Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine is a chronic disease. This definition suggests that once a person is sick, they will be forced to constantly remind themselves that they should adhere to certain rules of life in order not to provoke aggravation.
The human spine consists of three sections - the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. But it is the neck region that is most vulnerable, as it is the least protected, at the same time it is in constant motion and experiences colossal stresses. And the reality of modern life has made its contribution to the way of life, which is by no means beneficial for the health of the spine. To be completely honest, we have to admit that every year humanity moves less. For most of us, work means eight hours of sitting. As I prepare this article, I will be at the computer and so will you, who read it. And so we sit in the office from day to day, move around with the transport, at home we do all the work with household appliances and rest. About what? "Movement is life" is a well-known phrase. At the same time, we can say with a certain degree of accuracy: movement is a healthy spine. Cervical osteochondrosis is getting younger. Today it is not uncommon for a young man of thirty to complain of neck pain. However, pain is not the only symptom of the disease.
Symptoms
First, it is pain that occurs when moving the head, body and arms.
Severe headache that cannot be relieved even after taking painkillers.
Along with a headache, vague multicolored spots or blinking "flies" can appear in front of the eyes.
Dizziness is also a common symptom of cervical osteochondrosis.
chest pain. At the same time it seems that it is heartbreak. Here it is important not to confuse the diseases osteochondrosis and angina pectoris. In the latter, the heartache reacts in the left hand. The patient unconsciously has a feeling of fear of death. Nothing like this happens with osteochondrosis.
reasons
Surprisingly, doctors admit that today they cannot fully explain all the reasons that lead to the disease. At the same time, they list the most important, from which it can be seen that often a person himself is responsible for the fact that a disease such as cervical osteochondrosis happened to him.
For reasons beyond our control, we're including heredity and age. You need to take note of this and do not forget about prevention when you are at risk, so as not to become a victim of the disease.
The second (rather the first) reason is physical inactivity. Move, move and move! And then you avoid a nuisance like cervical osteochondrosis.
Do you smoke? Throw it right away! All diseases from smoking, including osteochondrosis.
Infectious diseases and poisoning of the body.
spinal injuries.
Stress, constant fear, nervous situation at work and at home.
Hard physical labor and work related to constant hypothermia.
Excessive passion for weight training.
Athletes who have withdrawn from sport are at risk.
Lovers of too tight shoes and women who cannot imagine without high heels.
And finally, junk food lovers who don't pay enough attention to their diet will sooner or later experience neck pain.
Traditional treatment
Once an accurate diagnosis has been made, your doctor will prescribe treatment to relieve pain and restore mobility. Anti-inflammatory drugs, anticonvulsants, and pain relievers are prescribed. In addition to drug treatment, you will necessarily be prescribed physical therapy. Massage is a very effective method for cervical osteochondrosis.And depending on the degree of illness - therapeutic exercises, acupuncture.
Gymnastics
You can do gymnastics by yourself without leaving your home or office. All exercises are performed while sitting and repeated five times.
Exercise 1.Straighten your back and take your head back. Bend your head to the right and try to touch your shoulder with your ear. Then try to touch your left shoulder with your ear. Tilt your head gently without exerting yourself.
Exercise 2.Stretch your chin forward. Then turn your head left and right very slowly.
Exercise 3.Imagine the palm of your hand is against a wall. Put it on your forehead and try to push through the "wall".
Exercise 4.Press the back of your head on the "wall".
Exercise 5.Put your hands behind your head and close your fingers. Lean forward as far as you can, then lean back and lean against the back of the chair.
These simple exercises will help you speed up your recovery and are a great preventative measure if you don't stop after regaining mobility in your cervical vertebrae.
Rubbing
- Rubbing a wormwood infusion into the cervical spine helps. For infusion, pour a spoonful of dry wormwood into a thermos and pour three hundred ml of boiling water. Strain after two hours of infusion, allow to cool slightly and rub into the affected area several times a day.
- Lilac tincture is used for many diseases, but most often it is recommended for problems with the musculoskeletal system. It should be prepared in the spring during the period of abundant flowering of the lilacs and stored until use. Transfer one hundred grams of freshly picked lilac brushes to a glass bowl and add a liter of good 40-degree vodka. Put the jar in a dark cupboard for a week and a half. Drain, pour the tincture into a clean bottle and use for daily rub.
- By rubbing on the basis of garlic, the condition with osteochondrosis is relieved. Peel the garlic and fill two hundred grams of peeled clove puree with a bottle of vodka. Insist in a dark closet for a week. Shake the tincture every day. Strain to avoid burns and rub tincture into the painful areas.
- If Indian onions grow on your windowsill - great! Every evening, tear off a leaf, rinse, cut off the cervical vertebrae and rub it with the pulp of the plant. Go to bed immediately after the procedure. The pain should subside almost immediately.
- Dissolve a mummy tablet in a little water and combine with a spoonful of honey. In the evening, just before going to bed, massage the mixture into the skin above the cervical vertebrae. Then apply a small amount of honey to the compress sheet and attach it to the neck. Leave it till morning.
- Prepare a mixture of iodine tincture and camphor alcohol - ten ml and three hundred ml of medicinal alcohol. Rub the healing mixture every night for a week.
Ointments
- For a hop ointment, use a spoonful of soft butter as a base and crush it with a spoon of powdered dry hop cones. Then apply a thin layer to the cervical spine, apply a waterproof material and wool bandage and hold for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.
- Crush the juniper needles and bay leaves into powder. Pour one spoonful of powder into two tablespoons of soft natural butter. Connect carefully. Next, do the same thing as you did with hop ointment.
- The following ointment recipe is also based on butter. Take a spoonful of dry powder as fillers: celandine, mint, calendula and hops. The method of preparation and use is the same as in the previous recipes.
- Prepare an ointment with equal amounts of camphor alcohol, vodka and mustard powder. Separate the whites from three eggs and beat them, add to the prepared mixture and rub thoroughly. It is recommended to use the ointment in the evening before going to bed. After applying it to the skin, a warm cloth should be tied around the neck.
- And at the end of the ointment topic there is a butter-based product. Peel a medium-sized clove of garlic, about the same piece of butter, and a root ginger, about the size of the garlic. Chop the garlic and ginger and rub in soft butter. Rub in the ointment every night before bed and soon the pain will no longer bother you.
Compressed
- Anesthetic compress is made from burdock infusion. Chop the leaves of the dry burdock and add a spoon to two hundred ml of boiled water. After half an hour, drain it, soak a compress sheet in the infusion and apply it to the neck. Cover with a waterproof material and a warm cloth. Lie down for about twenty minutes. After removing the compress, isolate the place of its application.
- Prepare an elderberry tincture that can be used both for compressing and for grating. Lightly mash one hundred and fifty grams of elderberries and fill with a bottle of high-quality vodka. Strain after a week of infusion. Before applying the compress, take fifty ml of tincture, dilute 150 ml of clean warm water and apply the cloth for the compress for half an hour, warming it over with a wool bandage. If you use the tincture for grinding, there is no need to dilute it with water.
- Leave on the herbal compress overnight. Take in equal parts dry dandelion and burdock roots and St. John's wort. Grind and mix the raw materials. Pour a spoonful of the collection into two hundred ml of hot water and boil on the stove for five minutes. Strain after cooling. Secure the cloth soaked in the broth at the nape of the neck with a warming bandage.
- It is very easy to treat osteochondrosis with horseradish. You don't have to insist or cook. Tear off a fresh sheet, immerse it in hot water and immediately attach it to the cervical spine with a warm cloth. Let stand overnight. If you experience a burning sensation, don't be alarmed, it should be.
- Helps treat cottage cheese, preferably homemade. Prepare a piece of compression fabric, spread the cottage cheese evenly over it, lightly sprinkle it with vinegar, place it on the nape of the neck and secure it with a warm bandage. Healers recommend keeping the curd compress all night.
- For a compress, peel and grate a small potato tuber. Add a spoonful of honey to the mashed potatoes, mix. Spread the mixture on the compression fabric and fix it on the problem area of the spine for an hour and a half to two hours.
- Prepare the aloe and squeeze the juice - it will take fifty ml. Combine fresh aloe juice with 100 to 50 ml of vodka and 100 grams of honey. Spread evenly on a compress sheet and apply to the cervical spine for an hour.
- Refined kerosene is an excellent heating medium. You should soak the compress sheet, apply it to the sore area, then a waterproof material and a warming bandage. The time for the kerosene compress to take effect is no more than an hour.
Oral
- Prepare a brew from the sunflower roots. Take dry roots, grind and measure out a full glass. Pour three liters of hot water over the roots, put them on the stove and, after boiling, cook for three minutes. Drink the cooled and strained broth three times a day two hundred ml after three days of breakfast, lunch and dinner. If the time to boil the roots is increased to five minutes, then when you ingest it, you will get another effect - the removal of salts from the body. You need to cook and drink the broth every day for 30 days. After about twenty days, you will notice that the urine is dark in color - this is normal - the process has started. Keep taking until the urine color returns to normal.
- The infusion of garlic with lemon restores mobility and eliminates pain. Rinse three lemons and chop them together with the peel. Peel and chop 150 g of garlic cloves. Put everything in a glass and fill with a liter of boiling water. After the infusion has cooled, it is ready to use. In the morning, immediately after waking up, take one hundred and twenty-five ml of the infusion after mixing them.
- A mixture of vegetable juices, honey and vodka results in an excellent healing effect. Since vodka is a good preservative, the mixture can be prepared for future use and stored in the refrigerator. First, get the juice from the aloe leaves. Measure the volume and mix it with the same amount of black radish juice. Add liquid honey (if thickened, heat it in a steam bath until liquefied) in an amount equal to half the volume of the aloe juice. Mix thoroughly and pour in the same amount of vodka. Stir again, pour into a clean glass. It is recommended to drink the product spoon by spoon in the morning after waking up.
- Chop the parsley root. Boil two spoons in two glasses of water for an hour. The cooled and strained broth, a spoon, should be taken twice a day - in the morning on an empty stomach and in the evening before going to bed.
- Parsley copes well with removing salts from the joints, so it was added to the collection of fifty grams each of parsley, nettle leaves, chamomile flowers, hop cones and one hundred grams of burdock. Grind the ingredients, pour two glasses of boiled water, close the dishes and leave for three days. Pour the strained infusion into a clean bowl and refrigerate. It should be treated for a week and a half and taken twice a day - one spoon in the morning and one evening.
- It is no less effective for osteochondrosis and celery. Take a piece of root weighing about three grams and, after grinding, put it in a liter of boiling water. Insist on night. Strain in the morning. You should drink a spoon three times a day before main meals.
- Folk healers have also not ignored sesame seeds due to their medicinal properties due to their rich mineral content. There is no need to brew or insist on it. Eating just a spoonful of sesame seeds twice a day is gentle and you will quickly make up for the lack of calcium and potassium in your body.
- For the relief of osteochondrosis pain, syrup made from pine buds three times a day. In the spring, when the pine has grown, pluck young buds, rinse and dry. Then chop finely and after measuring the kidney volume, add twice the sugar. Mix thoroughly, transfer to a clean glass and let stand in the refrigerator for a fortnight. After the allotted time, the syrup should turn brown. Put a spoonful of syrup in your mouth, but don't swallow it right away, suck on it and then swallow it. It is recommended to be treated with pine syrup for three weeks.
- Folk healers have also adopted birch buds in the fight against osteochondrosis. Put a spoonful of birch buds in a liter of boiled water, close the bowl with a lid and let cool completely. Strain and drink the infusion throughout the day and divide into four equal servings.
- Cranberry leaves contain substances that have anti-inflammatory effects. Pour two tablespoons of dry crushed cranberry leaf into 250 ml of boiling water. After about two hours, strain and drink two measuring spoons three times a day, regardless of meals.
- Thoroughly rinse the cinquefoil together with the root, tear it finely and fill a three-liter jar to half the volume. Pour two bottles of good vodka, close the lid and leave in a dark cupboard for three weeks. Pour the tincture into a clean glass container. You need to drink the tincture of Sabelnik with a spoon a quarter of an hour before each meal, until the tincture ends.
- Many people have tincture on purple flowers at home. If you don't have it, prepare it and keep it handy at all times - it's an excellent remedy for many joint disease problems. You drink it before meals and drip thirty drops in a small amount of water. And it's not difficult to prepare. Take a purple paint, rinse it, and put it on top of a glass. Pour enough vodka to completely cover the lilacs. Let it soak for three weeks in a place without sunlight.
- The medicinal properties of madder are recognized by official medicine. It is part of the pharmacological preparations recommended for many diseases. Osteochondrosis with madder is easy to treat. The dry root should be ground to a powdery state and eaten one gram with warm water three times a day. You can make an infusion of madder by taking a spoonful of ground roots and adding them to 250 ml of hot water. Send it in a steam room for ten minutes. Take 100 ml morning and evening.
- Buy pine nuts, crush them and put them in a jar. Pour in enough vodka so that it is about seven to eight inches above the nuts. Close and leave in the dark for seven days. Shake the nuts in the vodka every day. Strain the tincture from the raw materials. Treat with tincture, take a spoon morning, noon and evening.
- There is another version of the tincture of nuts. But they only need shell. Crush two hundred grams of mussels from smaller nuts and pour two bottles of high-quality vodka into them. Strain after a month. Take two tablespoons of tincture on mussels 30 minutes before main meals.
- It is recommended to drink a brew from the herb collection in a glass every morning and evening. It should be cooked every day. Pour fifty grams of crushed willow bark, forty grams of birch leaf and ten grams of sea buckthorn in half a liter of water. Bring to a boil and cook for ten minutes. After an hour, strain the broth and treat yourself to healthy.
Miscellaneous
- Salt compress. Put a spoonful of sea salt in a liter of water, set on fire and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and, if the salt has not dissolved, stir until it has dissolved. Wait for it to cool to body temperature, dip a small hard towel in the water, squeeze it lightly and rub it into the painful areas. Repeat rubbing every day for a week and a half.
- In traditional medicine, it is recommended to knead a dough made of oats or rye bran in hot water to remove inflammation and relieve pain, and fix it in the problem area by rolling it out according to the shape and size of the cervical spine. Keep until cool.
- Squeeze the juice out of the horseradish and mix it with the same amount of vodka. Use this mixture to rub your cervical spine every night. Healers assure that this remedy is a very powerful pain reliever.
- To relieve pain from osteochondrosis, attach the magnets to the cervical vertebrae for an hour. All magnets are sufficient, including those taken out of the refrigerator.
- Just like magnets, copper coins or plates made of pure copper have no impurities in the pain. They should be fastened the full length of the cervical spine on either side of the spine and left for up to eight hours. Most convenient - at night.
- There used to be no special massage devices for the spine, and people who felt the need to manipulate the vertebrae used long, round sticks for this. You can use a shovel handle or something similar. Place the stick on the back of your shoulders and roll it up and down at least fifty times. The daily "stick" massage will successfully replace modern massage devices.
Prevention
To prevent cervical osteochondrosis from getting worse, return to the beginning of this article and read the "Causes" section. Have you read it? Do the opposite. Eliminating the causes and preventing situations that provoke cervical osteochondrosis will save you from the disease.