Cervical migraine. Symptoms and treatment, prevention and effective techniques for alleviating symptoms!

The brain is the most sensitive organ of a person to the problems of blood supply. As soon as the situation of oxygen starvation of cells occurs, an alarm is immediately given in the form of pain. Blood supply is disturbed in two blood vessels.

1. The most important suppliers of blood to the brain are carotid arteries, providing up to 85% of its needs. Pathological changes are the cause of the appearance of headaches. It is their condition that traditionally attracts attention in the first place.
2. The problem is in the arteries located in the cervical spine. They account for up to 30% of the total blood supply, oxygen enters the posterior parts of the brain.

The defeat of the arteries and, as a consequence, the disruption of the physiological blood supply of the brain causes periodic or prolonged headaches. Science identifies two causes of arterial damage, depending on them, a scheme for treating the patient is being developed.

Nevertebrogennyecauses of

. Blood vessel problems are not associated with disorders of the vertebral discs. Most often these can be congenital anomalies, which cause a decrease in the lumen of the vessels or atherosclerosis. Occur relatively rare, an independent value during the disease is insignificant. Painful sensations in most cases appear due to simultaneous exposure and other causes.

Vertebrogenic causes of

These phenomena are more often the cause of pain, the violation of blood supply to brain cells arises from pathologies of vertebral discs that prevent normal blood flow in the arteries. As a rule, arise due to improper treatment or complete absence of such during diseases of the cervical spine( osteochondrosis).At first, the instability of the position of the vertebrae and the formation of processes on them are an irritating factor. With the passage of time and with the complication of the disease, normal blood supply is disturbed by the narrowing of the lumen of the vessels.

How to diagnose the neck migraine

itself There is a simple test, with the help of answers to his questions you can be most likely to know about the presence of the disease. In any case, a visit to a doctor will be very useful, only he can prescribe the most effective treatment after a comprehensive diagnosis. When should I worry?

1. If at least once in a lifetime my head hurt badly. At first glance, the malaise did not have any obvious reasons.
   

   Burning headache

2. In addition to the head, the ear or eye hurts. Symptoms of nausea or vomiting are observed periodically.
   

   Pain gives in the eye, ear, may be observed nausea

3. Pain was in the half of the head, usual medicinal pain medications( analgesics) did not work.
   

   Pain in the half of the head

The presence of such symptoms indicates that the disease is likely to be present, in order to establish a more accurate diagnosis and develop a treatment regimen, it is necessary to go to a medical institution.

Symptoms of cervical migraine

When a severe attack begins, there is a feeling of moving pain to other parts of the head: in the eye and temples, to the forehead or ear. There may be dizziness, the vestibular apparatus is malfunctioning, sight and hearing deviate from the usual parameters. In the most difficult cases, the patient may lose consciousness. The pain is constant, sometimes pulsating and burning. Most often, painful sensations are localized on the one hand. As a result of lowering the amount of oxygen, the neck hurts.

The neck turns painfully, the amplitude is limited, vertebra cracking is heard, some patients feel sick, a deafening noise or ringing appears in the ears, often the sounds are synchronized with the pulse. If the head rises, then at this time the artery moves into the narrow area of ​​the hole in the vertebra, the patency of the blood becomes even more complicated, dizziness arises. And during the disease with atherosclerosis, the same sensations arise if the head is tilted downward - the artery contracts in the muscle tissues of the neck. Before your eyes fleeing flies, the objects are twofold, the shroud is visible. The sensation of a foreign body can appear in the throat, swallowing is difficult.

Complex manifestations of

1. disease The patient is conscious, but falls. After a short time can independently rise to his feet.
2. In the unconscious state the patient is 20-30min. After the end of the attack begins to slowly come to, but long feels a general weakness.

Medical diagnosis of the disease

The main rule, it is strictly prohibited to proceed to treatment if there is no confidence in the correctness of the diagnosis. You should know that doctors share the so-called true and cervical migraines.

These are various diseases that require completely different approaches in the treatment technique. The reason for the true migraine is an excessive expansion of the cerebral vessels, at which point they lose the ability to contract. Consequence - the expansion of the venous plexus of the brain envelopes and severe pain. A large excess of blood in the dilated vessels can be treated as a cerebral edema with all the negative consequences. The cause of cervical migraine in malnutrition of the brain due to impaired arterial patency. Especially difficult to treat and diagnosed cases where migraines are simultaneously caused by two reasons.

If sympathetic plexuses of vertebral arteries are affected, then paramnesia and pain unilaterally seize the face, teeth, tongue, throat. The ailment causes disturbances in the vestibular apparatus - staggering begins when walking or standing, the feet fall down. Nausea, noise and ringing in the ears occur periodically. Changing the spatial position of the head intensifies the symptomatology, but the diseased man can find the position of the head, in which it becomes much easier.

Unfortunately, many physicians focus on the condition of carotid arteries, while vertebral diagnosis is superficial. If the arteries are inspected, then this is done superficially in the initial and final segments, and not over their entire length. During the examination, functional tests are taken extremely rarely. This leads to the conclusion that the conclusion about the pathology of the vertebral blood vessels is made taking into account only indirect data, the level and causes of compression are not studied. During the onset of symptoms of the disease, only specialized doctors should be consulted.

The main diagnostic method is ultrasound dopplerography of cerebral vessels.

Traditional Treatment Methods

The main goal of treatment procedures is the restoration of an adequate flow of blood in the vertebral arteries, the removal of the causes causing a spasm of the smooth muscles of the vessels and the narrowing of their lumen. During the treatment, reflexotherapy, vascular therapy, magnetotherapy, pharmacopuncture and therapeutic gymnastics are used. If necessary, antidepressants and anti-inflammatory drugs may be prescribed.

A wide range of methods used is caused by a wide variety of clinical manifestations of the disease. Optimal cervical migraine therapy includes several directions, taking into account the cause and stage of the disease.

Therapy	Description	Illustration
Anti-inflammatory and decongestant therapy.	The most significant mechanism for the onset of compression syndrome is edema due to mechanical compression of the vessels. Compression of veins in the bone channel in pathogenesis is similar to arterial - developing disturbances of the functionality of veins become a secondary cause of arterial compression, which leads to mutual protection of stagnant phenomena and secondary edema. In this regard, treatment is recommended to begin with the fight with the detected pathological phenomena. Used drugs that affect the arterial and venous disgamy: trokserutin, diosmin, ginkgo-biloba and anti-inflammatory non-steroid drugs.	Troxerutin
Elimination of hemodynamic abnormalities.	Symptomatic is observed in 100% of patients, carotid and vertebrobasilar blood vessels are included. Patterns of treatment are selected individually for each patient, aimed at improving cerebrovascular activity. Pentoxifylline, vinpocetine, vincamine, instenon, nicergoline are used.	Nicergoline
Neuroprotective therapy.	Compensation of energy deficit of neurons and their protection against permanent damaging factors is achieved through the use of neuroprotectors. Especially positive results are achieved in patients with organic stages of the disease. Due to drugs, it is possible to prevent the transformation of the initial stage of deformation into persistent pathologies. For these purposes, citicoline, actovegin, gliatin is used. In severe cases, preparations of complex effects may be prescribed: cerebrolysin, piracetam, mexidol.	Piracetam
Symptomatic therapy.	Eliminates sharp exacerbations of the course of the disease, relieves pain. Appointed tolperisone, betagistin, drotaverine, sumatriptan.	Drotaverin
Effects on the causes of mechanical compression of blood vessels.	In the most difficult cases, surgical removal of osteophytes and uncovertebral outgrowths can be prescribed. Much attention is paid to manual therapy, massage and therapeutic gymnastics. The complex of exercises is developed by a professional medical worker.	Manual therapy
Rehabilitation therapy.	Consists of physiotherapy, acupuncture. Positive results are observed after visiting special sanatoria and systematic implementation of a complex of therapeutic gymnastics.	Physiotherapy

The effectiveness of treatment depends on the correctness and timeliness of the diagnosis, the desire and persistence of the patient and the qualification of the attending physician.

Therapeutic exercises for cervical migraine

The complexity of the exercises and the number of repetitions is adjusted depending on the age of the patient and the stage of development of pathology. The purpose of the exercises is to strengthen the muscles of the neck and relieve the load on the vertebrae. Due to this, the compression of blood vessels and nerve endings is significantly reduced. Manual therapy and massage allow you to quickly achieve positive dynamics only under one condition - all actions are performed by a professional doctor. Otherwise, extremely unpleasant complications can occur.

You can practice therapeutic gymnastics only after removing the pain syndromes and transferring the disease to the stage of remission.

1. The back is as flat as possible. Trying to stretch your neck up, you can help yourself with your hands. Efforts of medium intensity. At first, crackling can be heard, this is a normal phenomenon, indicating the removal of the block in the vertebrae of the neck. Repeat up to ten times.
2. In the sitting position, slowly tilt the head to the left / right, do ten repetitions in each direction. The last two or three repetitions to do with effort, for this purpose one by one, hold the head in one hand.
3. Tilt head forward / back, sitting position. Repeat effortlessly ten times. Then rested in the face with the palms of both hands and tilt the head with a resistance force. Repeat 5-10 times.
4. With the palms of your hands perform stroking your neck. The movements are symmetrical, directed from the head to the shoulders. In the neck, a feeling of warmth should appear.
5. The ribs of the palms make horizontal movements on the back of the neck.

Efforts to increase gradually as the muscle tone of the neck is restored, do not allow the appearance of painful sensations. The main condition for the effectiveness of exercise therapy is consistency. Strengthened muscles have a property in the absence of loads with time to regenerate again, the disease can return.

Prevention of the disease

A sedentary lifestyle, lack of movement, a deformed posture, a habit of slouching and trauma are the main causes of the development of the disease.

The vertebral muscular corset should always be maintained in proper physical form. With sedentary work, you must constantly do morning exercises.

Obesity and malnutrition are the second reasons for the negative consequences.

Patients should always remember that the prevention of disease is much more effective and less painful than treating it. In case of problems, the diagnosis should be as soon as possible and proceed with their comprehensive treatment. Only medications can achieve only a temporary improvement in the state of health, without physical exercise and proper nutrition, a recurrence will inevitably occur in a more complex form.

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