Osteochondrosis of the cervical spine is a chronic disease. This definition suggests that, once a sick person is forced to constantly remember that they should adhere to certain life rules so as not to cause aggravation.
The human spine consists of three parts - cervical, thoracic and lumbar. But it is the cervical region that is the most vulnerable, because it is the least protected, and at the same time it is moving and experiencing enormous loads. And the reality of modern life has contributed to a way of life that is far from beneficial for the health of the spine. Finally, to be completely honest, we have to admit that every year humanity moves less and less. For most of us, work involves eight hours of sitting. So, while I am preparing this article, I am sitting at the computer, and you, reading it, are also sitting. And so, from day to day we sit in the office, we move by transport, at home all the work is done for us by household appliances, and we rest. From what? "Movement is life" is a well-known phrase. At the same time, we can say with a certain accuracy: movement is a healthy spine. Cervical osteochondrosis is getting younger. Today, it is no longer uncommon for a young man in his thirties to complain of neck pain. But pain is not the only symptom of the disease.
Symptoms
First, there is pain that occurs when moving the head, body, arms.
Severe headaches that cannot be relieved even after taking painkillers.
Along with the headache, indistinct multicolored spots or flashing "flies" may appear in front of the eyes.
Dizziness is also a common symptom of cervical osteochondrosis.
Chest pain. At the same time, it may seem like a pain in the heart. Here it is important not to confuse osteochondrosis and angina pectoris. With the latter, the pain from the heart will react in the left arm. The patient unconsciously has a sense of fear of death. Nothing similar happens with osteochondrosis.
Reasons
Surprisingly, doctors today admit that they cannot fully explain all the reasons that lead to the disease. But at the same time they list the main ones, from which it becomes clear that often a person is to blame for such a disease as cervical osteochondrosis.
For reasons beyond our control, we include inheritance and age. You must take note of this and do not forget about prevention if you are in danger, so as not to become a victim of the disease.
The second (before the first) reason is physical inactivity. Move, move and go! And then you will avoid such a disorder as cervical osteochondrosis.
Do you smoke? Drop it now! All diseases of smoking, including osteochondrosis.
Infectious diseases and intoxication of the body.
Spinal injuries.
Stress, constant anxiety, nervous situation at work and at home.
Hard physical work and work associated with constant hypothermia.
Excessive passion for strength sports.
Athletes who have retired from the sport are in danger.
Lovers of too tight shoes and women who can't imagine themselves without high heels.
Finally, lovers of unhealthy food who do not pay enough attention to their diet, sooner or later will feel neck pain.
Traditional treatment
After making an accurate diagnosis, your doctor will prescribe treatment to relieve pain and restore mobility. Anti-inflammatory drugs, antispasmodics and pain relievers are prescribed. In addition to medication, you will be prescribed physiotherapy. Massage is a very effective method for cervical osteochondrosis.
And depending on the degree of the disease - therapeutic exercises, acupuncture.
Gymnastics
You can do gymnastics on your own without leaving home or office. All exercises are performed sitting, repeated five times.
Exercise 1.Straighten your back, turn your head back. Bend your head to the right, trying to touch your ear with your shoulder. Then try to touch the ear with your left shoulder. Tilt your head smoothly without straining.
Exercise 2.Stretch your chin forward. Then very slowly turn your head left and right.
Exercise 3.Imagine that your palm is a wall. Put it on your forehead and try to push it through the "wall".
Exercise 4.Press the “wall” with the back of your head.
Exercise 5.Put your hands behind your head and close your fingers. Lean forward as far as possible, then lean back, leaning against the back of the chair.
These simple exercises will help you speed up your recovery and are an excellent preventative measure if you don’t stop exercising after your cervical spine regains mobility.
Rubbing
- Rubbing an infusion of wormwood into the cervical spine will help. For infusion, pour a tablespoon of dried wormwood into a thermos and pour three hundred ml of boiling water. After two hours of infusion strain, cool slightly and rub it into the affected area several times a day.
- Lilac tincture is used in many diseases, but is most often recommended for problems with the musculoskeletal system. It should be prepared in the spring, during the period of abundant lilac flowering, and stored as needed. Transfer one hundred grams of freshly picked lilac brushes to a glass jar and add one liter of good forty-degree vodka. Put the jar in a dark display case for a week and a half. Strain, pour the tincture into a clean bottle and use for daily rubbing.
- Garlic-based rubbing will ease the condition with osteochondrosis. Peel the garlic and fill two hundred grams of peeled mashed cloves with a bottle of vodka. Insist for a week in a dark closet. Shake the tincture every day. Strain to avoid burns during use and rub the painful areas with tincture.
- If you have an onion growing on your window sill - great! Tear off one leaf each night, rinse it, cut and rub the cervical vertebrae with the pulp of the plant. Go to bed immediately after the procedure. The pain should decrease almost immediately.
- Dissolve the mummy tablet in a little water and combine with a tablespoon of honey. In the evening, just before bed, massage the mixture into the skin above the cervical spine. Then apply a small amount of honey to the dressing cloth and attach to the back of the neck. Leave until morning.
- Prepare a mixture of iodine tincture and camphor alcohol - ten ml and three hundred ml of medical alcohol. Rub the medicinal mixture every night for a week.
Fat
- For the hop fat, take a tablespoon of softened butter as a base and mash it with a tablespoon of dry hop powder. Then apply a thin layer on the cervical spine, apply a waterproof material and a woolen bandage on top, hold it for thirty minutes to an hour.
- Crush the spruce needles and bay leaf into a powder. Pour one tablespoon of powder into two tablespoons of softened natural butter. Connect carefully. Then do the same as with hop fat.
- The following fat recipe is also based on butter. Take a tablespoon of dry powder as a filler: 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 egg whites from the three eggs and beat them, add to the prepared mixture and rub thoroughly. The ointment is recommended to be used in the evening, before bedtime. After application to the skin, a warm cloth should be tied around the neck.
- And at the end of the topic of fats, there is another butter-based product. Peel a medium garlic clove, about the same amount of butter and ginger root about the same size as the garlic. Chop the garlic and ginger and rub into the softened butter. Rub the ointment every night before bed and very soon the pain will stop bothering you.
Compresses
- Anesthetic dressing is prepared from an infusion of burdock. Chop the dried burdock leaves and add one tablespoon to two hundred ml of boiled water. After half an hour, drain, soak a dressing cloth in the infusion and apply it to the back of the neck. Cover with waterproof material and a warm cloth. Lie down for about twenty minutes. After removing the coating, insulate the application site.
- Prepare elderberry tincture that can be used for both compression and rubbing. Lightly mash one hundred and fifty grams of elderberries and fill with a bottle of high quality vodka. After a week of infusion, strain. Before applying the dressing, take fifty ml of tincture, dilute one hundred and fifty ml of clean warm water and moisten the dressing cloth for half an hour, warming it with a woolen bandage on top. If you use the tincture for grinding, it should not be diluted with water.
- You can leave the herbal compress overnight. Take an equal amount of dried dandelion root and burdock and St. John's wort. Grind and mix the raw materials. Pour one tablespoon of the collection with two hundred ml of hot water and, putting it on the stove, cook for five minutes. When cool, strain. Secure the broth-soaked cloth on the back of the neck with a warming bandage.
- It is very easy to treat osteochondrosis with horseradish. You don’t need to insist or cook. Tear off the fresh leaf, dip it in hot water and immediately attach it to the cervical spine with a warm cloth. Leave overnight. If you feel a burning sensation, don’t get upset, it should be that way.
- It will help treat fresh cheese, preferably homemade. Prepare a piece of compressed cloth, spread the layer evenly over it, lightly sprinkle it with vinegar and place it on the back of the neck, securing it with a warm bandage. Healers recommend keeping a curd compress all night.
- For the dressing, peel one small potato tuber and grate it. Add a spoonful of honey to the potato puree, stir. Spread the mixture on the lining fabric and fix it on the problematic area of the spine for one and a half to two hours.
- Prepare aloe and squeeze the juice - it will take fifty ml. Combine fresh aloe juice with 100 to fifty ml of vodka and 100 grams of honey. Apply evenly on the lining cloth and apply on the cervical spine for an hour.
- Refined kerosene is an excellent heating agent. You should soak a dressing cloth, apply it to the sore spot, then waterproof material and a warming bandage. The time of exposure to kerosene compress is not longer than one hour.
Oral
- Prepare a decoction of sunflower roots. Take the dried roots, grind it and measure out a full glass. Pour the roots with three liters of boiling water, put on the stove and cook for three minutes after boiling. Drink two hundred ml of chilled and strained soup three times a day, after breakfast, lunch and dinner for three days. If the root boiling time is increased to five minutes, you will get another effect - the removal of salt from the body. You will need to cook and drink the soup daily for thirty days. After about twenty days you will notice that the urine has become dark in color - this is normal - the process has begun. Continue taking until the color of the urine returns to normal.
- Infusion of garlic with lemon will restore mobility and remove pain. Wash three lemons and chop together with the peel. Peel and chop one hundred and fifty grams of garlic. Transfer everything to a glass jar and fill with a liter of boiled water. Once the infusion has cooled, it is ready for use. In the morning, immediately after waking up, take one hundred and twenty-five ml of infusion, after stirring it.
- A mixture of vegetable juices, honey with the addition of vodka gives an excellent healing effect. Since vodka is a good preservative, the mixture can be prepared for future use and stored in the refrigerator. First take the juice from the aloe leaves. Measure its volume and mix with the same amount of black radish juice. Add liquid honey (if it is thickened, heat it in a steam bath until it liquefies) in an amount equal to half the volume of aloe juice. Stir thoroughly and pour in the same amount of vodka. Stir again, pour into a clean glass jar. It is recommended to drink the medicine in the morning, after waking up, one spoon at a time.
- Chop the parsley root. Boil two tablespoons in two glasses of water for one hour. Chilled and strained broth, one tablespoon, should be taken twice a day - in the morning, on an empty stomach and in the evening, before bedtime.
- Parsley copes well with the removal of salt from the joints, so it is included in the collection of fifty grams of parsley, nettle leaves, chamomile flowers, hop cones and hundreds of 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 container and place in the refrigerator. It should be treated for a week and a half, taking twice a day - in the morning and in the evening one tablespoon.
- It is no less effective in osteochondrosis and celery. Take a piece of root weighing about three grams and after chopping, transfer it to a liter of boiling water. Insist on the night. Strain in the morning. Drink one tablespoon three times a day, before main meals.
- Folk healers have not neglected sesame seeds either, given its healing properties due to its rich mineral content. There is no need to cook or insist on it. Gently just eat one tablespoon of sesame twice a day and you will quickly make up for the lack of calcium and potassium in your body.
- To relieve pain from osteochondrosis three times a day pine bud syrup. In the spring, when the pine grows, pick the young buds, wash them and dry them. Then chop them finely and, after measuring the volume of the kidneys, add sugar twice. Stir thoroughly, transfer to a clean glass jar and refrigerate for fourteen days. After some time, the syrup should become brownish. Take a spoonful of syrup in your mouth, but do not swallow and suck it immediately, and then swallow. It is recommended to treat with pine syrup for three weeks.
- Folk healers have also adopted birch buds to fight osteochondrosis. Put one tablespoon of birch buds in a liter of boiled water, close the container with a lid and leave to cool completely. Strain and drink the infusion throughout the day, dividing it into four equal portions.
- Cranberry leaves contain substances that have anti-inflammatory properties. Pour three tablespoons of dry crushed cranberry leaves with two hundred and fifty ml of boiling water. After about two hours, strain and drink two scoops three times a day, regardless of meals.
- Rinse the Cinquefoil thoroughly together with the root, pluck finely and fill a three-liter jar to half its volume. Pour two bottles of good vodka, close the lid and leave in a dark cupboard for three weeks. Pour the strained tincture into a clean glass container. You must drink the tincture of sabelnika a quarter of an hour before each meal, one tablespoon, until the tincture is finished.
- Many people at home have a tincture on lilac flowers. If you don’t have it, prepare it and keep it on hand at all times - this is a great remedy for many joint disease problems. It is drunk before a meal, dripping thirty drops into a small amount of water. And it’s not hard to prepare. Lift the lilac color, rinse and place in a glass jar to the top. Pour enough vodka to completely cover the lilac. Leave to infuse for three weeks in a place out of sunlight.
- The healing properties of madness have been recognized by official medicine. It is part of pharmacological preparations that are recommended for many diseases. Osteochondrosis with insanity is easily treated. The dried root should be ground to a powdery state and eaten one gram three times a day with warm water. You can make an infusion of madness by taking a tablespoon of ground root, add them to two hundred and fifty ml of hot water. Send him to the steam room for ten minutes. Take one hundred ml in the morning and evening.
- Buy pine nuts, crush them and put them in a glass jar. Pour enough vodka so that it is about seven to eight inches above the nuts. Close and leave for seven days in the dark. Shake the walnuts in the vodka every day. Strain the tincture from the raw materials. Treat the tincture by taking one tablespoon in the morning, during lunch and in the evening.
- There is another version of the tincture of nuts. But they just need a shell. From the crushed nuts, crush two hundred grams of shells and pour two bottles of high-quality vodka into them. Strain after a month. Take two tablespoons of tincture on the shell thirty minutes before main meals.
- It is recommended to drink the decoction from the herbal collection in a glass in the morning and in the evening. It should be cooked every day. Fifty grams of chopped willow bark, forty grams of birch leaves and ten grams of buckthorn pour in half a liter of water. Bring to a boil and cook for ten minutes. After an hour, strain the soup and treat yourself to health.
Miscellaneous
- Salt wrap. Add a tablespoon of sea salt to a liter of water, put on the fire and bring to the boil. Remove from the stove and, if the salt does not dissolve, stir until dissolved. Wait until it cools to body temperature, dip a small hard towel in the water, gently squeeze and rub the painful areas with it. Repeat the rubbing for a week and a half every day.
- Traditional medicine suggests kneading oat or rye bran dough in hot water to remove inflammation and relieve pain, and roll it out according to the shape and size of the cervical spine and firm it in the problem area. Hold until cool.
- Squeeze horseradish juice, mix it with the same amount of vodka. Rub this mixture on the cervical spine every night. Healers claim that this medicine relieves pain very strongly.
- To relieve pain in osteochondrosis, fix the magnets on the cervical vertebrae for one hour. Any magnet will work, even the one taken out of the fridge.
- Just as magnets, copper coins or pure copper plates are impure. They should be fastened along the entire length of the cervical spine on both sides of the spine and left for up to eight hours. Most suitable - at night.
- In the old days, there were no special spine massagers, and people, feeling the need to affect the vertebrae, used long round sticks for this. You can take a shovel handle or something similar. Place the stick on the back of your shoulder and start rolling it up and down your vertebrae at least fifty times. Everyday "stick" massage will successfully replace modern massagers.
Prevention
To prevent worsening of cervical osteochondrosis, return to the beginning of this article and read the section entitled "Causes". Have you read? Do the opposite. By removing the causes and preventing situations that cause cervical osteochondrosis, you will save yourself from the disease.