Symptoms and treatment of cervical bone necrosis

Osteochondrosis is a disease of our time. Sedentary lifestyle, often nervous stress does not go away without leaving a trace. Almost anyone can observe the symptoms of this disease. How to recognize an underlying illness and seek help promptly?

Osteochondrosis is a physiological process that every person encounters in life. The symptoms and treatments of fibroids of the cervix are diverse, so it becomes a disease only under certain conditions associated with certain factors. The disease is characterized by local changes in the bone tissue of the cervical spine, due to the appearance of a deficiency of calcium. Calcium becomes scarce, and tissue has a spongy structure, becomes brittle, fragile and carries the main function of the skeleton.

Symptoms of cervical bone necrosis

With cervical bone necrosis, the blood supply to the brain is disturbed. Consequently, almost all patients complain of similar symptoms:

• headache, dizziness, tinnitus;
• has pain in the shoulder, neck, or chest;
• individual parts of the body become paralyzed (hands, fingers);
• weak in arms and legs;
• psychological symptoms - mood swings, irritability;
• In difficult situations, vision and hearing loss.

The symptoms are so diverse and individual that it is very difficult to identify fibroids of the cervix based solely on patient complaints. Cervical spine pathology is diagnosed with MRI, computed tomography, X-ray. According to the results of the study, you can see changes in the spine. Only by looking at all complaints is cervical osteonecrosis diagnosed.

Depending on the location of the cervical bone tumor, symptoms and treatment may differ somewhat. From where exactly the change occurs and how it affects the central nervous system, bone necrosis can be divided into three main groups. These varieties have different symptoms and, therefore, different treatments.

1. First group. The peripheral nervous system suffers. Changes in the vertebrae directly affect the nerve ends (roots). Often referred to as cervical thoracic necrosis with lens syndrome, it has the most prominent symptoms:
• Pain from ankle to shoulder area.

• Choking syndrome in the neck, tachycardia, heart attack.
• The clattering noise, the noise, and the crackling of her neck. See what exercises to do to strengthen the necrotic neck muscles.
• Persistent pain in the back of the head.
• Due to impaired blood circulation, pale, cold hands, numbness of the fingers.
• Joint pain.

Such bone necrosis disease can cause scoliosis

2. The second group. The entire spinal cord is involved, the disease reveals itself in disruption of all its work. The symptoms are as follows:
• Reduces the muscle tone of the arms and legs. Legs are numb, fast tired, difficulty walking, caused by semiconductor disorder syndrome. Blood is not circulating well to the lateral columns of the spinal cord.
• Myelopathy develops in affected areas. Affects the dysfunction of the limbs.
• The third group. The brain's work is interrupted due to poor blood flow to the brain. Difference in the characteristic syndromes:
• Hypothalamic. A syndrome indicated by malfunctions of the hypothalamus. It leads to neurological symptoms. Patients often feel unreasonable tired, or irritable, mood swings. People with this syndrome complain of poor sleep, irritability, baseless fear, and anxiety. Among physiological changes: sweating, pallor, cold hands, high blood pressure.
• Water drop syndrome. With such cervical spinal disease, they often faint for unknown reasons. The cause is due to vasospasm.
• Vestibular body. The syndrome is characterized by frequent dizziness. The vestibular apparatus work is interrupted due to insufficient blood circulation. Sometimes a feeling of nausea causes vomiting.
• Body of the cochlea. Ringing bells, ringing in the ears are called this syndrome. Ear obstruction or hearing loss may occur. It is difficult to combine such symptoms with necrosis of the cervical spine, especially in order to specify the correct treatment.
• Pharyngeal-larynx. The syndrome is accompanied by a feeling of discomfort in the throat. May be difficult to swallow, voice becomes hoarse. Observe painful symptoms such as dryness, itching, and pain in the throat.

Characteristics of osteonecrosis with treatment of lens syndrome symptoms

Separately, you should consider the lens syndrome of the cervical spine, the symptoms of this syndrome need to be considered in more detail. Their manifestations are often confused with diseases not related to necrosis. Treatment did not work, the patient continued to feel pain, the condition was getting worse. An incorrect diagnosis is sometimes even worse than the disease itself. Not only is the indicated therapy helpful but also paralyzing perfectly healthy organs. The development of bone necrosis of the cervical spine causes the appearance of the so-called lens syndrome.

The main cause is compression of the nerves, especially their roots in a certain part of the spine (neck, chest, vertebrae).

This cervical syndrome is characterized by:

1. Pain when turning your neck or torso. Appears after a monotonous long body posture (sleep, long sitting) and a strong head turn.
2. Numbness and goosebumps in the occipital region.
3. Headache of different manifestations: tremor, sharp pain, short term, long term. This leads to dizziness, fainting, and nausea.
4. The muscles in the chin may sag a little.
5. When pain is frequent, the sound of the tongue decreases and speech defects appear.
6. Pain from neck to shoulder, forearm, hand. There are finger numbness, discomfort when lifting arms, pain in joints.

Usually, the lens syndrome of the cervical spine easily turns into thoracic syndrome. In cervical osteonecrosis with lens syndrome, acute, acute pain manifests itself in internal organs.

Here is the clinical image as follows:

• Pain in the collarbone, lower ribs, armpits. Numb in these regions.
• A stinging sensation in the stomach, intestines, hypotenic region. Often observing this syndrome, they misdiagnose diseases of the digestive tract.
• Numbness from the navel to the groin along the spine, causing heavy bowel and stomach.
• Dry throat.

Lenticular changes can cause myocardial syndrome - a violation in bone tissue that causes irritation of the roots of the chest or diaphragmatic muscle. Its appearance is signaled by: heart attack of varying duration, from throbbing pain to prolonged pain, tachycardia, difficulty breathing. These signs are exactly the same as symptoms of angina. And if you treat it correctly, the result will be zero. Furthermore, in patients with such a syndrome, the electrocardiogram remains normal and apart from the pain, no other signs of heart disease were observed. Therefore, drugs that have a coronary vasodilator effect are ineffective.

Treatment of cervical bone necrosis

Effective treatment is a complex therapy not only in exacerbations.

Medicines

• Pain syndrome is relieved by pain relievers and other pain relievers.
• For severe pain, anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed.
• A local anesthetic in the form of a warming ointment and gel will be very helpful.
• If you observe muscle spasm, take a muscle relaxant.
• Prescribe drugs that improve cerebral circulation in cervical necrosis.
• Also in medical practice, analgesic blockade is also used.
• Prescribe anticonvulsants if needed.
• In the case of psychological disorders, antidepressants, sedatives, insomnia medications are very useful.

In addition to drug treatments, the following ways have quite a positive effect:

• massage,
• medical gymnastics;
• electrophoresis;
• is ​​wearing a bandage.

Spine treatments - surgical removal of a hernia and other defects of the spine.