In recent years, "CERC HERNIA" Disease is frequently revealed as a reason for complaints of unknown cause...
Taking into consideration patient complaints, the evaluation and diagnosis criteria of cervical disc herniation are expanding day by day.
And “ Was Cervical Disc Herniation such a Common Disease? The question is more frequently encountered.
What is Cervical Disc Herniation?
Today, you may have come across hundreds of programs and articles about what Cervical Disc Herniation is, both in print and oral media. Additionally, when you ask this question to any internet search engine, you will come across definitions of what cervical disc herniation is on tens of thousands of sites. In fact, when describing this disease, it is necessary to clearly explain what it is not, rather than what it is.
Cervical Disc Herniation is not a simple disease that causes pain in our body.
It is at least as valuable and vital as our Brain. It threatens the organ we call the Spinal Cord...
Injury to the threatened Spinal Cord, in the simplest terms, results in Paralysis and/or Death.
And Cervical Herniation alone damages our Spinal Cord, resulting in death and permanent paralysis. ...
The main purpose of the treatment of Cervical Hernia is not to treat the hernia but to save the Spinal Cord and Nerve fibers from damage.
What does our spinal cord do?:
Our brain is like the Sultan of our body.
The brain manages and maintains all our body functions... The most valuable organ of our body is our Brain. .
The first duty of all our organs is to keep them healthy and alive. If necessary, the organs can sacrifice themselves for the health of our brain...
Because, there is no point in the functioning of other organs without the brain.
Even if a person's kidneys, liver and even his heart are functioning, when his brain dies, his life is considered to have ended medically, and this is called 'BRAIN DEATH' in Medicine...
Here is the Spinal Cord, with a beautiful analogy, this Sultan's ( It is the only and indispensable vizier of our brain.
The brain transmits the orders it sends to all body organs directly or indirectly through the spinal cord (vizier). And it is informed about the status of all organs through it.
The structure and working mechanism of the spinal cord may be at least as complex as, or even more complex than, our brain. So much so that even today, the working mechanism of the Spinal Cord, its functions and exactly what it does have not yet been discovered. In this respect, the Spinal Cord is one of the most valuable but little-known organs of the body.
Cervical disc herniation is a disease that directly threatens the Spinal Cord and may cause irreparable damage to the Spinal Cord.
This is why its diagnosis and treatment are essential. It must be approached seriously. Considering Cervical Disc Herniation only as a painful disease and assuming that the disease goes away when the pain stops is the most serious mistake that can be made in this disease...
In our country, especially in the last 30 years, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) method has developed and has been widely used for diagnostic purposes. It has revealed how common the 'Cervical Disc Disc' disease is in society. And every day, new information and scientific study results are published about what kind of complaints this common disease can cause in people and what kind of damage it can cause.
In the past, when it was called "CERCULAR HERNIA", doctors had to use a certain information to diagnose it. The template was sufficient.
“CERC HERNIA” from the old perspective:
- Neck pain, back pain, shoulder, arm and hand pain. It consisted of a disease that caused,
-It caused numbness in the arms and fingers,
-It caused weakness in the arms, hands, and fingers, depending on its severity.
However, since the information about the disease was very new, "Cervical Disc Herniation" was not a diagnosis frequently made, even in patients who applied with these complaints.
EVEN RECENTLY, THE DIAGNOSIS MADE ON CERVICAL HERNIA PATIENTS WERE RECORDED UNDER THE NAMES BELOW;
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-Myalgia (which means "muscle pain", not a disease name),
-Fibromyalgia (It means damage to the muscles that remain contracted for a long time.)
-Muscular rheumatism, (It is not in medical books. It can be used as the bad Turkish name of some rheumatic diseases.)
-Tennis elbow, (This disease, which has some similar complaints, is often confused with cervical disc herniation.)
-Nerve end inflammation (It is a word that is not found in any medical book and was created by physicians in daily polyclinic life. )
- Calcification!.. (There is no such disease. There is no mention of a disease called "CALCIFICATION" in any Medical Book. Calcification is a word with a known name. It consists of the disease caused and the body's response to this disease. For example, if a bone is broken, the body creates calcification to repair the fracture. It connects the broken ends with lime tissue. The disease is a "Bone Fracture" Healing tissue is provided by lime (Calcification). In some very rare diseases, the body's Unnecessary (abnormal) calcification occurs in various organs. These diseases are known by their names and are rare.)
-Hidden Rheumatism (The physician who makes a preliminary diagnosis of "Rheumatism" in the patient with pain in the neck, back, arm, hand, is the cause of these pains as Cervical Disc Herniation). If he cannot understand that it has developed with rheumatism, and moreover, if the Rheumatism tests come back normal, he makes this diagnosis.Even if the tests say there is NO Rheumatism, the diagnosis is "Hidden Rheumatism"
However, nowadays, such erroneous and medically irrelevant diagnoses are being made less and less in patients with Cervical Disc Herniation. Patient grievances and injuries due to spinal cord damage are less common.
Now in Turkey, the first disease that comes to mind in patients who consult a physician with complaints of neck pain, back pain, and pain radiating from the shoulder to the arm is "NECK HERNIA". And these patients definitely undergo MRI to confirm the diagnosis.
BUT!…
AS WE SAID BEFORE; Cervical disc disc hernia does not only cause pain and numbness in the neck, back and arms... IT MAY BE A NECK HERNIA!…
-HEADACHE: (It is usually in the form of a crisis. It starts from the nape of the neck, behind the right or left ear, and may spread towards the back of the eye or forehead. It is confused with Migraine because it is a semi-headache. It may be mistaken for a tension-type headache because it increases with stress)
- DIZZINESS: (Actually, it is a balance disorder. It is expressed by the patient as slipping, stepping into a void, being pushed by someone, or walking like a drunk.)
-PLAY BLOOD PRESSURE MIND: (Low blood pressure at the beginning of cervical disc herniation, turns into meaningless 1-2 day high blood pressure attacks as the disease progresses. If the diagnosis cannot be made and the cervical disc herniation progresses, it turns into permanent high blood pressure.) It is difficult to decide which is the cause of the dryness.)
-EXCITEMENT: (The patient states that he/she panics quickly, experiences anxiety attacks as if he/she is about to receive bad news, and more rarely, fear of death. This causes cervical disc herniation patients to be misdiagnosed as "Panic Attacks and Depression".)
- FORGETTENNESS: (A patient with Cervical Disc Disorder may complain of "forgetfulness". In fact, the problem is lack of concentration. Studies are continuing on the possibility of the spinal cord's involvement in recent memory.)
-SWEATING DISORDER: (Features in the neck and head area It is in the form of excessive sweating that increases at night. Not uncommonly, the patient may also talk about regional sweating changes in his body, "It seems like my right side is sweating a lot."
- SLOW FUNCTION OF THE INTESTINES:( It is a common complaint in patients with advanced cervical disc herniation without any other reason. .)
-DRY MOUTH: (It is a common complaint in patients with cervical disc herniation without any other reason.
Nowadays, physicians who closely follow the developments in medicine identify the cause as a particular cause. "cervical disc hernia" is the primary diagnosis for unknown complaints of headache and dizziness.
The results of new scientific research and studies that have been conducted and will be conducted will increase our knowledge about this disease.
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