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Test of Cervicoartrosis
What should the doctor perform scans?
- You must explore the mobility of the neck, which can be reduced, sometimes snapping feeling.
- You should explore the role of both shoulders.
- Must assess the strength, sensation of skin and tendon reflexes in all four extremities. If symptoms of neurological damage, evaluate, and if any, to detect hidden injury still very incipient.
- Must examine the rest of the joints, looking for signs osteoarthritic (deformed or stiff fingers, knees are bowing). Read the rest of this entry »
Symptoms of Cervicoartrosis
What are the symptoms?
In most cases it is painless, and only discovered on radiographs in screening, or because of problems in the chest, shoulders or head.
When states can cause two problems:
- Derived from its joint destruction
- Limitation of neck mobility, cracks, and neck pain. The pain is caused by various reasons, including the reflex contraction of neck muscles and the suffering of damaged joints. Read the rest of this entry »
Cervicoartrosis: Osteoarthritis of The Cervical Spine
What is cervicoarthrosis?
The cervicoarthrosis is the location of osteoarthritis in the cervical spine and is probably the most common cause of cervical spinal pain (cervical pain). Its frequency is large, to appreciate on radiographs 75% of patients over 40 years. But neck pain is attributed to arthritis when other diseases are ruled out.
The vertebrae are the bones we have in the back, and are arranged one above the other forming the “backbone”. Latin for cervical neck, hence the vertebrae of the neck region, are called “cervical”.
Each vertebra articulates with the neighbor, ie, forms with it a kind of hinge that allows movement back and neck in this case.
In the joints of the arms and legs, the contact surfaces of the hinge is of a material called articular cartilage, which acts as a shock absorber and friction with the movements. Read the rest of this entry »
How to nourish the bones
Nutrition for bones. Muscles and bones in the skeleton are active and living tissue, over the life of this tissue is constantly renewed and repaired to keep us strong and vigorous. To do this properly, your body needs a healthy combination of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients.
How to nourish the bones Without adequate nutrition, bones, muscles and joints can deteriorate rapidly. Food provides the fuel the body needs to activate muscles and keep in repair and tissue growth. Dietary proteins are broken down into amino acids and are used to build bone, cartilage and muscle. Another set of vitamins and minerals are vital for building healthy bones and muscles.
Healthy diet for your bones
Dairy
- Try to eat 3 to 4 servings of dairy a day.
- Choose alternatives reduced or low fat, as fat or skim milk. It can be hard to get enough calcium without eating dairy, you can try supplements or foods fortified with calcium.
- One serving equals 250 ml of milk, 1 small container of yogurt, or 30 g of cheese.
Physical exercise, an ally of your bones
Sport is a great ally for your bones, and even more if you practice outdoors. In this article we explain the benefits that physical exercise is for your bone health. Recalls complement these activities with a healthy diet, complete and balanced.
1. The bones of athletes
Benefits. Exercise is a good tool to strengthen our bones. Sport is the best ally of the bones. Physical activity causes muscle contraction which promotes calcium deposition in bone and improves blood circulation, which brings more nutrients to the bone.
The best way to prevent bone fractures is sports start in adolescence, when they reach their maximum bone density. If you get past the “awkward age, you still have time to strengthen your bones and prevent retirement plaster, by constant exercise and specific to your bones.
If you comb gray hair, you should not cope “on the couch to prevent fractures, has been to stay on feet less than 4 hours and practice less than 20 minutes a day of moderate exercise (just walking) are risk factors.
The latest medical research shows that specific exercises with weights can increase bone density in older people and prevent bone fragility with symptoms of osteoporosis.
Just as your muscles atrophy when not working with exercise, the bones deteriorate when you stop moving. To achieve strong bones, you have to work on muscle strength. The simple fact of living under the force of gravity, promotes calcification.
Bone diseases
By their nature, bone, and connective tissue support rigid and soft tissues of the body, is subject to risk factors that may condition its stability and functional capacity.
1. The origin of the pathologies
There are metabolic disorders which affect bone health throughout our lives, most of which are caused by the increased number and activity of osteoclasts (bone tissue removed), which exceeds the capacity to compensate for the osteoblasts (bone forming cells).
Shares of many of the diseases that affect adults, such as osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis, are either a result of abnormal metabolism and bone remodeling, or the result of a chronic inflammatory process affecting the structure and function of bone.
Recent studies suggest that the onset and severity of these pathologies may be delayed or lessened if bone modeling is optimized during the early phases of life or if diets are supplemented adequately with certain nutrients that reduce the concentration of factors that alter skeletal health .
2. Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is most common bone disease, manifested in 40% of Spanish women and 11% of men over 70 years. It is characterized by loss of bone mass, microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue and increased fracture risk.
The relative impact of environmental and genetic factors in osteoporosis is not well defined: Epidemiological studies suggest that environmental factor is the most decisive, while studies on bone mass among brothers (twins) validate the role of genetic factors . With the rapid advancement of the Human Genome Project and biotechnology, will be possible to evaluate new genes involved in osteoporosis and fracture risk calculated for each individual in the context of environmental influences.
What is the bone?
The human skeleton consists of 206 bones, not counting the teeth. The bone is formed by a living tissue that forms the human skeleton next to the cartilage. Numerous functions that are detailed in the following article.
1. Key Features
Bones. The human skeleton consists of 206 bones, not counting the teeth. The bone is formed by a living tissue that forms the human skeleton next to the cartilage. Bone tissue has three basic components: mineral, organic matrix and bone cells.
Bone provides shape and support the body, protect internal organs against trauma, provides locomotion and acts as a storage place of minerals, especially calcium and phosphorus, which in turn can be released to maintain fluid balance body. It also provides bone marrow is essential for the development and storage of blood cells.
The human skeleton consists of 206 bones, not counting the teeth: 80 axial bones which include the bones of the head, face, hyoid, auditory, trunk, ribs and sternum, and 126 appendicular bones, including those of arms, shoulders, wrists, hands, legs, hips, ankles and feet.
There are two types of bone:
- Cortical or compact. It forms the outer layer and hardest bones, but most are in the diaphyseal (middle part) of long bones. Accounts for 80% of bone mass. Provides protection, support and resists the efforts that occur in the movements.
- Trabecular or spongy. Forms the major part of the vertebral body, the epiphyses (ends) of long bones and is present elsewhere. It consists of a network called lamellae arranged in trabeculae, within each trabecula cells are directly receiving nutrients from the blood flowing through the marrow cavities. It is the most active metabolic skeleton.