It is difficult for doctors to answer the question of what can hurt from osteochondrosis, since everything can really hurt - the back, legs, internal organs, eyes. Another thing is that the localization of pain depends on where in the spinal column degenerative tissue changes occur.
At the same time, it is very important to carry out differentiated diagnostics in order to distinguish pain due to osteochondrosis from unpleasant sensations of other origins.
The spine is divided into several sections:
Over time, the spinal column “sags”: its constituent vertebrae and intervertebral discs wear out. This is why human growth, having reached its peak, then begins to decrease with age due to degenerative changes in tissue.
But the reason may be not only age, but also excessive constant loads (for example, heavy lifting), sports injuries, etc.
Pain syndrome in osteochondrosis occurs due to the fact that deformed vertebrae and intervertebral hernias that appear at the site of cracks in the disc affect the nerve endings, causing inflammation and severe pain. In this case, pain can radiate to almost any part of the body.
The nature and intensity of symptoms depends on the stage of the disease. In the early stages, pain occurs rarely and, as a rule, is mild and short-lived.
But as the disease progresses, they change, become more intense, and become permanent.
In the final stages, the pain becomes acute and chronic. There is a feeling of limited movement, especially in the back.
At these stages, patients typically complain of a persistent feeling of fatigue, even if physical activity is minimal or completely absent.
If compression of nerve endings occurs, numbness of the limbs, goosebumps, and tingling sensations may occur. In severe cases, these symptoms accompany muscle atrophy.
Pain characteristic of lesions of the cervical spine is:
With pathology of the thoracic region the following are observed:
If degenerative changes have affected the lumbar spine, the person will feel pain:
When the cervical, but more often the thoracic, spine is affected, pain may occur that resembles heart pain in nature. How to distinguish heart pain from osteochondrosis?
Without delving into the subtleties and complexities of the innervation of the heart muscle and shoulder girdle, we can say that the most accurate way to differentiate osteochondrosis from true cardialgia is examination.
Electrocardiogram at a minimum. Until this happens, the patient will swallow heart medications, fearing pain in the heart area and shortness of breath.
But one of the characteristic differences between osteochondrosis cardialgia is that the condition cannot be controlled with medications. In this case, the mammary gland may also hurt.
Other signs of cardialgia caused by problems in the spine:
In a lying position, the intensity of pain decreases significantly, but as soon as a person assumes a vertical position, they return along with an increase in the load on the spine.
By the way, the weakening of pain in a horizontal position is one of the symptoms of osteochondrosis.
It does not matter where they are localized: it can be pain in the groin, characteristic of lumbar pathology, and in the stomach, which may indicate degenerative changes in the thoracic spine.
If you have symptoms of unknown origin - for example, pain in the armpits that does not go away for a long time - you should consult a doctor.
Only a specialist can make an accurate diagnosis and choose the right treatment. Self-medication will not lead to anything good, but it can blur the clinical picture and subsequently complicate diagnosis.
What makes treatment much more difficult is the fact that people do not perceive osteochondrosis as a serious disease, and when they experience painful sensations, they do not even ask the question, for example, whether it could be a stomach ache, but instead begin to take pills and go on diets.
Although the doctor may recommend a change in diet - in particular, consume boiled cartilage, jelly, and the like. These products contain substances that will help stop destructive changes in the tissues of the spine.
But the main prevention is movement. Simple morning exercises are the healthy minimum that everyone can do, regardless of age and other factors.
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The information in the articles is for general information purposes only and should not be used for self-diagnosis of health problems or for therapeutic purposes. This article is not a substitute for medical advice from a doctor (neurologist, therapist). Please consult your doctor first to know the exact cause of your health problem.
where exactly do they hurt? What exactly hurts? where does it give?
My father’s legs hurt a lot, and also at night. I went to the doctor to no avail, they said age, etc. They say you need to check your calcium metabolism. You're young, see a doctor, it's hell to not sleep at night.
How old are you? Haven’t you yourself tried to understand what kind of pain it is and what it can be caused by and what can help? 9 years ago my joints started to hurt. It happened that because of the pain, she could not raise her arm, to the point that she took her right hand with her left hand and raised it. I started taking glucosamine 500 mg per day - everything became more or less normal.
The whole leg hurts - most of all in the calves and thigh. I went to the doctor and they didn’t find out anything either. My legs have been hurting for several years now - previously only my calves hurt, now from my shin to my lower back. My hands hurt less - I soak them in hot water, and most often they stop. Sometimes the pain continues for three days - then I am knocked out of sleep - I fall asleep and then sleep all night and half a day. During the day they hardly hurt - they start to hurt when I lie down. At first it starts to feel like a needle is pricking my leg (in different places) and then it starts to hurt. At the same time, for some reason it hurts more and more often in summer than in winter. Maybe it has something to do with the kidneys and the amount of fluid I drink? When your legs become very sore, they swell, and when the pain goes away for a couple of days, the swelling subsides.
swelling may be due to rheumatism. Would you like to have your kidneys checked? If the therapist does not prescribe treatment for you, tell him to refer you to a rheumatologist. Or look for a specialist yourself and go to him for examination. Unfortunately, doctors now have a passive attitude towards the treatment of such patients - they don’t need to fool themselves, they don’t want to strain themselves, think about analysis.
it could be anything, the forum will not help you, even after taking tests, doctors cannot give you a clear answer or make a clear diagnosis. It could be arthritis, arthrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, polyarthritis - anything!! Some diseases are very difficult to identify; you can read about it all yourself.
These doctors are sick of them! There is no such diagnosis as "age".
I had something similar, my legs were also pierced by a needle, the neurologist suggested that there was not enough potassium, I started taking asparkam - it went away. True, I’m only 18, I don’t have any accompanying problems in the form of osteochondrosis and I haven’t had any swelling
Looks like rheumatoid arthritis
diclofenac in tablets, and if it hurts very much, it is better intramuscularly. Read the instructions and reviews on the Internet. This is the only thing that helps me.
Yes, very similar to RA. It’s like that with my dad. He also can’t sleep at night from pain. Go to a rheumatologist and get the tests he prescribes.
My mother-in-law has sore joints, her arms and especially her legs hurt. She has been saving herself for the last year with Alezan gel. He says it helps a lot. The pain goes away and then I feel normal for a long time.
My hands hurt, that's one thing. Alezan is quite appropriate here; it helps with any kind of pain - muscle, joint, rheumatism of various kinds. It's true. And the fact that your legs are swelling is most likely not related to the pain in your arms. The first thing you need to do is check your kidneys.
The fact is that there are also problems with the kidneys - they diagnosed kidney deformation. Twice a week I take a diuretic, furasimide, and after taking the diuretic my legs may hardly hurt for a day or two. That's why I think it might have something to do with the kidneys
That's why you get pain from furosemide. Do you take potassium, magnesium, calcium? And joints can also hurt from furosemide; fluid is expelled from the body and lubrication in the joint capsule decreases (I explain this in a simpler way).
I take furosimide together with asparkam. The doctor said that you can take it twice a week.
As soon as I go to bed, my legs and arms start to hurt. I can't sleep for two days because of this. I walk around a little - they stop for a while. Sometimes a hot bath helps. I tried different ointments - nothing helps. At the same time, the legs swell greatly. Does anyone know what this could be from and how to deal with it? Maybe this is due to osteochondrosis (discovered about five years ago)? Thank you in advance.
Troxevasin helps my son, but he has this problem during his next growth spurt. And my grandmother uses Vikola plaster for her feet, it is based on Chinese herbs, it has become much easier.
With similar symptoms, doctors discovered I had iron deficiency anemia. I started drinking sorbifer durules + folic acid + ascorutin. First, two weeks three times a day, then another two weeks two times a day, and another week one time a day. The pain began to go away within a week after starting to take the pills! The cause of the pain was a lack of iron in the body. A year has passed, and periodically, as soon as the pain recurs, I immediately know how to treat it. I definitely do a blood test for iron every 3 months.
Hello. I am 58 years old. I worked in a sedentary job all the time, and for 4.5 months I’ve been on my feet and my legs and lower extremities began to hurt a lot. the pain is as if they are swollen and they are being pricked with needles. At night I can’t sleep, I really want to scratch my soles
I have exactly the same problem as the author, I’m 24 years old, the pain started a couple of days ago when I got sick, the temperature was 40, I was guilty of high fever and chills, now I don’t have a fever, but the problem remains, my lower back still hurts a little, well, it’s most likely that I was lying in bed in various uncomfortable positions in order to get at least an hour of sleep. I don’t really know what to do...
Hello! I’m 26 years old, my legs and arms hurt a lot, it’s hard for me to walk, do anything, I get tired quickly, and every day my legs hurt and now my arms hurt, I don’t know what to do, I have small children, I can’t walk normally with my daughter, my legs hurt so you want to fall on the floor and not get up.
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Osteochondrosis is a degenerative-dystrophic lesion of the intervertebral discs, articular cartilage and bone tissue of the spine. During the process of destruction, the elasticity of the intervertebral disc deteriorates, the vertebrae begin to rub against each other, and the nerve roots of the spinal cord are pinched.
Depending on the location, cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral osteochondrosis is distinguished. Previously, the disease was typical for older people, but in recent years it has begun to rapidly become younger. This trend is associated with the lifestyle of a modern person: poor physical activity, extra pounds, numerous bad habits.
Osteochondrosis (from the ancient Greek osteo - bone, chondrosis - cartilage) is a disease that affects the intervertebral discs and bone tissue of the spine. In simple words, osteochondrosis is premature aging of the spine. There is an untrue opinion among people, a misconception that the disease is associated with the deposition of salts. However, a number of studies have shown that it is not salts that are deposited in the spine, but osteophytes (they are also called bone spurs).
Today, osteochondrosis is not diagnosed except in newborns. Just 15-20 years ago, discovering this disease in a teenager was considered almost a sensation. After all, radicular syndrome (osteochondrosis) is a natural process that comes into the life of every person after 60 years. Unfortunately, scientists have not been able to determine exactly why osteochondrosis appears. The disease occurs in both young and older people, athletes and office workers, people with an active and inactive lifestyle.
However, among the main causes of osteochondrosis are the following:
The intervertebral disc is an elastic element of the spine, thanks to which the vertebrae can move freely when the position of the back changes. Each intervertebral disc consists of an annulus fibrosus, which contains the nucleus pulposus.
With osteochondrosis, the disc loses its elastic properties and strength, which is fraught with rupture of the fibrous ring and its protrusion beyond the vertebra. Common consequences of osteochondrosis are protrusion and intervertebral hernia.
Osteochondrosis is a chronic disease characterized by periodic exacerbations. The cause of the exacerbation period may be injury or physical activity, excessive fatigue and other reasons. This period ends with remission.
The clinical picture of periodic exacerbations is determined by the location of the source of the disease and possible complications.
There is a risk group that includes people who have the following problems or habits:
Treatment of osteochondrosis is to stop the destruction process that has already begun. This is a very lengthy process and it requires complex means. For successful treatment of osteochondrosis, an individual approach to each patient is very important. To choose the right treatment, it is necessary to take into account many factors: the patient’s condition, the stage of the disease, its location.
Medicines are widely used to treat this disease. They are used to relieve pain, regenerate cartilage tissue, and improve blood supply to affected areas. Patients are prescribed the following medications:
My legs often hurt after walking. More specifically, my feet hurt. Previously, I attributed everything to the surgery I had to remove a herniated disc (we talked about this on the website here) and being on my feet for a long time during the day.
But one day I started to notice that my legs hurt in the morning. That is, there was no load on the legs. They hurt so much that I can’t stand on my foot until I walk away. And the most interesting thing is that my legs hurt when I stand on my full foot, as soon as I rise a little on my toes or put on shoes with low heels, the pain begins to recede.
Why can your feet hurt? How to recognize the disease and how to help yourself? We’ll talk about this on the women’s website “Beautiful and Successful”.
The feet are the main support organ of our body. Thanks to the work of muscles and ligaments, they can withstand enormous loads. Remember very fat people who move despite their weight. Can you imagine how hard it is on your legs?
Sometimes coordinated work is disrupted, the foot cannot cope with the load, muscles and ligaments weaken, and various diseases arise that cause pain in the legs. There are many reasons why legs hurt after a long walk. This can be either banal fatigue (on your feet all day) or a specific illness:
We will tell you in more detail about the main symptoms that will help you determine the reason why your legs begin to hurt even after a short walk. Please note that an accurate diagnosis must be made by a doctor. We can only tell you where to go and what to pay attention to.
The most common reason cited by those who suffer from leg pain after a long walk is varicose veins. If you have impaired venous circulation in the lower extremities, then you will definitely encounter pain. Especially after prolonged stress on the legs.
The forums discuss both “grandmother’s” methods and modern medicine drugs that are effective for this disease.
After walking, your feet hurt due to plantar fasciitis - heel spurs. When walking, severe pain is felt in the heel - this is caused by inflamed soft tissues (heel bursitis).
Dry calluses - corns - can form on the feet where shoes press on the foot. This is keratinized skin on the legs. Please note: corns on the feet that do not bother you may be a symptom of diabetes.
Therefore, you should not ignore corns on your feet, which may not bother you, but begin to hurt only after walking.
After a long walk, your legs hurt if the Achilles tendon is inflamed or damaged. Pay attention to the main symptom:
Why is this happening?
When walking without shoes, we roll our weight from heel to toe, and the Achilles tendon is actively working. But if you wear high heels, then rolling does not occur, that is, the Achilles tendon does not work. When you take off your heel, the tendon begins to pull, causing pain in your foot and calves. Hence the pain.
This is an inflammation of the arterial tissues in the area of the foot and calves. Your legs begin to hurt badly not after a long walk, but at the very beginning of the journey. As soon as you walk 50-100 meters, your calves immediately begin to hurt and your feet begin to ache. After stopping, the pain goes away, but soon everything repeats.
The main symptom of this disease is burning pain in the forefoot under the toes, which becomes severe with prolonged walking.
The cause of this pain is a thickening between the 3rd and 4th toes. This is a benign neoplasm caused by constant irritation of the interosseous nerves between the fingers. Swelling occurs when there is excessive load on the forefoot with improperly selected shoes. Pay attention again - the pain is burning. That is, if after walking your legs hurt, and you feel a burning pain in your feet, this is the main symptom of Morton's neuroma.
Feet hurt after walking with flat feet.
With this disease, pain is felt in the area of the thumb - it swells and turns red.
The feet hurt when there is a lack of magnesium and potassium, as well as calcium in the body. With a lack of calcium, osteoporosis can develop, which the women's website sympaty.net talked about in the article Calcium deficiency: how to make up for it?
We recommend taking an additional vitamin complex.
You can help your legs to prevent pain.
As you can see, there are many reasons why your legs begin to hurt after a long walk. But an important preventive measure is wearing the right orthopedic shoes, which will help relieve the stress on your feet. It is also important to monitor your weight and eat healthy.
I’d like to say that legs are not a luxury, but a means of transportation, so take care of them! Easy walking for you!
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If your knee or both knees hurt, first of all you need to find out what happened. Various knee pain is a common pain syndrome that occurs with many diseases. A significant part of them are common diseases. Moreover, these diseases are noticeably “younger”. Therefore, acute, dull, constant, periodic or chronic, aching pain can occur both in an elderly person and at a relatively young age.
The best advice is to see a doctor. As tempting as relief with an ointment or other pain reliever may be, it is not a cure. Such attempts to get rid of knee pain only delay the start of treatment. During this time, the disease continues to develop, sometimes for a long time. As a result, the doctor starts work much later than he should.
Finding out what's wrong is the first thing. But which doctor should I contact if I get very sick? In Western medicine, pain in the knee joints is dealt with by arthrologists, orthopedists, surgeons, and traumatologists. The main examination method is X-ray, followed by CT or MRI, and blood tests.
In Eastern medicine, the doctor determines the root cause of the pain syndrome. At the Tibet clinic in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Western and Eastern approaches complement each other. This helps figure out what exactly happened and why it happened. The doctor at our clinic will determine why your knees started to hurt and how to treat the pain.
The cause of the pain may be inflammation in or around the knee joint, in these cases arthritis or periarthritis is diagnosed. Another possible reason is degenerative changes due to metabolic disorders - arthrosis, periarthrosis. Pain in the knee can be referred (with osteochondrosis, pinched nerve). Or is it a sign of a systemic disease such as rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis.
First of all, it is necessary to exclude injury - fracture, sprain, dislocation, bruise or rupture of tendons, meniscus, joint, ligaments, muscles. This is done using x-rays. If there is no injury, the cause of pain may be one of the following diseases in women and men:
If the pain intensifies when walking, squatting, going up or down stairs, carrying heavy objects, and is accompanied by crunching and limited flexion and extension of the knee, it may be arthrosis of the knee joint. It is called gonarthrosis.
In this case, the cause of pain is thinning, loosening and destruction of articular cartilage. The main reason is a violation of metabolism, blood supply, nutrition of articular cartilage and, as a consequence, a low rate of its recovery. As a result, the process of regeneration of cartilage tissue lags behind its depletion.
The doctor at the Tibet clinic will determine whether the cause is sluggish liver function and slowdown in the synthesis of collagen, the building material for articular cartilage. Or the whole point is a lack of synovial fluid. It serves as a lubricant in the joint. When there is a lack of synovial fluid in the joint, friction occurs, which leads to the destruction of cartilage. Or local blood circulation has been disrupted. A factor in the development of gonarthrosis may be lumbar osteochondrosis and impaired innervation of the knee joint.
To treat gonarthrosis in Tibet, a comprehensive course is used, which consists of herbal medicine and medical procedures. The effect on the Bad-kan (Mucus) system in adults normalizes the amount of synovial fluid in the joint, helps reduce excess weight and stress on the knees, improves hormonal regulation and the functioning of the lymphatic system.
Tibetan herbal remedies improve liver function and activate collagen synthesis, and have an anti-inflammatory effect in the knee.
Acupuncture and acupressure relieve pain, relieve inflammation and swelling in the knee, improve blood circulation in the knee joint, and eliminate muscle and vascular spasms. Moxotherapy on bioactive points improves metabolic processes. Significant pain relief is achieved after just a few sessions, however, treatment of knee arthrosis is not a quick process and requires complex treatment.
Knee pain occurs when the joint becomes inflamed. It can be unilateral (in one knee) or bilateral. Inflammation of the knee joint is called gonitis.
When driven, the pain is usually accompanied by redness, swelling and swelling of the knee joint. Movement of the knee is not limited. The intensity of pain does not depend on loads and movements. When walking, the knee hurts less. In this case, the knee is said to have “come apart.” On the contrary, it is typical that the pain intensifies at rest, when sitting, at night or after a night's sleep.
Inflammation of the knee joint due to arthrosis is called arthrosis-arthritis. With gout, pain and inflammation begin in the big toe but can spread to the knee. In rheumatoid arthritis, inflammation affects both knee joints symmetrically and begins with morning stiffness. Depending on the symptoms and test data, the doctor will determine the causes of the inflammatory process and will act on them.
Thermal procedures are not applied to the knee area when driving. Acupuncture and acupressure relieve swelling, inflammation and pain. Moxibustion therapy at distant points helps drain fluid from the inflamed joint. Tibetan herbal remedies are used, which have anti-inflammatory and chondroprotective effects. Using these methods, most causes of inflammation and pain in the knee joint can be eliminated.
The cause of knee pain may be a disease not of the joint, but of the periarticular structures. The knee joint is surrounded by synovial bursae and a capsule. Here are the tendons and ligaments, muscles. Inflammation may occur at the junction of tendons and bone. The bursa may become inflamed. Hence the possible diagnoses are tendinitis (ligamentitis), epicondylitis of the knee, bursitis, tendobursitis.
These diseases usually occur due to multiple microtraumas, overloads and fatigue of the knee during intense sports. On the other hand, degenerative changes around the joint may not be related to physical activity. For example, knee periarthrosis often accompanies lumbar osteochondrosis. The reason is a pinched nerve in the lower back and disruption of the innervation of the knee joint.
Treatment of these diseases is carried out according to the same principles and schemes as the treatment of gonarthrosis and gonitis. With the help of acupuncture, inflammation, swelling and pain are relieved. Acupressure enhances the effect of acupuncture and improves blood circulation in the knee. Moxotherapy is used on the knee area for arthrosis. In the case of periarthritis, it is used at distant points on the meridians of the body to improve metabolic and recovery processes.
The effectiveness of such complex therapy is very high. Positive results are achieved in most cases of periarthritis and periarthrosis.
If a joint disease has led to prosthetics, oriental medicine in Tibet will help speed up the recovery process. With the help of massage, acupuncture and other procedures, as well as herbal remedies, knee pain after prosthetics is reduced and rehabilitation is accelerated.
Good results are achieved through a combination of oriental methods with shock wave therapy (SWT) and laser treatment. These methods of physiotherapy have an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect, improve blood supply to the joint and periarticular tissues. They are used with no less effectiveness for recovery from injuries - ruptures of tendons, ligaments, menisci or muscles, knee sprains.
Pain in the back of the knee can be a sign of osteochondrosis, protrusion or herniation of a spinal disc in the lumbosacral region. With this disease, the nerve root is pinched. As a result, pain spreads along the nerve in the leg. Pain in the back of the knee is usually accompanied by pain in the foot, hip, or buttock.
In this case, treatment will be directed to the affected segment of the spine. With the help of acupuncture, precision massage, moxotherapy and other procedures, the doctor activates restoration processes. In uncomplicated cases, manual therapy is used. The release of the nerve leads to rapid disappearance of pain in the leg and knee.