spondylarthrosis

Osteoarthritis of the spine

Spondylarthrosis is a degenerative change of the joints in the spine. The small joints on the spine lie between the vertebrae and carry next to the intervertebral discs about a quarter of the load, which acts on the spine.

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spondylarthrosis
Synonyms
causes
complaints

Synonyms

Spondylarthrosis, spondylarthrosis deformans, vertebral joint arthrosis, facet arthrosis, facet joint syndrome, facet pain, vertebral joint wear.

causes

Mostly, spondylarthrosis is not diagnosed until the age of 50, when degenerative processes in our body progress anyway. In the case of a stronger expression, a poor quality of the structures in the joint, coupled with an inadequate load would be conceivable. A disturbed nutrient uptake in the organism can generally affect the quality of the cartilage. Similarly, there may be processes in the immediate vicinity of the vertebral joints, which ensure that there is no adequate quality of the articular cartilage.

complaints

Spondylarthrosis is often blamed for diagnosis by an imaging technique for back pain and low back pain. By marginal attachment to the affected vertebral joints, it can come to tangling of emerging nerves, which can also flank pain, sciatica, sciatic pain, a cervicobrachial syndrome or lumbalgia can be triggered. (Thorsten Fischer, Naturopath Osteopathy)

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