The osteochondrosis of the thoracic column is a disease of the musculoskeletal system, whose treatment depends on the punctuality of the diagnosis.It is completely cured in the early stages, but it may be difficult to determine the source of the disease, since the patient at first does not suspect that the pain and discomfort that have arisen are associated with the damage to the spine: they do not disturb him much, and he is not in a hurry for the doctor.
Let's try to deal with the characteristic symptoms of osteochondrosis, the nature of its occurrence, the possibilities of treatment and prevention of the disease.
Osteochondrosis of the thoracic column
- The disease is characterized by distributing and degenerative changes in the thoracic column, which are associated with cellular metabolism disorders.
- In the intervertebral discs, the protuberance (thinning and cracking) occurs: the cause of the compression of the spinal cord, numbness of the extremities, paralysis.This is the stage of the disease when only a surgical operation will help.
- The task of patients and doctors to take measures on 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 area (Dorsago);
- Discomfort during movements, I don't want to move once again not to feel pain.
These are symptoms of bump: thinning, intervertebral disc cracks.The pain appears in the kidney area, the liver, the heart, the pancreas, the stomach.The pathologies of the thoracic region are manifested by intercostal neuralgia, transverse and renewed osteoarthritis and pectory and pectory osteoarthritis.A sigh or deep cough causes pain or sensation of compression or presence of a solid comma in the chest.
Often, the osteochondrosis of the column is characterized by syndromes:
- Vasomotor syndrome characteristic of neurological diseases.The patient feels a sudden redness, similar to climatic pain, of other organs, systems.
- Muscle syndrome-your muscle tissues near the disease approach.With an increase in physical activity, these areas swell.
- Neurodistrophic syndrome (Zuzhek disease) or tissue metabolism can also become a symptom of the disease.
The difference of other diseases
The difficulty of diagnosis and early detection of chest area osteochondrosis is that their symptoms are easy to confuse with others.
For example, pectalgia is not only a sign of breast osteochondrosis, but also myocardial infarction.
With the damage to the column, the symptoms of pectality occur with turns of the head, torso and lasts a lot of time, for more than two weeks.Nitroglycerin in this case is useless.For comparison: with coronary heart disease, the same pain continues a short period of time."Cardon" medications will help get rid of or significantly help relieve it.
Pain in the field of appendix, kidneys, stomach, intestines: symptoms of somatic diseases: appendicitis, nephritis, pyelonephritis, gastritis, stomach ulcers, colitis.During compression (pinch) of the spinal cord, the characteristic symptoms of these diseases are manifested.Pseudogiosis syndrome or a feeling of site, the severity in the chest differs from an angina, characteristic of patients with angina sinory.Such pains can be caused by the pathology of the chest, the cervical-toric, cervical parts, causing painful surrounding tissues: muscle and nervous.The pain with Pseudo -angose syndrome occurs with turns from the top of the body.
The symptoms of compression syndrome are signs of extramedular neoplasia of the spinal cord.
Due to the similarity of the osteochondrosis of the thoracic area of the spine with other diseases, the main thing is to accurately diagnose, for which complex measures are carried out.
Disease development
Let's decide what happens when osteochondrosis occurs:
- First, the album is modified: it is sophisticated, covered with cracks, deformed.At this stage, the disease does not appear symptomatically, and the patient feels nothing.
- Then there are pain associated with the irritation of the nerve endings that are in the fabrics next to the affected discs.In people with developed muscle mass, the risk of pathological processes is much smaller, since the muscles support the spine, such as a corset.The pain can be neurological, such as the numbness of the extremities, the appearance of chicken skin, the modifications of the internal organs of the chest.
In the first two stages, the disease cures.
- Next, inflammatory processes, hernias, osteoarthritis, subluxation of individual vertebrae can be developed.The most frequent are hernias in which the nucleus of the octopoose column, constantly supported by a fibrous ring.When the ring is destroyed, the nucleus crawls, causing acute pain, numbness, paralysis.
- In the fourth stage, there is a narrowing of the discs, an abnormal growth of bone tissue is possible.Then, the column protects from the dangerous compression of the spinal cord.
In severe cases, squeeze spinal cord syndrome due to protuberance can cause locked pain, a decrease in sensitivity (gipalgesia).
Disease development factors
The osteochondrosis of the thoracic column develops due to the insufficient supply of intervertebral discs with useful substances and humidity.The column discs differ from other body tissues, since no nutrient elements are supplied through the vessel network and feed on neighboring tissues.With a deficiency of liquids, nutrients, a phenomenon called bump is characterized by the shelf, refinement, cracking and destruction of intervertebral discs.
Degenerative changes appear for the following reasons:
- Hereditary, associated with underdevelopment and the pathology of blood circulation.
- Congenital, caused the appearance of weakness of the musculoskeletal system: rickets, kyphosis, scoliosis, prayer.
- Salt deposits next to the discs (osteophytes), publish a crunch in the probe of the spine.
- Violation of nutritional metabolism, microcirculation in tissues as a result of infectious injuries and diseases
People who are at risk:
- experience great physical activity;
- With an inadequate position, in which there are the same pathological consequences as after the lesions;
- have a sedentary job;
- Working by profession associated with a constant long -term extraction organism (drivers).
When to see a doctor?
With spine diseases to the doctor, you must go quickly.How to understand that the case is in the column?With osteochondrosis, it can be difficult to understand or not.In the early stages, pain does not feel.
Remember!If there are pain in the chest and back, whose exact source is difficult to determine, since it "fluttered" through the body: first it hurts next to each other, then alternately: shoulder, ribs, clavicle, in any sequence.This is usually a sign of damage to the thoracic column.
Is it possible to relieve pain before meeting a doctor?
So far there is no precise diagnosis, radical treatment methods are not used.The fact is that there are diseases in which, for example, thermal procedures are prohibited (with some types of tumors).With acute pain, analgesics are drunk and an ambulance call.In other cases, heavy loads are excluded by the sedative, find a convenient body position and avoid the effects of acute shock (jumps).On the first opportunity, they go to the doctor to confirm the diagnosis and prescribe treatment.
Diagnosis of spinal osteochondrosis in the chest area
Always perform an integral examination to eliminate diseases with similar symptoms.
Diagnostic methods include:
- anamnesis;
- Inspection and palpation;
- Computer tomography, which determines the exact diagnosis and clarifies the stage of disease development;
- Radiography as an alternative method of tomography, capable of revealing cracks on the discs and growths formed;
- Ultrasound, ECG, gastroscopy, fluorography, general tests that exclude diseases, similar to symptoms similar to osteochondrosis.
The more complete diagnosis, the more precise the diagnosis is.Together with the osteochondrosis, other pathologies of the column can be detected, this takes into account the doctor by diagnosing and rejecting treatment.
How to treat column osteochondrosis?
The medical treatment of osteochondrosis will lead to the complete cure of the patient if the diagnosis is performed in a timely manner.
- First, it is approached to relieve pain, for this purpose, medications are prescribed: analgesics, blocking of the pain with novocaine injections, for some time releasing the patient from unbearable pain;
- Physiylization with currents, laser, magnetopunctional devices;
- Agujafletherapy or acupuncture, who performs professional doctors;
- Therapeutic gymnastics under the supervision of a physiotherapist;
- Purpose of the condoprotectors;
- Surgical intervention is exchanged in severe cases, when other methods are useless.
Popular remedies
All popular methods to treat osteochondrosis are divided into pathogenetic and symptomatic.Pathogenetic: aimed at fighting the disease.These include:
- physiotherapeutic procedures;
- Massage starting with the study of weak points for 8-12 minutes, then time increases;The massage is shown only in the absence of acute pain;
- A diet, in which the patient rejects grapes and legumes, systematically accepts substances that contain natural chondroitin, a substance that helps strengthen intervertebral discs: jelly meat, broth and.etc., the use of vegetables and fruits that contribute to the cleaning of the body is shown;
- During the appearance of acute pain: salt heating, sand;
- acupuncture.
Symptomatic agents destined to relieve disease symptoms include external and internal phytherapy.
Disease prevention
To prevent osteochondrosis, in general, and the osteochondrosis of the thoracic area of the column, in particular, several conditions must be met:
- Sleep on hard surfaces and pillows with a slope of no more than 15 degrees, in relation to the mattress;
- Avoid exorbitant loads in the spine and professions, associated with a body of tremor;
- Observe the correct lifestyle;
- Regularly drink water, prevent dehydration;
- Pregnant women are registered in the early stages, use vitamins and elements that contribute to the correct development of the fetus;
- Rys prevention in a child, which is a prevention of disorders in the musculoskeletal system.
The osteochondrosis of the column is a disease that can be treated, especially in the early stages.In later, if it was not possible to overcome the disease, there is no reason to despair.The existing treatment methods are designed to significantly reduce the suffering of the patient.Early diagnosis, the execution of all doctor's recipes can completely save the patient from the exhausting ailment.