What is osteochondrosis?

Osteochondrosis - The term who has visited hearing every person, but not everyone knows for the disease "hiding" under such a name. Therefore, in this article, we consider that it represents this pathology and what it happens.

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What is osteochondrosis?

The degenerative dystrophic disease of the spine, which affects the articular cartilage, is called osteochondrosis. When progressing, the disease applies to tendon and bone tissue. The root cause of pathology is called the improper distribution of the load on the spine. According to statistical data, 8 out of 10 people have osteochondrosis and suffer from pain and discomfort in the back. Many do not bind pain with pathology, writing them off on the uncomfortable position of the body when sitting, large physical exertion, an uncomfortable sofa. Depending on localization, the disease is divided into:

• cervical osteochondrosis - For it, headaches are characteristic of the occipital part and further extending to the average parietal area. There may also be a frequent dizziness and pain in the shoulder belt. Localization of pathology in the cervical region entails a blood flow violation to the brain, which can provoke a stroke;
• breast osteochondrosis - With this form of the disease, the main symptom is a pain symptom, which may be present constantly (new pain) or appear spontaneously (severe acute pain). Pouring sensations may be present both in the area of \u200b\u200bthe back and in the front of the chest wall. Such localization of pathology often becomes causes angina, heart failure, gastrointestinal diseases;
• ladant osteochondrosis - It is characterized by pain in the area of \u200b\u200bthe coccyx. Such pain may be acute and short-term or briefing a long period without stopping. In progression, there may be numbered by the lower extremities, the development of urolithiasis.

Also, medicine allocates four stages of development of pathology.

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What is osteochondrosis of the first stage?

The first stage practically does not have pronounced symptoms. The patient can feel painful syndrome with a long deposit in an uncomfortable posture or with an active charge. The disease flows sluggishly, so the first symptoms of "danger", usually do not attach attention. In the intervertebral disk there are pathological processes, dehydration occurs, which leads to the thinning of the height of the disk. The fibrous ring "will acquire" by microcracks, which are gradually increasing.

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What is Osteochondrosis of the Second Stage?

Discovered discs lead to a decrease in the distance between the vertebrae. It entails the sagging of vertebrates that cease to keep the ridge in anatomically correct position. The vertebra is increasingly scoring, falling out of the general range. Paints are growing, since the cartilage tissue is destroyed. Intervertebral slots are becoming less and less, which leads to the pinching of the nerve endings and squeezing blood vessels. Usually strong discomfort and back pain make a person go for help to medical schools.

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What is osteochondrosis of the third stage?

Fixed changes in the spine are observed. It can be disk protrusions, arthrosis, vertebral modes. Usually it leads to:

• scoliosis;
• kyphosis;
• lordoza;
• formed hump on his back.

The patient can feel stiffness, numbness, uncharacteristic tingles, which are permanent, constantly present pain in a certain part of the spine (at the localization site of osteochondrosis). If pathological changes in the back have already begun (curvature, drinking hump), then treatment significantly improves the state of the spine and, if possible, eliminates existing defects.

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What is osteochondrosis of the fourth stage?

At the fourth stage, irreversible changes in the spine occur. Since the deformed cartilage disk leads to the strong mobility of the vertebrae, the body launches the process of normalizing the work of the spine. At the edges of the disks affected by pathology, bone growths are formed, they are called osteophytes in medicine. Their location is not always correct, it entails the microtraums of the nervous root and damage to the edge of the neighboring disk.

Correct vertebral growths cease to be movable, fixing in a certain position. Such pathological processes lead to minimizing mobility and already visually noticeable changes in the deformed back. Such patients are recognized as disabled, and the quality of their life deteriorates significantly.