Radiculitis , or radiculopathy is a symptom of the clinical manifestations of lesions of the spinal roots with characteristic acute pain during the course of their lesion, a violation of sensitivity and motor functions. Often there is an acute lumbar, sacral or lumbosacral radiculitis. Then the disease passes into a chronic form with periodic exacerbations. Less common is chest, cervical or cervicothoracic sciatica.
Today we will talk about the symptoms and home treatment of various forms of acute and chronic radiculitis at home using folk remedies and consider the medical treatment of lumbosacral and cervicothoracic radiculitis with the help of drugs, medications and procedures.
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Causes of acute and chronic sciatica
The most common cause is osteochondrosis of the spine, in which cartilaginous intervertebraldiscs lose their elasticity, the distance between the vertebrae decreases and this leads to infringement of the nerve fibers leaving the spinal cord.
With decreasing thickness( height) of the discs, marginal osteophytes are formed on the vertebrae, which, when they are joined by edges, fix the vertebrae in one position. These forming protrusions during exercise and movement can press on the nerve roots and cause pain.
Sharp movements - turns of the head, trunk, spasms of the back muscles in trauma, body hypothermia, poisoning can cause a similar clinical picture with radiculitis.
Lumbar and Sacral Sciatica: Symptoms
Acute lumbosacral sciatica: lumbago, lumbago
Acute lumbar, sacral or lumbosacral sciatica is also called "lumbago, lumbago" is the most common. Pain is felt in the lumbosacral region of the spine, buttock with recoil in the thigh, shin, foot. Pain is instantly enhanced by movement and the patient avoids sharp turns and movement. In bed, a person to reduce leg pain.
The patient can neither bend, nor straighten and freezes in the position in which he was caught by pain. Pain can be given to the hips or buttocks, it can "shoot" the entire leg to the foot. Some easing of pain occurs only if the patient finds a comfortable position on the back or on the side in bed.
The disease usually lasts 2-3 weeks, but depending on the severity, this time can significantly increase or decrease.
"Lumbago" can be for every person, but with the right treatment, it passes without a trace.
The cause of the disease may be mechanical changes in the intervertebral joints, intervertebral discs, ligaments or nerve fibers.
Chronic sciatica: symptoms
This disease is one of the most common;it accounts for about 25% of cases of all nervous diseases. Most often lumbar and sacral sciatica are sick people of middle and older age who are engaged in manual labor and work in adverse climatic conditions.
Lumbosacral sciatica is manifested primarily by lumbar pains, the intensity of which varies.
Pains may appear in the lumbar region or along the sciatic nerve. The onset of pain in the lumbar region is a sign that indicates a bad spine. Pain can have a pulling, blunt, cutting, tearing character and in almost all cases make a person immobilized. Sometimes they are worse when coughing, sneezing, straining. Trying to get rid of the pain, a person often takes a forced position, his gait and motoric movements change.
Lumbosacral sciatica usually is one-sided, and the lesion is limited to a small number of roots or one spine;bilateral lesions are rare and are observed only with a movable intervertebral disc or with its posterior displacement.
The disease develops gradually, with periodic exacerbations and almost always has a recurrent nature. Studies of the flexibility of the spine show that the ability of the patient to lean forward and sideways is greatly reduced. Pressing a finger near the spinous process in the lumbar region most often causes pain, characteristic for this disease.
With chronic sciatica, it is very important for the patient to adapt to the disease. A person can work and live normally, while remaining almost healthy, but to fully recover from his illness, he will have to make a lot of efforts. With illness it is necessary to be considered constantly both in work, and on rest, and in family life.
Daily 15-minute spine training - exercises will cause the disease to retreat for a while. The first time the exercises will be given with difficulty - hampers the pain, but you can not stop the treatment for a single day.
One of the most common methods of treating lumbosacral radiculitis is the use of heat in any form. It can be hot sand, hot salt, sollyx, quartz, hot sawdust, packed in a bag, etc.
Cervical and thoracic radiculitis: symptoms of
Radiculitis of the cervical, thoracic or cervicothoracic spine is much less common than the lumbosacral. In this form of radiculitis, the nerve roots of the upper thoracic and lower cervical vertebrae are mainly affected.
The disease is usually one-sided and begins with the appearance of pain in the neck. Pains are given( irradiated) to the area of the upper humeral girdle, hands, fingers, to the heart area and interscapular space. Sometimes the pain is preceded by a feeling of numbness in the same zones.
Acute pains most often appear suddenly, sometimes just by tilting or turning the head. Often the pain can be relaxed, turning the head in different directions, but the unsuccessful movement strengthens it. Usually, pain intensifies during sleep and it is difficult for the patient to find a comfortable position for the head. Simultaneously, the muscular strength of the affected limb weakens.
The cause of radiculitis of the cervicothoracic spine is the infringement of the roots of the spinal nerves due to bone neoplasms or age-related changes in the spine. A common cause is a decrease in the intervertebral space due to the flattening of the cartilaginous layer.
Cervico-thoracic radiculitis may occur due to the patient's hernia of the intervertebral disc or inflammation of the muscles and ligaments located near the nerve end. A characteristic sign of cervicothoracic radiculitis is the suddenness of "shooting" pains that spread to the individual muscles of the hands and fingers.
In the treatment of cervico-thoracic radiculitis, it is first necessary to reduce the load on the cervical and thoracic vertebrae, to limit the turns and inclinations of the head.
A good helper here is the cervical bandage. During the acute course of the process, you can apply cautious neck stretching( the procedure should only be done by a doctor!).
In the treatment of radiculitis of the cervicothoracic spine, the same methods and methods of treatment are used as in the treatment of lumbosacral radiculitis.
This disease occurs equally often in young people and in the elderly. The very name of the disease gives an idea of the nature of the disease. The disease begins suddenly as a sharp pain in the lumbar region. Most often, pain occurs when lifting weights or when moving sharply with a forward tilt and a turn to the side. Simultaneously with a sharp pain in the back of the patient's back, the patient takes a forced bent position.
With cervical-brachial radiculitis, pain is noted in the back of the neck, shoulder, shoulder blade, is amplified by turning the head, moving the hand, coughing. In severe cases, there is numbness, burning and tingling in the skin of the hand;sensitivity is impaired. Thoracic radiculitis is quite rare and manifests itself in pain in intercostal spaces, which increase with movement.
Home treatment for lumbar, sacral, cervical and thoracic radiculitis
Treatment is carried out by a neurologist, orthopedist, the direction of treatment is directed mainly to eliminate the causes of sciatica. Along with anesthetics, physiotherapeutic procedures, curative gymnastics, stretching of the spine are used.
Extension of the spine - a special technique to increase the distance between the vertebrae, clamped nerve endings are released. A sick person immediately feels a reduction in back pain.
Self-use of warming up and anesthetics is unacceptable, because back pains can be caused by other diseases, in which the use of heat is contraindicated.
When applying traditional medicine, this must be taken into account. The disease is cured rather difficult, more often the patient has to live with it and adapt to it. With exacerbations of radiculitis, you need a bed rest, limiting sudden movements.
From domestic folk remedies in this period are used medicinal plants, drugs that have analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect.
How to rub the ointment and rub correctly?
Medicines for radiculitis are more often used in the form of rubbing and ointment externally. It is important to be able to properly perform grinding. The hands of the masseur must be warm. On one hand pour or put a means for rubbing or ointment.
Begin by gently stroking the affected area upwards for 10-20 minutes, and with severe pain - 5 minutes.
Keep track of the presence on the hand of the mass to be rubbed, to drive once again on the affected sites with a dry hand. If the ointment ends, take a new portion.
After the procedure, heat up the sore spot and try not to chill.
Treatment of radiculitis at home
Folk remedies
Herbal remedies use plants that have analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.
Treatment with clay .Take a bucket of red clay, add water, heat and stir well to get a uniform mass. Its temperature should be 40-45 degrees. Then add 1 cup of kerosene( per bucket) to the resulting mass and mix again well. Make a flat cake out of clay so that it covers the sore spot, put it on your lower back and cover it with a warm blanket. Keep on the body until it cools. The procedure should be done two to three times a day. During the day you can use one cake.
Put the pest plaster on a painful place and keep it for a day.
Radish black .Radish peel, grate and spread on a napkin or linen cloth with a layer of up to 3 cm. Place on a sore spot and cover with wax paper or a plastic bag. Tie it up. Keep the compress until the patient is able to stand. The procedure is done once a day for 4-5 days.
Grated radish superimposed in this way also works well for chronic radiculitis, myositis and rheumatism.
Grated horseradish is used in the same way as radish.
Gland .From the bottom of the stack, collect small remains of hay, tie it in a linen bag or gauze and boil it under the lid. In a very hot form( do not burn!) Apply to the sore spot 3-4 times within one hour. Sharp pain will gradually subside.
Salvia officinalis .Two tablespoons of sage, pour 300 ml of boiling water and leave for 1 hour. Strain. Put it in the freezer and freeze. Slices of ice rub the sore spot 2-3 times a day, followed by warming( a warm blanket, woolen cloth).
Agave .Take a leaf of the agave, cut it flat( cutting off the spines) and rub them a sore spot).Agave juice is very irritating to sensitive skin, so the first and second time you have to rub very carefully. Then, if the skin is not very red, do a stronger rubbing, with pressure.
Black Chinese plaster stick to the sore spot and do not remove for three to four days.
Swamp Ledger .Pour two tablespoons of ledum into five tablespoons of olive oil or vegetable oil, close the lid tightly and insist on a hot plate for 10-12 hours. Cool, strain. Apply for grinding.
The hot baths and dry jars on the waist region are a good remedy for lumbago.
As O. Morozova writes, it is useful to rub the affected area with a mixture of olive oil and chloroform in equal parts twice a day.
Burdock leaves .A fresh sheet of mug moistens with cold water and attach the underside to a sore spot. Top with something warm( scarf, towel) and firmly tie. Keep for 1-2 hours.
The burdock leaves can be harvested for the winter and dried in the shade. In winter, such a sheet with a long handle can only be soaked in cold water and can be used to treat an acute attack of radiculitis.
At lumbago, you can use the following old folk remedy: grasp your arms tightly on the crossbar, pull yourself up on your arms and then quickly relax your arm muscles without throwing the crossbar. The body will be vigorously shaken. In this case, the strangulated nerve can free itself and the pain will pass away. This same exercise can be used for spondylosis.
Kizil .Flesh of fresh cornelian fruits wrap in gauze and apply to the sore spot 3-4 times during the day. Dogwood has an analgesic effect.
Take a tablespoon of turpentine and rub it in the lower back until redness appears. Put on the waxed paper a layer of rye dough, cover with gauze and attach from above to the place that was rubbed. Top with a layer of cotton wool. Keep the compress for an hour. If the patient does not withstand severe burning, the compress can be removed earlier. Procedure spend three days in a row. Do not rinse the remainder of the test with water, but carefully remove with tweezers. Vaseline and oil, do not lubricate the affected area.
Methods for treating lumbar and sciatic sciatica
All treatments for of chronic sciatica can be divided into three large groups:
- Means for external use.
- Means for internal use.
- Ancient folk remedies.
Means for external use
Black whitened .Extract from the leaves of bleached insist on sunflower oil for 4-5 days. It is used in the form of rubbing as a good analgesic. Mustard Sareptian .It is applied in the form of local irritating and distracting means in the form of mustard plasters or mustard powder. Some healers are prepared with mustard the following composition :
- dry mustard - 100 g,
- salt cooked - 200 g,
- kerosene.
Mix the salt with the mustard and add as much kerosene to make a gruel. Kashitsu rub in painful places with radiculitis and myositis once or twice a day. Pepper red .Two pods of red hot pepper finely chop and mix with 300 ml of ammonia. Insist 14 days in a dark place, shaking daily. Apply as rubbing in radiculitis, paralysis, myalgia and myositis.
Mix well the black radish juice glass , half the honey glass, and 2 tablespoons vinegar. Tightly close the lid in a glass jar and let it brew for 5 days. Before use, apply a lubricant to the affected areas with vegetable oil( to avoid burns), then compress from the mixture for 30-40 minutes. After that, carefully wipe the oiled place and wrap it overnight. The course of treatment is 10-12 procedures. Radish skin should not be removed before rubbing, it is better to diligently wash it and use it: it is very curative.
Wash the potatoes with and cut them into slices 3-5 mm thick together with the peel. The smaller the cut potatoes, the better.1 kg of potatoes, pour 3 liters of boiling water and cook for 1 hour on low heat. Cut dill, parsley, kindzu, celery there and eat this dish for 7-10 days. Usually acute radiculitis pain subsides in a few days.
Oil from cannabis seeds is used for rubbing with loin diseases.
In 100 g acetic essence , lower 2 eggs. When the shell dissolves, remove the film, rub the eggs with 30 g of butter and mix with the liquid. Lubricate sore spots with the product.
An ointment prepared from fresh butter and of birch buds has good therapeutic properties. Put fresh rustic oil in a pot in layers. For a layer of oil 1-1.5 cm, put a layer of birch buds of the same thickness. Thus, the pot must be filled almost to the top. Put it for a day in a well-heated Russian stove. Then, from the protruding kidneys, it is necessary to squeeze out the oil and add 7-8 g of camphor powder to it. Keep the ointment in the refrigerator or cellar in a container with a well-ground lid. Rinse the sore spots before going to bed.
In connection with the excessive formation of salts in the joints, an effective treatment is the decoction of the roots of madder dyeing, and frequent use of parsley in food.
Lilac . Tincture of flowers. For preparation of tinctures it is better to use a white lilac.2-3 tablespoons of flowers, pour 300 ml of alcohol or vodka and insist in a dark place for 7-10 days. Strain. Use in the form of rubbing pain points 3-4 times a day.
Eucalyptus .For grinding, use eucalyptus oil and tincture of its leaves: 100 g for 200 ml of vodka, insist 7 days, strain.
White acacia .Flowers of white acacia( 100 g for 300 ml of vodka), insist in a warm place for 7 days, strain and apply in the form of grinding.
Birch leaves .Pour birch leaves with boiling water, apply a thick layer on the inflamed place, cover with plastic wrap or compressor paper for 2-3 hours. Relieves acute pain syndrome.
Fresh burdock leaves wash with water( dry boil with boiling water) and apply back to the sore spot. Top cover with plastic wrap or compressor paper.
Rosemary .Prepare a tincture of thin twigs and leaves of rosemary: for 3 tablespoons of the crushed mixture - 300 g of alcohol or vodka, insist 7 days. Apply in the form of rubbing in the treatment of radiculitis. After 3-4 procedures, the pain usually goes away.
The root of the horseradish ( contains burning essential oils) grate and, together with the juice, attach it to the sore spot in the form of a compress. To burn feeling was not very strong, you can add a little sour cream.
Infusion of valerian root ( drugstore) rub into painful areas with radiculitis and muscle diseases. Can be applied as a compress on a napkin. Compress up to 30 minutes.
Bodywoman .Bodyaga and drugs from it are often used in the treatment of radiculitis, osteochondrosis, rheumatism and various joint pain.
Prepare composition:
- body water - 15 g,
- camphor oil - 60 g,
- turpentine - 200 ml,
- ammonia - 200 ml,
- oprednok rus( homeopathic remedy) - 200 g,
- volatile ointment - 100 ml.
Mix all ingredients and let them brew. Mixture rub in painful places. It is better to do this at night. After rubbing heat, cover the patient. The course of treatment is one month. Procedures are done daily.
The horsetail of the field is applied externally in the form of warm compresses. The broth is prepared as follows: 30-40 g of horsetail herbs, pour 200 ml of boiling water, boil 2-3 minutes, infuse for 1 hour. The resulting broth diluted with water 1: 1, moisten with a solution of woolen cloth and put on a sore spot in the form of a compress.
From the roots of burdock make a 10% tincture on vodka 1:10.Apply in the form of compresses and rubbing.
Means used inside
Take 1 kg birch and aspen bark , add 100 g oak bark , pour 5 liters of boiling water and boil for 30 minutes. Strain and drink half the glass 3-4 times a day. First, a significant deterioration in the general condition is possible, but after 2-3 days there will be a noticeable relief.
Iva .A tablespoon of leaves and crushed willow bark, taken evenly, pour a glass of boiling water and heat on a water bath for 15 minutes. Refrigerate for an hour, strain and wring out the thick. Add the boiled water to the original volume. Drink 100 ml three times a day for half an hour before meals. Leaves should be harvested in the summer, the bark in early spring. Thyme creeping .3 tablespoons of herbs pour 300 ml of steep boiling water. Insist 1 hour, strain. Take 1 tablespoon three times a day. Warm cake can be used as a poultice for external use as an analgesic.
Take the peel from the pine nuts , dry it in the oven and pour it into powder. Powdered powder in 500 ml of vodka and put on a month in a dark place. Shake daily. Strain. Drink 1 tablespoon three times a day for half an hour before meals.
Aloe .Fresh aloe juice is useful to take inside 1 tablespoon with radiculitis and neuritis.
Aloe tincture .Take 400 g of 4-5-year-old aloe, pass through a meat grinder and mix with 600 g of pure May honey. Add 700 ml of good red wine( such as Cahors), mix and place for 7 days in a dark cool place. First five days, take 1 teaspoon three times a day for an hour before meals, then 1 tablespoon three times a day. The course of treatment is up to 45 days.
Howling of hop cones .Pour two tablespoons of cones into 200 ml of boiling water. Insist 1 hour, strain. Take 1 tablespoon three times a day as an analgesic.
Cones used for decoction should be of a normal degree of maturity.
Drug medication for lumbar and sacral radiculitis
In the treatment of acute lumbosacral radiculitis, first of all, bed rest is recommended. The most favorable posture for the patient is the position: lying on the back with the half-bent legs laid on the pillows.
It should never be forgotten that, for both acute and chronic radiculitis, the patient's bed should be rigid .A wooden board or boards are placed under the mattress so that the pelvis does not fall into the soft feather bed, as this will once again injure the clamped nerve endings and intervertebral discs.
In the treatment of acute lumbosacral radiculitis, thermal procedures are used, such as a "blue" lamp, solux, UHF, rubbing, light massage. Sometimes a combination of stretches and pressure along the spine can cause the disease to disappear as quickly as it appeared. Sometimes, in order to completely remove the pain, you need to hang on the door( or on a horizontal bar), gently turn your lower back to the left and right.
Treatment of a patient with chronic radiculitis consists of the following:
- Analgin 50% 1-2 ml with Novocaine( 0.5%, 3 ml) and Dimedrol( 1 ml) 2-3 times per day intramuscularly;
- vitamins B1 and B12 daily 15-20 days;
- preparations, calming the nervous system( bromides, valerian, etc.);
- iontophoresis with novocaine and analgin;
- currents of Bernard.
Of the tablets with radiculitis apply Brufen, Ibuprofen, Reopyrin, Diclofenac, Metindol, etc.
A good anesthetic effect is possessed by: bee and snake venom, Capsicum ointment, turpentine ointment, Finalgon and many others.
For patients with lumbosacral radiculitis and osteochondrosis, special beds are provided where stretching is used.
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Radiculitis or radiculopathy - inflammation of the nerve roots of the spinal cord.
Lumbar radiculitis is most common, since the nerve root, which is part of the sciatic nerve, is most often affected. There is an opinion that radiculitis is not a serious illness. However, any severe pain is always a disturbing signal.
When the back is hurting, the whole body suffers. A person loses sleep, he can not exercise, gradually losing muscle strength. The slightest movement hurts.
Lumbar radiculitis is the most dangerous form of radiculitis: it causes pains that prevent movement and completely disable a person.
This disease very quickly becomes chronic. Moreover, almost always sciatica causes sciatica - a lesion of the sciatic nerve. This means that to unbearable pain in the lower back joins the same pain in the leg.
Symptoms of lumbar sciatica
- Acute pain, lumbosatum
- Pain giving to the thigh
- Stiffness of the muscles of the back and legs
- Pain on the outer edge of the entire leg - to the toes of the foot
Complication of the
With each stage of development, the radiculitis increasingly affects the nerve roots. And gradually the part of the body with which the inflamed nerve is connected, loses sensitivity. As a result, the limb can be paralyzed.
How to treat sciatica
It is important to start treatment in time, otherwise radiculitis can develop into a chronic form. Any careless movement, infection or even stress will provoke a new attack of radiculitis.
Treatment of radiculitis is always individual, based on the patient's condition.
The task of drug treatment of radiculitis is to remove inflammation, reduce swelling and reduce pain.
There are many physiotherapeutic techniques that allow improving blood circulation in tissues adjacent to the spine, reduce pain, improve impulses along nerve fibers.
Back pain and sciatica: how to relieve back pain - Doctor-Bile
Back pain and sciatica. Do you want to know how to relieve pain in the lumbar with radiculitis for 1.5-2 minutes? Get an online consultation with Professor Kartavenko V. V.
Back pain, sciatica. For one and a half to two minutes, you can remove the pain in the lower back with radiculitis. So, what is radiculitis? Radiculitis comes from the Latin word radiculus, i.e."Spine".These are the most delicate, tenderest nerve bundles that pass or come out here, in this case, from the lumbar vertebrae. And the compression of these lumbar vertebrae, called protrusion, causes this very edema of these roots, which often causes painful pains in the lumbar region.
Exercise that will help you ease your suffering with radiculitis and back pain at home, the conditions of everyday life and even when you are in traffic jams like this. To do this, put the legs on the level of our shoulders and here's how to arrange our elbows: the left elbow near the left knee, and the right elbow near the right knee. Squeeze like this way, palms, take a sharp breath, exhale sharply and make a move to meet each other. Those.we squeeze our knees and at this moment we crush, we plant them in such a way as elbows.
With the correct execution of this exercise, you will feel instant relief, you will have a feeling of warmth in the waist. You will feel a lumbago on the back of the thighs, which will ease the condition not only in the lower back, but also in your hips.
And after a minute and two minutes you can stand up, stamp your foot and say: "Today I'm healthy! Farewell, sciatica! Farewell in the lower back! »
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- 2:26 1 taking care at home with lumbar and lumbosacral radiculitis. Relieve tension.
- 3:38 2 reception. Old reception with a pouch.
- 5:30 3 reception. Correct arrangement of the body.4 reception. Multi-needle roller.
- 7:46 5 reception. Double facial approach.
- 8:30 6 reception. Effects on the auricle.
- 9:40 7 reception. Treatment of ancient druids.
- 10:58 8 reception. Stone therapy with heated stones.
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Acute cervical radiculitis: treatment, symptoms
Treatment of acute cervical radiculitis is based not only on drug therapy, but also on physiotherapy. Correct, low-intensity therapeutic exercise, leading to the removal of muscle spasms, greatly facilitates the severity of the pain syndrome.
Thoracic radiculitis - treatment
Wellness session at the Moscow Theological Academy and Seminary. Phone of Dr. Popov: +7( 495) 507-71-85.
Source: NGNogov. Official and traditional medicine. The most detailed encyclopedia.- Moscow: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2012.
