Osteopathy: diseases — симптомы, диагностика и лечение

Osteochondrosis is age-related degenerative changes in the intervertebral discs and joints of the spine. It is important to understand: to one degree or another, almost all people after 30–35 years have them, and in themselves they are not a disease. The problem is that this diagnosis in post-Soviet medicine is used to explain almost any pain - in the back, neck, head, arm, heart. Meanwhile, in most cases, back pain is not associated with “salt deposits”, but with muscles and joints, and responds well to movement, rather than rest and IVs.

Scoliosis is a three-dimensional deformation of the spine with lateral curvature and rotation of the vertebrae. Most often it is idiopathic, that is, it develops without an established cause, and appears during a period of rapid growth, much more often in girls. The main feature of scoliosis is that it progresses during the child’s growth and stops after its completion. Therefore, timing is everything: scoliosis detected in time can be supported with a corset, but if missed, it will require surgery. Posture and “correct sitting” have almost no effect on true scoliosis, and it’s worth knowing this so as not to waste months.

Tension headaches are the most common headache in the world, and that is why they are almost never treated: they just live with it, swallow a pill and get back to business. It feels like a squeezing hoop or a tight hat, covers the head on both sides, is rarely strong and does not get worse from normal walking. It does not pose a danger in itself, but it has an insidious continuation, which few people know about: if painkillers are taken more than a certain number of days a month, they themselves begin to cause headaches. So rare attacks turn into a daily background, and the person is sure that the disease is progressing, although the reason lies in the package of pills on his desk.

The temporomandibular joint connects the lower jaw to the skull and remains the only paired joint of the body that cannot work as halves separately: both sides move simultaneously, and a problem with one inevitably affects the other. Inside the joint lies a cartilage disc - a pad that slides along with the head of the jaw every time the mouth opens. It is this sound that is most often associated with the sound that brings people to the doctor. Two opposing and equally incorrect opinions have developed around this sound: “it clicks, it means there’s nothing wrong with it, everyone clicks” and “it clicks, it means the joint is destroyed.” The truth is in the middle and quite specific: an isolated painless click without restriction of mouth opening is actually observed without treatment. But a click along with pain - or a click that suddenly disappeared simultaneously with the ability to open your mouth wide - is no longer the norm, but a reason to see a specialist, and in the second case in the coming days.