In the complex therapy of cervical chondrosis (osteochondrosis), injection solutions, ointments, creams, tablets and dragees are used.Preparations deal well with pain, edema, inflammation, sensitivity, dizziness, blood pressure.
Characteristics characteristics of the disease
The course of cervical osteochondrosis is accompanied by slow and irreversible destruction of intervertebral discs.Private shock absorbent cartilage, bone vertebrae also begin to deform. At the reception of a vertebrologist or neurologist, patients complain of acute or painful pain, rigidity, dizziness with a marked increase;Therefore, the therapeutic schemes consist of medicines with various properties:
- external funds with more important local action, regenerating and heating;
- preparations that provide complete brain nutrition;
- Condroprotectors of release of disc restoration processes;
- Local and system painkillers.
The pathology is not yet fully healed.Doctors' efforts aim to eliminate painful symptoms, inhibition of disease spread to another spine.For this, complex therapeutic schemes using medications from various groups are compiled.
Signs of Cervical Condrosis
In the early stages of disease development, symptoms in women and men are practically absent.Occasionally, a person is disturbed by weak and uncomfortable sensations at night.He attributes them to fatigue after a business day, so that he will not go to the doctor.And right now, their intervertebral discs are gradually destroyed.The vertebrae with the formation of bone growths are deformed, squeezing the vertebral artery.About a year later, painful sensations are replaced by pain, intensifying with rotating or tilting the head. Condrosis also manifests by such symptoms:
- by clicking, cracking in the neck;
- Limit the volume of movements;
- Heels in blood pressure;
- Quick heartbeat;
- unilateral pulsing headaches;
- hearing and hearing disorders;
- dizziness, agitation of march, sensations of imaginary rotation of objects;
- Nausea attacks, rarely ending vomiting.
Due to the hunger of oxygen in the brain, sleep is upset, weakness, apathy, fatigue and touch in the ears occur.The psycho -emotional state of a person deteriorates -becomes nervous, concerned with insignificant.
The principles of drug treatment
Manual therapists, professional masseurs, physiotherapists and exercise doctors are involved in the treatment of cervical chondrosis.In the final phase, the use of folkloric medicines is allowed.But the main role in complex therapy is attributed to pharmacological drugs. All forms of dosage are on demand:
- Injection solutions are used to exacerbates condrosis to quickly eliminate their painful symptoms;
- Tablets, capsules and dragees are prescribed during remissions to prevent disk destruction, removing weak or moderate pain, circulatory restoration;
- Ointments ointments, gels, balms, creams are the safest, deal quickly with stiffness, unpleasant crispness.
It is rare to treat osteochondrosis with any medicine.Therapeutic schemes usually include at least 5 funds with various pharmacological properties.They are combined, it is convenient to use them at home.
Anti -Inflammatory drugs non -esteroids (NSAIDs)
NSAIDs are more often than other medicines in the treatment of cervical condrosis.They are shown in acute, penetrating or remote and stupid pain.The mechanism of action of non -esteroid anti -inflammatory drugs is based on the ability to inhibit the enzymes responsible for the production of neurotransmitters. All NSAIDs have a comprehensive effect on the human body:
- eliminate pain;
- eliminate crushing, clicking that occur during the neck curves;
- Stop the flow of clear, subacute and chronic inflammatory processes that affect soft tissues;
- Encourage a decrease in swelling that violates sensitive nerve ending;
- Increase the volume of movements in damaged cervical vertebrae.
In the treatment of chondrosis, drugs in the form of solutions for parenteral administration proved well.Of the tablets, the goal is practiced.Prolonged use of NSAIDs leads to damage to gastric mucous membranes.Simultaneous ingestion of the proton pump will help to avoid this. Medicines reduce the production of aggressive gastric juice with parietal cells, which increases under the influence of NSAIDs.
Synthetic hormones
Glycocorticosteroids are synthetic hormones that produce the adrenal cortex.This is a "severe artillery" of the drug treatment of cervical osteochondrosis.As natural hormones, glucocosteroids quickly interrupt inflammation, swelling, almost instantly eliminate pain.They are used in the form of intramuscular administration solutions.But with acute pain, its administration is possible directly in the destroyed intervertebral disc area. The therapy of the aggravated pathology is performed by hormonal drugs.An injection is sufficient so that the painful sensations do not appear in 3-5 days.Glycocorticosteroids are prescribed for patients with osteochondrosis with the ineffectiveness of NSAIDs.It's all about a wide list of your possible side effects.The very frequent use of hormones leads to damage to muscles, bones, devices of the tendon.Hormonal agents are prohibited from using a child during lactation, adolescence and childhood.All glucocosteroids have many against -indications.In clinical practice of canceling cases of serious damage to the liver, kidneys, stomach after prolonged hormone therapy.They are not used in the presence of liver cirrhosis, peptic ulcer, renal failure, osteoporosis.
CondoProtective Medicines
Everything means that they are used in the complex treatment of chondrosis only eliminate their symptoms, temporarily improving the human well.The only exception is the chondroprotectors.These medications include ingredients that can launch intervertebral disc restoration destroyed by cartilage.The neck ceases to hurt after its use disappears not for several hours, but forever.In pharmacies, chondroprotectors are presented in a wide range.They are capsules, substances for the preparation of injection, powders, packaged in packages.The most famous chondroprotectors with proven therapeutic efficacy are on demand.
It means improving microcirculation
A drug sought to improve blood circulation with cervical osteochondrosis -Nikotinata.These medications are used to treat high severity pathology, when not only discs, but also bone vertebrae are deformed.The compression of the vertebral artery is manifested by cervicocracy.This is the name of a whole complex of symptoms of violation of the vertebral artery: headache, “flies” before the eyes, temporary vision view, sweating, heartbeat.Improve microcirculation by eliminating “vertebral artery syndrome” helps tioctic acid.It is part of the solutions produced in the form of solutions for parenteral administration.The disadvantage of such drugs is an indistinct effect as they accelerate blood movement throughout the body, which is not always appropriate.Therefore, the list of its contrasts includes epilepsy, hyperthyroidism, peptic ulcer.
Drugs with vitamins B
The treatment of cervical osteochondrosis at the stage of exacerbation is nonetheless to use medicines, whose composition is formed from group B vitamins. The fact is that acute bone growths of vertebrae not only the vertebral artery.They press sensitive nerve roots, disturbing interaction.Nerve pulses enter the central nervous system with a delay, their response reactions are inhibited.Innovation violation leads to paresthesia - loss of sensitivity to certain parts of the body.In the drug treatment of cervical chondrosis, drugs whose activity is determined by pyridoxine, thiamine, B12 I proved well.Many of them are produced in the form of intramuscular administration solutions.Contains vitamins B and anesthetic.Therefore, after injection, the pain disappears instantly, the volume of movements in the zone of cervical vertebrae is restored.At the same time, the product improves blood flow, the work of nerve, muscle and cardiovascular systems, interrupts inflammation, nerve degeneration.There are against -indications for its use.These are periods of pregnancy and breastfeeding, hypersensitivity to ingredients.
The best muscle relaxants
The elimination of weak symptoms of cervical osteochondrosis and the treatment of the house of its exacerbations is usually difficult for muscle spasms.The nerve spine is squeezed with displaced intervertebral discs, inflammatory edema.There is a strong pain syndrome that the body is trying to eliminate muscle spasm.Thanks to this peculiar protective reaction, human mobility is limited, uncomfortable sensations disappear.But often an increase in skeletal muscles tone causes even greater pressure on nerve endings. The pain so intense seems that you can deal with it only with the help of muscle relaxants.Muselaxantes are combined with all medications for the drug treatment of condrosis, including glucocorticosteroids.They are well tolerated by the body, but some may cause dependence and "cancellation syndrome".Therefore, they are not intended for prolonged therapy.The duration of the treatment rate does not exceed one week.
Drugs that improve the psycho -emotional state
Of all the chondrosis, it is the cervical particular that impresses the psycho -emotional state of a person.It is about infringing the bone growth of the vertebral artery, which leads to the hypoxia of the brain. The patient suffers from the symptoms of the atypical musculoskeletal system for pathologies:
- Panic attacks;
- Depression, neurosis;
- visual and auditory disorders;
- Dry unproductive cough;
- shortness of breathe;
- Anxiety, apathy, fatigue;
- various sleep disorders.
It is not necessary to do when they appear - use drugs for cough, eye or ear drops.To eliminate symptoms, it is often obtained by a receiving course with a soft soft effect.
Balanced vitamin complexes
Most vitamins, micro and macro irreplaceable elements enters the human body along with food.But foods may not always provide a physiological necessity or inadequate assimilation, distribution.For example, with characteristic circulatory disorders of cervical osteochondrosis.There is a deficiency of bioactive substances that negatively affect the work of all life systems.To quickly compensate for the body's daily needs in vitamins, micro and macroelements, its balanced complexes are necessarily included in therapeutic schemes.Magnesium forms muscle and bone tissue, and iodine regulates metabolism.Manganese, molybdenum, chromium, potassium, chlorine, selenium and zinc stimulate the strengthening of the tendon-lineer and copper interrupts inflammatory processes.These minerals are present in all the complexes above.The correct use of medications is to use 1 dragee a day - this amount is sufficient to improve blood supply to the brain with beneficial substances.A week later, the signs of anemia disappear, which occurs in 3 stages of development of cervical chondrosis.A person is no longer drowsing, no violation of the coordination of movement.The double objects before the eyes disappear.
Therapeutic plaster
The remedy tested by time for osteochondrosis exacerbations is a pepper patch.Its composition is represented by red pepper phytoexists, Belladonna.Active patch ingredients gradually penetrate the damaged disc area, have an analgesic effect for 3-5 hours.If the neck hurts, the external medicine is used in full or cut into small pieces.Pepper patch is convenient to use for home treatment, working on travel.But he also has a against -Indication - Individual intolerance to one of the components.And in women with sensitive skin, it can cause a chemical burn.The plaster shows anti -inflammatory, decongestant and chondroprotective activity.They are designed to treat all pathologies in the cervical spine.Its use helps reduce the pharmacological load in the human body, reducing doses of systemic drugs.
How to treat cervical chondrosis correctly?
To stop the destruction of intervertebral discs is obtained only by an integrated approach to therapy.The use of orthopedic devices (necklaces) that fix the vertebrae in the anatomical position is practiced.Riters are necessarily used to improve blood supply for damaged tissues with nutrient and bioactive substances.Daily classotherapy, yoga, swimming, fresh air walk are shown.Most medications are advisable to relieve symptoms during exacerbations.They have many side effects, including damage to liver tissues.For constant use, chondroprotectors, blood circulation products, balanced vitamin-minineral complexes are adequate.