The signs, symptoms, and treatment of breast chondrosis

Chest Chondrosis and osteochondrosis of the thoracic spine is a different disease.

Anatomically Rib cage consists of ribs, sternum and vertebral column. Degenerative-dystrophic changes cover not only the intervertebral discs. The defeat of the costal-vertebral articulations, calcification of the cartilage ends of the ribs, bony growths – all these violations are observed when chondrosis.

Correct diagnosis is not easy, but it determines the choice of methods of treatment of disease.

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Breast chondrosis is manifested not only by pain in the back. When there is pain in the heart, the stomach, disturbed breathing and increases the amount of heartbeats.

Factors predisposing to disease

The Main causes of:

  • malnutrition of the intervertebral disc;
  • uneven workload distribution;
  • reduction of the metabolic processes;
  • degenerative processes in soft tissues.

People who due to their professional activity daily lift heavy objects, over time is degenerative-dystrophic lesions of the spine in the thoracic region. Pathology results from the formation of arthritis in the rib-vertebral, transversely of the rib and the intervertebral joints that leads to limited mobility of the vertebral axis.

Pinching the nerve roots gradually leads to the occurrence of pain in the area of innervation of the affected nerves. If the pressure is unevenly distributed in the sympathetic nerve fibers, increased activity impulses to the internal organs. Against this background, formation of pathologic symptoms of the disease not only on the part of the spinal column, but also many minor signs of the disease.

Common symptoms and signs