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How to remove an acute attack of cervical and thoracic degenerative disc disease

Acute attack of degenerative disc disease can have a distinct location depending on which area of the spine affected: cervical, thoracic or lumbar. Consider the symptoms and features of treatment of an acute attack of low back pain in each of the divisions of the vertebral column.

Symptoms of acute disease in the cervical spine

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Acute attack of low back pain in the cervical spine also known as posterior cervical sympathetic syndrome. The patient with this disorder experiences the following symptoms:

  • headache;
  • violation of visual function;
  • violation of or partial loss of hearing;
  • frequent dizziness.

Symptoms of cervical degenerative disc disease acute form to develop due to irritation of the vertebral bodies deformed blood vessels and nerve plexus, which nourish the brain.

The Most important symptom of the development of asthma cervical degenerative disc disease is pain in the cervical and neck areas. The patients characterize her differently: sharp, burning, dull or bursting. Most often patients complain of a dull pain, worse when bending and turning the head. The pain spread to the side of the head from occipital to frontal region.

depending on the strength of pain and the duration of the attack of degenerative disc disease of the cervical spine is divided into two types:

  1. Short-term, which lasts from several seconds to several minutes and occurs several times a day. Its symptom is throbbing pain in the occipital lobe or in another particular location of the head.
  2. Long the attack may last for hours, exacerbating migraines and pain in the eye sockets and swelling of the mucous membranes of the nose, vision problems.

Symptoms of attack in the thoracic region