The symptoms and treatment of his cervical, thoracic and lumbar degenerative disc disease

Aggravation of degenerative disc disease with a chronic course of the pathology appears most often in the form of a radicular syndrome. The state is formed due to infringement of spinal nerves in the spinal column.

Radicular syndrome on the background of degenerative processes is the most common manifestation of pathology. The symptoms of the disease is usually accompanied by the following forms:

• cervical sciatica;
• headaches
• numbness of the upper extremities;
• head shaking
• a feeling of "tingling";
• tingling of the hands;
• pasty index finger
• throbbing pain in the brow area;
• sharp pain in the chest.

Aggravation of cervical degenerative disc disease may show one or more specific symptoms. If to reveal pathology at early stages, you can have an effective treatment and prevent the emergence of a whole complex of pathological symptoms.

Consider the causes and symptoms of degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the spine in the article.

What is and how to determine the exacerbation

Aggravation of degenerative disc disease is manifested by acute pain in my side and back. Pain worse on deep breath, cough at night, when weather changes. Constant pain can appear within a week. Sometimes it will be unilateral, but sometimes bilateral.

If the background of the disease affects the upper segment of the thorax, appear pain in the shoulder joint and shoulder. In this situation, doctors prescribe x-rays of the shoulder joint and cervical spine.

When in the picture no observed pathology of the shoulder joint, doctors suggest that dizziness, headache and other symptoms of pathology developing due to degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the spine.

Methods of prevention