Many people know what chondrosis is and how its symptoms manifest. The disease causes pain in the lower back, neck, lower back. They prevent you from turning, bending, walking. In a broad sense, the term "osteochondrosis" has become widespread in the countries of the former Union; foreign medicine uses the definition of "chondropathy" - a serious disease of the spine.
Chondrosis is divided into several types, depending on which part of the spine is affected and why: lumbago, radiculopathy, spondylolisthesis, spondylosis, thoracalgia, cervicalgia, sciatica, etc. Back pains cause temporary disability, cause a person to stop any activity, and take first positions in the number of sick leave.
Despite the many differences in the causes of diseases and localizations, they are traditionally united by the general term osteochondrosis. Chondrosis treatment has some general recommendations. In addition to the methods of traditional medicine, the effectiveness of using folk remedies, which appeared long before modern methods of combating the disease, is also not ruled out.
The main objective of any treatment is to relieve pain and prevent its recurrence.
Performing the treatment of chondrosis, traditional medicine advises the use of compresses, rubbing, baths with healthy herbs and mummies. For the treatment and prevention of diseases of the spine, doctors recommend swimming and therapeutic exercises (walking, yoga, cycling).
Physical therapy should be practiced in the absence of exacerbation, classes are unacceptable in the presence of pain. Massage and water treatments help relieve tension and strengthen muscles. Most often, it is muscle tension itself that is perceived as pain, strengthens it and leads to the appearance of unbearable sensations in the spine.
Using folk remedies, the treatment of chondrosis allows you to calm the pain and permanently drive the disease into a corner.
Several rubbing recipes to make chondrosis treatment more effective.
For use, externally make a tincture of barberry root. For this, 100 grams of crushed root are taken on a glass of alcohol. The composition is insisted for ten days at room temperature, shaking daily. Ready tincture is used for rubbing the back with pain.
Reciprocal roots are also used, which are crushed into pieces no longer than 1 centimeter. Half a liter of alcohol is taken on 50 grams of roots and insisted for at least 12 days. After wringing out the resulting solution, apply compresses and rub the back until the pain stops. Cinderella tincture for diseases of the supporting apparatus is also taken orally, daily, washed down with infusion or tea from lingonberry leaves. The course of therapy lasts 2.5-3 months.
Treatment of hodrosis is done through baths with medicinal herbs, as well as making wraps. Contrast showers and baths have a therapeutic effect when applied outside the acute stage. They have a hardening effect and are involved in increasing the body's resistance to exacerbations of osteochondrosis. Contrast herbal and salt baths have a double benefit due to the presence of therapeutic components.
A mustard bath has a good effect, which eliminates sharp pain in the cervical and lumbar spine. Using a blender or other method, dilute 200 grams of mustard powder in warm water until a homogeneous mass is added to which a couple drops of peppermint essential, eucalyptus or fir oil are added. The resulting composition is poured into a hot bath, which takes about 15 minutes. After the procedure is completed, the mustard is washed off the body with a shower, rubbed on the skin with a dry towel, put on warm linen and socks and lie under a warm blanket. The pain should go away.