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Disease of the thoracic spine: symptoms, treatment, exercises

In diseases of the thoracic spine, there have been negative changes in bone and cartilage tissue. The deformation of the experience of the body of the vertebrae, intervertebral discs, facet joints, it is changing the shape of the spine. In many cases, these processes of the thoracic region of the back are of a logical age-related pattern. However, because of the peculiarities of modern life diseases such younger. To slow them down, you need to change your lifestyle – move more, lose weight, watch your diet.

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Osteochondrosis of the thoracic

Thoracic vertebrae is protected by the structure of the ribs, and less frequently other parts of the spine are experiencing degenerative processes. However, a sedentary lifestyle, and constant wrong, the tense posture leads to collapse of the intervertebral discs even here. The muscles cease to adequately support the vertebrae. And they begin to exert pressure on joint cartilage of the thoracic. Ideally, the drives are a flexible structure and needs to return to physiological shape after any stress. However, due to aging and chronic loads worsening of their circulation. Cartilage and bone do not regenerate, and will dry out over time lose their elastic properties.

The height of intervertebral disks decreases, and the edges of the vertebrae start to blur into each other. The body tries to create new bone tissue on the deformed edges, and formation of osteophytes – sharp spikes, even worse affecting the intervertebral discs.

As a result the person feels pain, decreased mobility, it seems that crunches the spine in the chest area. Pain can pay for the sternum, and it feels like a pain in the heart area. The osteochondrosis does not risk more serious are its complications – a pinched nerve, protrusion, herniation, inflammation.

Osteochondrosis of the thoracic part of the natural aging process. The previous condition of the cartilage did not return, but you can slow down and even stop the degenerative processes that need to change lifestyle. Start to move more on a regular basis to perform exercises of physiotherapy. Massage and physiotherapy. It will be useful and change your daily diet to improve metabolic processes in the tissues of the spine. Individual preventive Earl is losing weight – to get rid of excess kilos to reduce the load on the intervertebral discs of the thoracic.

But to engage in therapy and exercise you can lose weight only after over constant attacks. When in pain, it is better to be at maximum ease. In osteochondrosis, the exacerbations and complications as anesthetic drugs commonly used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory.

Intercostal neuralgia

This is the name of the situation where the nerve root begins to experience compression in the chest Department. More often affects the older generation and people that put their thoracic vertebrae maximum loads.

The pain occurs abruptly and has a stabbing, shooting character, sometimes burning. In some cases, it develops paroxysmal, sometimes on a chronic basis.

Pain in the thoracic spine become stronger when the patient makes a sudden movement, sneezing, coughing or even laughing. Also the attacks begin during physical stress can develop from General fatigue. It seems that the cross is cardiac in nature, and patients often take the appropriate medicines.

To distinguish from intercostal neuralgia of heart problems, you can test it worse, if you exert pressure with your fingers on the pectoral and dorsal region. If your heart aches, will not be worse.

Are eradiri pain in the shoulder, lumbar and clavicular region in nature. Occurs because the nervous system is very extensive and nerve tissue are strongly connected between eachother.

The cause of intercostal neuralgia may lie in one of the following factors:

  • Thoracic osteochondrosis. The vertebrae squeeze the discs and along the nerves;
  • Infectious inflammation. For example, in tuberculosis the purulent accumulation can compress the nerve;
  • The impact of low temperatures;
  • Spasms of the muscles. It's the body's reaction to danger in which the nerve;
  • In some cases, poisoning;
  • Traumatic injuries of the back;
  • Protrusion and hernia.

To treat a disease, such as a pinched nerve in the thoracic spine, need based reasons. But in General, if the condition occurred, is likely to help the analgesics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory. If you find that the problem is muscle spasm, try to drink a course of muscle relaxants, but after the end of the acute period.

Kyphosis of the thoracic

The thoracic kyphosis is a curvature of spine in which the shape change occurs in such a way that the patient begins to roach. Most often this deformity develops in the thoracic spine, and then begins to develop, affecting the lower back and neck.

In most cases, develops in one of the following reasons:

Less this:

  • Spondylitis;
  • Fetal changes;
  • Malignant and benign tumors;
  • Hormones.

Has the following manifestations:

  • Have no talent;
  • The shoulders located at different levels;
  • Weak feet and hands;
  • Impaired sensitivity of the limb;
  • Chronic or acute pain in the chest;
  • The patient is not able to be in the position of standing;
  • Fatigue;
  • Shortness of breath in a moment of fatigue.

To prevent kyphosis, you need to first follow the right posture. To carry any weight with only one side of the body. To devote time to physical activity, swimming in the pool, therapeutic physical training.

Scoliosis

Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine in the thoracic spine between the shoulder blades. Often the disease develops in childhood and adolescence. Blame the costs of the educational system.

Prevention of scoliosis includes the following measures:

  • Early fight flat-footed;
  • Selection of the correct shoes – it should be a little more than "just" but not "in mind";
  • The most important point – the correct workplace. The feet should be located on the ground, elbows on the table. Back – lean back in his chair. Back straight, at a small distance from the edge of the table;
  • To maintain the correct posture during training, the textbooks must be placed on a stand at an angle;
  • Psychologists believe that the table for playing at home the child should be guided in the direction of free space. Otherwise the child begins instinctively to bend in front of the wall.

If the scoliotic curvature of the thoracic are already present, you need to spend a lot of time and effort to fix them. For this fit exercise therapy, massage treatments, swimming in the pool and wearing orthopedic correctors posture.

The spondylosis of the thoracic

The spondylosis is a degenerative destruction of the facet joints of the thoracic spine. As low back pain, less often develops in the chest area.

The reasons for the development of pathology following:

  • Flat feet;
  • Older year;
  • Excess kilograms;
  • Heavy physical exertion;
  • Traumatic injuries;
  • Curvature of the spine.

Symptoms of thoracic arthritis is primarily stiffness, strudent movements and pain. From osteoarthritis they can be easily distinguished – not irradiiruet pain in the interscapular region, and hands.

The aggravation occurs in the morning when people spent the night in a static position, and after waking up feeling a feeling of stiffness. To get rid of that manifestation of spondylosis, quite a good move, and even better – to do morning exercises.

Exacerbation starts in the evenings. Especially after a hard day. The facet joints are deformed in a day, have experienced heavy loads. To achieve relief of pain, enough to lie down in a horizontal position and relax. If you are ill with spondylosis of the thoracic, try to move more, to do physical therapy. In cases where it is felt ossification, stiffness in chest – stand up and mash.

Spondylosis of the thoracic vertebrae

In the result of degenerative processes of the thoracic vertebrae begin to experience friction between each other. In order to avoid such deformation, the body grows extra bone on the edges of the vertebral bodies.

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Patient begin to pursue a strong pain behind the chest. Almost any motion accompanied by pain. If the result of the formation of osteophytes (bone spurs) begins to experience compression of the nerve symptoms of intercostal neuralgia.

The patient feels shooting pains in region of heart becomes weaker limbs. There are signs of loss of sensitivity. In some cases the worst complications of osteophytes, occurs stenosis (narrowing) of the spinal canal. This means that reduced space in which is located the spinal cord, and perhaps it was the compression.

In this case urgent surgery is needed. Pressure on the nervous tissue of the spinal cord at the level of the breast may lead to irreversible consequences. The patient in the worst case will lose sensitivity below the stenosis and lose the ability to move. Comes complete paralysis below the vertebral lesion, and the person waiting for disability.

Protrusion of a thoracic disc

The occurrence of protrusion, and herniation in the thoracic spine – an unlikely situation. But still these abnormalities occur, and bring with them no less dangers than in other areas of the back.

In osteochondrosis of the intervertebral discs chest begin to dry up, cease to be elastic. If you pay attention to conventional springs, you can see that if they cease to be elastic, lose shape, bend under the pressure and turns away to the sides.

The same processes occur with intervertebral cartilage in the situation of the protrusion. Under pressure they slowly or dramatically change their physiological form, and the excess cartilage beyond the boundaries of normalcy.

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The result was chronic or paroxysmal pain symptoms of intercostal neuralgia. Becomes much worse after sudden movements and physical activity, fatigue. However, protrusion is still not that dangerous. Much worse symptoms that the protrusion means a serious risk of hernia. Hernia structure of the intervertebral disc is disrupted, and the possible threat of compression of the nerve roots of the chest.

A special condition is considered to be diffuse protrusion. When the pulp had already left their physiological limits, but is still under the protection of the fibrous sheath. Dangerous such as the fact that at any moment can be a dramatic tear of a circle, and the pulp comes out, squeezing the nerve roots, and in the best case – the spinal cord. This condition requires constant medical attention, and better early surgery.

Herniated thoracic disc

The intervertebral disc consists of dense fibrous ring on the outside which protects a soft purposee the core of what is inside. This entire structure begins to dry out and lose elastic properties because of deterioration of blood circulation in degenerative processes of the cartilage tissue. Then formed a protrusion or bulging of the disc.

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It is not surprising that the area of protrusion has the greatest pressure with a sharp or static loads on the spine. And then the annulus may be torn, and the soft pulp to exit through the formed crack.

Read also: the symptoms and treatment of hernia of the thoracic spine.

Released pulposa fabric with ease is pinching the nerve roots. Pierces a sharp pain, there are muscle spasms. The musculature is reduced to protect the nerve root from further movement and deformation. People at some time loses the ability to move from pain and spasm. The danger is that the effect on the nerve impairs the innervations of respective organs and muscle groups. But pain can be felt weakness in the chest, symptoms paresthesia, i.e. numbness.

Again, there is a great danger of such complications as stenosis (narrowing) of the spinal canal in the area of the chest. If this happens, the probability of spinal cord compression. Again, the result will be a permanent disability. Stenosis may develop if the hernia refers todorsally, that is directed back toward the spinal canal. The focus of hernial protrusion is dependent by and large on random factors and how it distributed the stress in a critical moment of rupture.

Such hernias, moreover, that have in the future serious consequences, the hardest of surgical intervention and removal. After all, they are the most protected region of the spine, plus the smallest error can lead to traumatic injury of the spinal cord, and perhaps the worst consequences for the patient. To reduce the influence of these factors to a minimum, such hernias are operated only by neurosurgeons.

But hernia any other direction requires surgery. Otherwise, neurological symptoms, to win will be difficult, almost impossible. Usually released beyond the boundaries of the cartilage of the pulp is removed or pumped out with special devices. In modern clinics instead of scalpels can be used laser.