Symptoms of the disease osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine

Osteochondrosis is an insidious disease. The causes of its occurrence are the destruction of the intervertebral discs, as well as the joints and ligaments of the spine. The danger of the disease consists in the fact that the symptoms of osteochondrosis can manifest itself not only with pains in the spine. Therefore, you need to carefully treat the emerging pain and not engage in self-medication.

I say this, as they say, "with knowledge of the matter,because I experienced it several times. One night my heart ached: aching pain in the heart, pain in my left hand, ringing in my ears. Sedatives did not help. The ambulance brigade diagnosed the osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine. An injection of an anesthetic took off an imaginary heart attack.

Indeed, patients with a diagnosis of osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine often come to see a cardiologist.

However, osteochondrosis can give painful sensationsnot only in the heart. Compression pain behind the sternum, between the shoulder blades, acute pain when breathing. The sensation of an "iron grip", which binds the movement: neither to sigh, nor to swallow, nor to turn.

In the thoracic spine are concentratedVegetative centers that regulate internal organs. Therefore, osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine can provoke symptoms of other diseases. The patient may have suspicions of acute cholecystitis, acute appendicitis, intestinal colic.

Pain syndrome, which causes osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine, can be of a gastrological nature. Pain appears in the epigastric region.

Often in patients, several parts of the spine are affected, and pain gives cervical chest osteochondrosis. Symptoms of the disease with damage to the cervical spine are manifested in the following.

Basically, the painful syndrome captures the areaneck, shoulders, hands, nape. More often pains arise at once in several places. Headaches, impaired vision, loss of consciousness accompany cervical osteochondrosis.

In acute attacks of osteochondrosis, you should immediately seek medical help.

When the pain syndrome is removed, you need to think about prevention. In patients with a diagnosis of breast osteochondrosis, treatment begins with exercise.

Often too lazy to take care of yourself. However, even the school warm-up that we performed at the physical education class can help and prevent the emergence of acute attacks. The main thing is constancy.

Simple exercises support the spine. These are the slopes of the head, twists of the trunk, not sharp rotating movements of the hands, torso of the trunk forward and down, squats, feet with legs. All exercises should be done calmly, without sudden movements.

A great exercise is to hang on the crossbar. The spine is gradually stretched, releasing the intervertebral discs.

Another exercise - "kitty." Do it slowly. Lie on the floor, hands stretched forward along the head. Slowly we bend our back, lifting our head up and pulling our arms up. Fix a new position: the lower part of the trunk lies on the floor, the upper part of the trunk is raised, you lean on your hands. Now slowly go back to the starting position. then we bend to the other side. Slowly raise the pelvis, head down. We fix a new position: the body forms an arc, resting only on the arms and legs. To return to the starting position too slowly.

An effective exercise for the treatment of osteochondrosis is walking around the room on four limbs: on the hands and feet, the trunk is arched.

These exercises are slow, the load increases gradually. In no case can not overstep the spine.