Many people over 35 (and some even earlier) experience persistent back and neck pain. Moreover, the pain arises and disappears, and intensifies after many hours of sitting. Almost always, the cause of these painful sensations is osteochondrosis.
Osteochondrosis is negative (dystrophic) changes in the joints (or rather, articular cartilage) of the spine and intervertebral discs. Osteochondrosis occurs not only in the spine, but with this part of the body this problem is most acute.
Symptoms - what is the main one?
The main symptom of osteochondrosis is, as a rule, pain that appears and disappears. Also, the pain sensations increase with static load, for example, with a long position of the head in an inclined state, the pain in the neck increases. With prolonged sitting, lower back pain appears. At the same time, gymnastics can provide some pain relief.
It is necessary to understand that similar pain can occur with inflammation, but in this case it quickly passes. In case of injury, recovery occurs within 3 months. If you have regular pain in the spine (neck, thoracic, lower back, sacral area) for a year or more, then you have a hernia in 99% of cases.
Osteochondrosis is a progressive disease, so if it is not treated in time, the pain will intensify. But the greatest risks are associated with the consequences of inaction in the treatment of the spine.
Pay attention to the following sensations to initiate immediate therapy:
- feeling of numbness;
- the appearance of goose bumps, tingling sensations;
- the appearance of neuralgia;
- impaired mobility.
Most of these signs are associated with compression of the neurovascular bundle. In this case, compression can be localized in one place, and pain and distorted sensations can be perceived remotely.
Reasons - why is it inevitable?
Osteochondrosis is, in simple terms, wear and tear of the spine. Disorders in the spine are primarily caused by its vertical position and prolonged tension of the paravertebral muscles, which are tonic and relax only when stretched or under the therapeutic influence of specialized devices. It is enough to sit for more than 2 hours at a computer or in a car - this already leads to hypertonicity of the intervertebral muscles of the lower back and neck. And after several years of a sedentary lifestyle, hernias appear in the neck and lower back. That is why it is important to start helping your spine after 30 years! Before the spread of mass sedentary work, sturgeon disease worried people after 40 years. But now this disease is getting younger and begins to manifest itself from the age of 25.
That is, the main reason for the appearance of osteochondrosis of the spine is muscle spasm. And in the treatment should be, first of all, restorative work with muscles.
How to treat? Effective and inexpensive
Treatment of osteochondrosis of the spine at home can be divided into 3 stages:
- We relieve acute pain.
- We eliminate muscle spasm and activate recovery processes and blood circulation in the spine.
- We do general strengthening exercises - this allows you to tone the muscles and consolidate the effect of therapy.
The easiest way to relieve acute pain is with medication. This is the most effective, but it is worth remembering that this is not a solution to the problem, but elimination of the symptom.
At the 2nd and 3rd stages, in order to eliminate the causes of osteochondrosis and prevent its development, an innovative technology that has gained popularity in Europe can be used at home. It is based on autogravity therapy. The therapy is based on the principle of safe action with your own weight on the therapeutic peaks of the devices. Developed by a team of scientists and doctors, the Cordus and Sacrus devices have an anatomical design, the therapeutic protrusions of which are able to sink to the intervertebral muscles or deep ligaments and relieve their tension. No other technology to date can do this as accurately and safely.
Performing the procedure. To perform therapy, you need to take the device, lie on a sports mat or carpet and place the device under the desired area of the spine. The duration of the study of one segment is on average about 3 minutes. During this time, the tense muscle or ligament relaxes under the action of the apparatus. Due to the effect on the main cause of osteochondrosis - muscle spasm - this method is the safest and most effective.
There are 3 processes going on at the same time:
- Proprioceptors are activated - sensors that signal the brain about the state of the muscle. When exposed to them mechanically or by microcurrents for 3 minutes, impulses are transmitted to the nerve center, which regulates muscle tone. Usually, within 2 minutes, the nerve center gets tired and the tonic impulses from the nerve center stops, the muscle relaxes.
- Against the background of relaxation, muscle stretching occurs. This ensures the elimination of compression of the intervertebral disc or nerve, and also restores the mobility of the vertebrae and joints.
- By eliminating disc compression and restoring mobility, in the presence of a hernia, it can smoothly tighten, and the displaced vertebrae gradually restore their original position.
Even if the pain is localized in one zone, therapy should be carried out on all three parts of the spine. For example, pain in the lower back can arise from spasms in the sacrum or neck and vice versa.
After unloading the spine, the apparatus according to the developed methodology performs exercises to stabilize the spine and strengthen the muscular corset, which ensures the consolidation of the achieved results.