Osteochondrosis

Osteochondrosis is one of the most common diseases of the musculoskeletal system in middle and old age. This is a disease of the cartilaginous surfaces of the bones of the musculoskeletal system, mainly the spine, as well as the hip and knee joints.

With cervical and upper thoracic osteochondrosis, a variety of pains occur: in the heart area (they are often mistaken for a manifestation of coronary artery disease or angina), in the shoulder joint and throughout the arm on one or both sides, in the head, as well as dizziness with short-term loss of consciousness (due to for disorders of blood supply to the brain).

Osteochondrosis in the middle and lower thoracic spine can cause pain in the epigastric region and in the abdomen, which is often mistakenly associated with diseases of the stomach, pancreas, gall bladder, and intestines.

With widespread osteochondrosis, and sometimes with osteochondrosis in the lumbar spine, the hip and knee joints are affected. In this case, X-rays of the hip and knee joints show degenerative changes in the cartilaginous surface, spiky bone growths and narrowing of the joint spaces.

With lumbar osteochondrosis, prolapse and pinched discs are often observed.

Osteochondritis is a skeletal disease, which is a chronic degenerative process in articular cartilage, most often localized in the most mobile joints - hip, knee, shoulder - and intervertebral. O. is often also called a disease of the eyelid, cervical chondrosis.

Osteochondrosis is a degenerative-dystrophic lesion of the spine, which occurs more often as a result of its overload (for example, with prolonged forced immobility, prolonged work with the torso bent, bruises, etc.).

Osteochondrosis is based on malnutrition of the intervertebral discs,