Radiculitis is a disease associated with a violation of the periphery of the nervous system, resulting from inflammation, damage, or pinching in the roots of the spinal nerves. Previously, this ailment, as a rule, suffered from elderly people, but today radiculitis is often manifested in young people.
Symptoms of sciatica
The main signs of this disease are:
- painful sensations - in the affected area there may be periodic, cramping, acute or dull pain;
- sensitivity disorders;
- weakness in the muscles.
In this case, each patient's symptoms of radiculitis can be of a different nature. Some people have pain in the neck and arm, others have a tingling sensation in the lower back and leg. Some patients complain of numbness, burning of some parts of the back.
Types of radiculitis and the causes of its appearance
Most often, when this disease occurs, people do not concentrate on it, "killing" painful symptoms with pills or plaster from sciatica, but if it is not cured in time, the result can be deplorable.
In medicine, it is customary to distinguish radiculitis into several types:
- cervical;
- thoracic;
- lumbar .
The main cause of this disease is osteochondrosis (95% of radiculitis arises precisely because of that). In the remaining 5% of cases, this ailment appears after inflammatory processes in the near-vertebral tissues, spinal injuries, and disorders in the internal organs.
Treatment of radiculitis in the home
At a radiculitis doctors can appoint medicamental treatment with application of anti-inflammatory and analgesic preparations. But home treatment is compulsory.
In parallel, medicines need to do special exercises with radiculitis, which restore the damaged parts of the spinal roots. Usually the course of such classes should be at least 7-10 days.
Very effective in radiculitis massage. It acts soothingly, it is especially good to hold it when the nerve trunks are infringed. The massage is subject to soft tissue and pain points of the patient.
In addition to exercises with radiculitis, therapeutic gymnastics is very effective, which is also a good prophylaxis for the occurrence of a second focus. During such gymnastics it is very important not to overexert yourself: the exercises should relax the muscles and reduce pain. If, with radiculitis, a patient after exercise therapy feels that he is only getting worse, such activities should be stopped.
With any kind of treatment and prevention, it is worth buying a belt from radiculitis, which has a warming and analgesic effect. It is desirable to wear it constantly, until a full recovery comes.
Home treatment for radiculitis
In folk medicine, home treatment of radiculitis involves the use of ointments and herbal compresses that have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, soothing and relaxing properties. To treatment at home gave the result, it is desirable to use ointments during the day, and put compresses at night.
Therapeutic ointment is prepared from such ingredients:
- rock salt;
- mustard;
- breadcrumbs;
- boiled water.
All components in equal proportions are mixed up to the state of thick slurry. Compress can be made from 1 kg of pink potatoes: rub the tubers, put in linen cloth and attach to the sore spot. Before treating lumbar radiculitis in this way, it is necessary to consult a doctor.
It is very effective to treat radiculitis at home using a mustard oil, which is rubbed into the areas where pain concentrates. Also a proven method is the usual Russian stove: with acute pain you need to lie down at night for such an oven, and in the morning you will forget about this problem.