Modern ideas about the treatment and diagnosis of cervicalgia

Today, cervicalgia ranks fourth among the causes of disability. Pain is the leading clinical symptom that is the main cause of seeking medical help. Currently, there is a variety of different methods of treatment and diagnosis of this problem, which indicates the lack of common approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of these patients and therefore often, due to inadequate diagnosis, the patient is prescribed a number of conservative treatment methods that can aggravate the course of the disease. Our study includes a structural analysis of data from domestic and foreign literature in order to evaluate modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of cervicalgia. During the study, various methods of diagnosis of degenerative-dystrophic diseases of the cervical spine (including the most common syndrome of the anterior and posterior scalene muscle (sclenus syndrome)) were studied. In order to assess biomechanical and functional changes in the cervical spine, we performed postural digital radiography and MRI. As a result of the research it was found that the changes are functional. Various methods of treating syndromes were also widely studied. Conservative treatment methods such as: medication, physiotherapy, manual therapy, therapeutic massage, and others are widespread. And surgical treatment is necessary only in 15-20% of cases.