the disease
The first symptoms of osteochondrosis of the thoracic area of the spine:
- Back pain (Dorsalgia);
- Acute chest pain (Dorsago);
- Uneasiness during the movement I don't want to move once again so I don't feel pain.
These are all the symptoms of the protrusion - thinning, cracking of intervertebral discs.The pain appears in the area of the kidneys, the liver, hearts, pancreas, stomachs.The pathology of the thoracic region are manifested by intercostal neuralgia, transverse arthrosis and arthrosis of ribs and peppering.A deep sigh or cough causes a pain or feeling of compression or presence of a solid heavy tank in the chest.
Often osteochondrose spine is characterized by syndrome:
- Vasomotor syndrome characteristic of neurological diseases.The patient feels sudden redness, similar to climates, pain of other organs, systems.
- Muscular and tonic syndrome-pain in muscle tissues near the focus of the disease.In addition to increasing physical activity, these areas swell.
- Neurodisterophic syndrome (zuzhek disease) or tissue metabolism can also become a symptom of disease.
The difference from other diseases
Difficulty diagnosis and early detection of osteochondrose areas of the chest is that its symptoms are easy to confuse with others.
For example, pectalgia is not just a sign of osteochondrose breasts, but also myocardial infarction.
With the spine damage, the symptoms of the folks appear with head turns, torso and lasts long, longer than two weeks.Nitroglycerin in this case is useless.For comparison: With coronary diseases, the same pain continues a short period of time."Cardon" medications will help be resolved or significantly helping to release.
Pain in field Appendix, kidneys, stomach, intestines - Symptoms of somatic diseases: Appendicular, nephritis, pielonephritis, gastritis, stomach surfers, colitis.During the compression (rock) of the spinal cord, the symptoms are characterized by these diseases.Pseudo -anguin syndrome or feeling of squeezing, the severity in the chest differs from angina, characteristic of patients with angina pectoris.Such pain may be caused by the pathology of the chest, cervical-thoracic, cervical parts, causing painful processes of surrounding tissues: muscle and nervous.Pseudo pain -agious syndrome occurs with the turns of the upper body.
Symptoms compression syndrome are the signs of the outstanding neoplasms of spinal cord.
Due to the similarity of osteochondrosis of the thoracic area of the spine with other diseases, the main thing is precise diagnostication, for which complex measures are carried out.
Disease development
Let's find out what happens when osteochondrosis occurs:
- First of all, the disk has been changed: it is sophisticated, covered with cracks, deformed.At this stage, the disease does not seem symptomatic, and the patient does not feel anything.
- Then there are pain associated with irritation of nerve endings that are in tissues in addition to affected disks.In people with a developed muscle mass, the risk of pathological processes is much smaller, because the muscles support the spine, such as corsets.Pain can be neurologically, such as stiffness of limbs, look of goosebumps, modify the internal organs of the chest.
In the first two phases, the disease was cured.
- The following, inflammatory processes, hernia, arthrosis, subclusion of certain vertebrates can be developed.The most common are kileas in which the core of the pulposis is constantly supported by a fibrous ring.When the ring was destroyed, the core is pulled out, causing acute pain, numbness, paralysis.
- In the fourth phase, discs occur, an abnormal growth of bone tissue is possible.Thus, the spine protects against the dangerous compression of the spinal cord.
In severe cases, the syndrome of the squeezing the spinal cord due to the protrusion may cause an attachment to pain, reduction in sensitivity (gipalgesia).
Disease development factors
Osteochondrosis of thoracic spine is developed due to insufficient intervertebral discs with useful substances and moisture.Spine discs differ from other body tissues in which they do not deliver the nutritional elements through the navigation network and feed from neighboring tissues.With the lack of liquid, nutrients, the phenomenon called the shelves is characterized, the shooting and destruction of intervertebral discs are refined.
Degenerative changes have been expressed for the following reasons:
- Hereditary, associated with the underdeveloped and pathology of blood circulation.
- The congenital, caused the appearance of the weakness of the muscle-bone system: Rachy, Kiffoz, Scoliosis, prayers.
- Salt deposits next to the discs (osteofiti) publish a crumb at the time of the spine test.
- Breach of food metabolism, microcirculations in tissues as a result of injuries and infectious diseases
People who are at risk:
- experiences severe physical activity;
- With improper posture, in which the same pathological consequences is performed in time as after injuries;
- have a sitting work;
- Working with the profession associated with a constant long shaking organism (drivers).
When to see a doctor?
With spinal disease to the doctor, you have to go fast.How to realize that the case is in your spine?With osteochondrose, it can be difficult to understand or not immediately.In the first phases, the pain does not feel.
Remember!If in chest and back there are pain, the source is correct that is difficult to determine because "fluttering" through the body: first hurts each other, then alternating - shoulder, ribs, collar, in any row.It is the most common sign of damage to thoracic spine.
Is it possible to relieve pain before you meet a doctor?
So far, there is no accurate diagnosis, no radical treatment methods are used.The fact is that there are diseases in which, for example, thermal procedures are prohibited (with some types of tumors).With sharp pain, hospitals are drunk and ambulance.In other cases, heavy loads are excluded in a sedative, find a suitable body position and avoid sharp impact effects (jumps).The first occasion go to the doctor to confirm the diagnosis and prescribe treatment.
Diagnosis of osteochondrose spine in the chest area
Always spend a comprehensive review focused on removing diseases with similar symptoms.
Diagnostic methods include:
- anamnesis;
- Inspection and palpation;
- Computer tomography that determines the correct diagnosis and explains the disease development phase;
- Radiography as an alternative method of tomography, capable of discovering cracks on disks and formed growth;
- Ultrasound, ECG, gastroscopy, fluorography, general tests that exclude diseases, similar to the symptoms similar to osteochondrose.
More complete diagnosis, more accurate diagnosis.With osteochondrose, other spine pathologies can be detected, this takes into account the doctor when diagnosing and prescribing treatment.
How to treat a spine osteochondrosis?
Medical treatment of osteochondrose will lead to a complete treatment of patient if diagnosed is made in a timely manner.
- First of all, it is resolved by pain relief, for this purpose prescribes medicines - analgesics, blocking sources of pain with the injections of Novokaine, for a while freeing the patient from unbearable pain;
- Physium with currents, laser, magnetopuncture devices;
- Historical or acupuncture, who conduct professional doctors;
- Therapeutic gymnastics under the supervision of physiotherapists;
- Purpose of hondroprotects;
- The surgical intervention is exchanged in difficult cases, when other methods are useless.
National medications
All folking methods of osteochondrose treatment are divided into pathogenate and symptomatic.Pathogenetics - aimed at fighting diseases.They include:
- Physiotherapy procedures;
- Massage by starting the study of points points in 8-12 minutes, then the weather increases;The massage is shown only in the absence of acute pain;
- The diet in which the patient refuses grapes and legumes, systematically accepts substances that contain natural hondroitin, a substance that helps strengthen the intervertebral discs: Led meat, soup and.Etc.The use of vegetables and fruits that contribute to cleaning the body;
- During the occurrence of acute pain - warming salt, sand;
- Acupuncture.
Symptomatic agents focused on mitigation symptoms of disease include external and internal phytotherapy.
Disease prevention
To prevent osteochondrose, in general and osteochondrosis of the thoracic area of spine, especially, several conditions must be met:
- sleep on hard surfaces and on pillows with a decline in decaptions, compared to mattress;
- Avoid excessive burden on spine and occupation, associated with the body that tremble;
- Follow the true lifestyle;
- Drink water regularly, prevent dehydration;
- Pregnant women were registered in early phases, use vitamins and elements that contribute to the correct fetal development;
- Prevention of Railkeeck in the child, which is a prevention of disorders in the musculos and bone system.
Rain osteochondrosis is a disease that can be treated, especially in the first phases.In the next, if it was not possible to fully overcome the disease, there is no reason for despair.Existing treatment methods are designed to significantly reduce patient suffering.Early diagnosis, the execution of all doctor recipes can fully save the patient from the exhaustible disease.