In complex cervical chondrosis therapy (osteochondrosis), injection solutions, ointments, creams, tablets, drages are used.The preparations face pain, edema, inflammation, sensitivity, dizziness, blood pressure.
Characteristics characteristic of the disease
The course of cervical osteochondosis is accompanied by a slow and irreversible destruction of the intervertebral discs.Deprived of cartilage absorbing shocks, the bone vertebrae also begin to deform. Upon receipt of a vertebrologist or a neurologist, patients complain of acute or painful pain, stiffness, stunning with a strong increase, therefore therapeutic patterns are made up of drugs with various properties:
- External funds with a local warming action, regenerating and reheated;
- preparations that provide complete nutrition of the brain;
- Chondroprotctors Launching discs of disks;
- Local analgesics and system.
Pathology is not yet completely healed.Doctors' efforts are intended to eliminate painful symptoms, the inhibition of the spread of the disease from another spine.For this, complex therapeutic patterns using drugs from various groups are compiled.
Signs of cervical chondosis
In the early stages of the development of the disease, symptoms in women and men are practically absent.Sometimes a person is disturbed by weak and uncomfortable sensations in the evening.He attributes them to fatigue after a working day, so he's not going to the doctor.And at this time, his intervertebral discs are gradually destroyed.The vertebrae with the formation of bone growth is distorted, pressing the vertebral artery.About a year later, painful sensations are replaced by pain, intensifying by the turning point or the tilting of the head. Chondrosis is also manifested by such symptoms:
- Click, crackling in the neck;
- limit the volume of movements;
- jumps into blood pressure;
- Quick heart rate;
- migraine unilateral pulsating headaches;
- hearing and auditory disorders;
- Stunning, tremors of the approach, sensations of imaginary rotation of objects;
- Nausea attacks, rarely ending vomiting.
Due to the brain oxygen famine, sleep is upset, weakness, apathy, fatigue and ringing in the ears.The psycho -emotional state of a person deteriorates - he becomes nervous, worries the trifle.
The principles of drug treatment
Manual therapists, professional masseurs, physiotherapists and doctors of exercise therapy are involved in the treatment of cervical chondose.At the final stage, the use of folk remedies is authorized.But the main role in complex therapy is assigned to pharmacological drugs. All dose forms are in demand:
- Injection solutions are used for exacerbations of chondrosis in order to quickly eliminate its painful symptoms;
- The tablets, the capsules, the drages are prescribed during remissions to prevent the destruction of the discs, by removing low or moderate pain, circulatory restoration;
- The ointments, the gels, the balms, the creams are the safest, quickly face the stiffness and the unpleasant crunch.
It is rare to treat osteochondrosis with a single medication.Therapeutic patterns generally include at least 5 funds with various pharmacological properties.They are combined, it is practical to use them at home.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
NSAIDs are more often than other drugs in the treatment of cervical chondose.They are represented in acute, piercing or distant and stupid pain.The mechanism of action of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs is based on the ability to inhibit enzymes responsible for the production of neurotransmitters. All NSAIDs have a complete effect on the human body:
- eliminate pain;
- Eliminate the cracking, by clicking that occur during the necks of the neck;
- Stop the flow of net, subaigious and chronic inflammatory processes that affect soft tissues;
- Stimulate a decrease in swelling which undermines sensitive nerve endings;
- Increase the volume of movements in the damaged cervical vertebrae.
In the treatment of chondrosis, drugs in the form of solutions for parenteral administration have proven to be well.Among the tablets, the goal is practiced.The long -term use of NSAIDs leads to damage to gastric mucous membranes.The simultaneous contribution of the proton pump will help avoid this. Drugs reduce the production of aggressive gastric juice with parietal cells, which increases under the influence of NSAIDs.
Synthetic hormones
Glucocorticosteroids are synthetic analogues of hormones that produce the adrenal cortex.It is a "severe artillery" of the drug treatment of cervical osteochondosis.Like natural hormones, glucocorticosteroids quickly stop inflammation, swelling, almost instantly remove pain.They are used in the form of solutions for intramuscular administration.But with acute pain, their administration is directly possible in the area of the destroyed intervertebral disc. The therapy of aggravated pathology is carried out by hormonal drugs.An injection is sufficient for painful sensations to not appear within 3-5 days.Glucocorticosteroids are prescribed to patients with osteochondosis with the ineffectiveness of NSAIDs.This is a large list of their potential side effects.The too frequent use of hormones leads to damage to muscles, bones, tendon-ligament devices.Hormonal agents are prohibited from using a child during lactation, adolescence and childhood.All glucocorticosteroids have a lot of contraindications.In clinical practice to cancel cases of serious liver damage, kidneys, stomach after prolonged hormone therapy.They are not used in the presence of liver cirrhosis, gastro-duodenal ulcer, renal failure, osteoporosis.
Chondroprotective drugs
All means used in the complex treatment of chondrosis only eliminate its symptoms, temporarily improving the human well.The only exception is chondroprotectors.These drugs include ingredients that can start restoring the intervertebral discs of the destroyed cartilage.The neck stops hurting after their use disappears not for several hours, but forever.In pharmacies, chondroprotectors are presented in a wide range.These are capsules, substances for the preparation of injection solutions, powders, wrapped in packages.The most famous chondroprotectors with proven therapeutic efficiency are in demand.
Means improving microcirculation
A drug sought to improve blood circulation with cervical osteochondosis -nikotinata.These drugs are used in the treatment of a high severity pathology, when not only the discs, but also the bone vertebrae are deformed.The compression of the vertebral artery is manifested by the cervicranalgia.It is the name of a whole complex of symptoms of violation of the vertebral artery: headache, "flies" before the eyes, temporary vision of vision, sweating, heart rate.Improve microcirculation, the elimination of "vertebral artery syndrome" helps thioctical acid.It is one of the solutions produced in the form of solutions for parenteral administration.The drawback of these drugs is an indistinct effect, because they accelerate the movement of blood throughout the body, which is not always appropriate.Consequently, the list of their contraindications includes epilepsy, hyperthyroidism, gastro-duodal ulcer.
Medicines with vitamins B
The treatment of cervical osteochondrosis at the stage of exacerbation is not without the use of drugs, the composition of which is formed from group B vitamins. The fact is that acute bone growth of the vertebrae not only breach the vertebral artery.They put pressure on the sensitive nerve roots, overwhelming the innervation.Nerve impulses enter the central nervous system with a delay, its response reactions are inhibited.The violation of innervation leads to paraesthesia - the loss of the sensitivity of certain parts of the body.In the drug treatment of cervical chondosis, drugs whose activity is determined by Pyridoxine, Thiamine, B12 have been well revealed.Many of them are produced in the form of solutions for intramuscular administration.It contains B vitamins and anesthetics.Consequently, after injection, the pain disappears instantly, the volume of movements in the zone of the cervical vertebrae is restored.At the same time, the product improves blood circulation, the work of nervous, muscular and cardiovascular systems, stops inflammation, degeneration of nerves.There are contraindications to its use.These are periods of pregnancy and breastfeeding, hypersensitivity to ingredients.
The best muscle relaxants
The elimination of weak symptoms of cervical osteochondosis and the treatment of the house of its exacerbations are often difficult to build spasms.The nerve spine is pressed from offbeat intervertebral discs, inflammatory edema.There is a strong pain syndrome, which the body is trying to eliminate muscle spasms.Thanks to this particular protection reaction, human mobility is limited, uncomfortable sensations disappear.But often, an increase in the tone of skeletal muscles leads to even greater pressure on nerve endings. Intense pain therefore seems that you can only face it with muscle relaxants.Musorelaxants are combined with all drugs for the drug treatment of chondrosis, including glucocorticosteroids.They are well tolerated by the body, but some can cause dependence and a "cancellation syndrome".Therefore, they are not intended for prolonged therapy.The duration of the treatment rate does not exceed one week.
Drugs improving the psychotional state
Of all chondrosis, it is the particular cervical which impresses the psycho-emotional state of a person.This is offense on bone growths of the vertebral artery, which leads to hypoxia of the brain. The patient suffers from the symptoms of the atypical musculoskeletal system for pathologies:
- panic crises;
- depression, neurosis;
- visual and auditory disturbances;
- unproductive dry cough;
- shortness of breath;
- anxiety, apathy, fatigue;
- Various sleep disorders.
It is not necessary to do when they appear - use drugs for coughs, eyes or ear drops.To eliminate symptoms is often obtained by a reception lesson with a light soothing effect.
Balanced complexes in vitamins
Most vitamins, micro and irreplaceable macroelectors enter the human body with food.But not always food can not provide a physiological need or there is a bad assimilation, a distribution.For example, with circulatory disorders characteristic of cervical osteochondosis.There is a deficiency in bioactive substances, which negatively affects the work of all life systems.To quickly compensate for the daily needs of the body into vitamins, micro and macro-elements, their balanced complexes are necessarily included in therapeutic patterns.Magnesium forms the muscle and bone tissue and iodine regulates metabolism.Manganese, molybdenum, chrome, potassium, chlorine, selenium, zinc stimulate the reinforcement of the tendon-lin device and copper stops inflammatory processes.These minerals are present in all the above complexes.The correct use of drugs consists in using 1 drage per day - this amount is sufficient to improve blood supply to the brain with beneficial substances.A week later, signs of anemia disappear, which occur at 3 stages of development of cervical chondose.A person no longer feels drowsiness, does not suffer from a violation of the coordination of movements.The double objects before the eyes disappear.
Therapeutic plaster
The remedy tested in time for the exacerbations of osteochondrosis is a patch with pepper.Its composition is represented by physistles of red pepper, Belladonna.The active ingredients of the patch gradually penetrate into the damaged disc area, have an analgesic effect for 3 to 5 hours.If the neck hurts, the external remedy is used in its entirety or cut into small pieces.Patch with pepper is convenient to use for the treatment of the house, at work during travel.But it also has a contraindication - individual intolerance to one of the components.And in women with sensitive skin, it can cause chemical burn.Plaster shows an anti-inflammatory, decongestant and chondroprotective activity.They are designed to treat all pathologies in the cervical column.Their use helps reduce pharmacological load on the human body by reducing doses of systemic drugs.
How to properly treat cervical chondosis?
To stop the destruction of intervertebral discs, is only obtained by an integrated approach to therapy.Wearing orthopedic devices (necklaces) which repair the vertebrae in anatomical position is practiced.Massacres are necessarily used to improve blood supply with damaged tissues with nutrients and bioactive substances.Daily classes of physiotherapy exercises, yoga, swimming, walking in fresh air are presented.Most drugs are recommended to use to relieve symptoms during exacerbations.They have many side effects, including damage to liver tissue.For constant use, chondroprotectors, blood circulation products, balanced vitamin-mineral complexes are suitable.