Clinic Larsa

30/06/2022

Treatment of osteochondrosis
The first step is to reduce as many of the risk factors identified by the doctor during the interview as possible. Eliminate axial loads, limit the severity of objects carried, sometimes change traumatic work associated with physical labor, lose weight if it is in excess, include minimal sports in the daily schedule for physical inactivity. This will only slightly reduce the degree of pain in osteochondrosis and the risk of complications, although it will hardly slow down its progression.

Treatment must necessarily be comprehensive and combine not only medical methods, but also various types of effects on the vertebral muscles and the spinal column itself. You can’t just take pills for osteochondrosis on your own and hope for a cure, only a neurologist can prescribe any procedures and drugs. The specialist bases his recommendations on each specific case and the individual characteristics of the patient, so that the treatment does not bring more suffering than the disease itself.

30/06/2022

Diagnosis of osteochondrosis
The doctor begins by collecting complaints and anamnesis (family, life and disease), which analyzes the presence of predisposition, external and internal risk factors, the relationship of symptoms and the progression of the lesion.

The review consists of:
neuroorthopedic, during which the static and dynamic functions of the spine are assessed (posture, the presence of scoliosis, muscle tone and range of motion of the intervertebral joints and limbs);
neurological - determination of reflex and compression vertebrogenic syndromes, motor and sensory functions, quality of tissue trophism.
The simplest and most accessible instrumental diagnostic method for osteochondrosis of any spine (cervical, thoracic or lumbar) are non-contrast and contrast (discography, venospondylography) x-ray studies that reveal narrowing of the intervertebral discs, the level of hernial protrusion, the state of the vessels. A little less often, more informative magnetic resonance imaging is used, with which you can accurately assess the degree of damage to the intervertebral disc, the size of the hernia, the presence of compression of the spinal cord, roots, and surrounding tissues. If MRI is contraindicated, it is replaced by computed tomography, which determines the state of the vertebrae themselves, the spinal canal, and calcification of the ligaments.

30/06/2022

30/06/2022