Cervical osteoarthritis

Cervical osteoarthritis

Cervical facet osteoarthritis, sometimes called cervical facet joint syndrome, is a degenerative condition that causes pain and stiffness in the cervical, or neck, region of the spine.

The cervical spine includes the top seven levels of the spine, labeled C1 through C7.

There are two facet joints on either side of the back of each vertebra in the neck. These joints provide stability, while also enabling neck movements such as turning or nodding the head.

Cartilage lines each facet joint in the neck, and this cartilage is surrounded by a capsule filled with synovial fluid.

This synovial fluid helps lubricate the facet joint, enabling smooth movements of the joint complex.

In cervical facet osteoarthritis, this cartilage begins to degenerate, or break down.

The cartilage begins to thin and may even disappear completely, causing bone-on-bone friction of the facet joints in the neck.

This friction can lead to the development of osteophytes, or bone spurs.

If these osteophytes impinge on any cervical nerve roots, pain, weakness, or tingling may radiate along the path of the nerve into the arm and hand.

Cervical facet osteoarthritis may cause pain in the neck and upper back as well as the shoulders and between the shoulder blades.

It may also cause headaches, a form of radiated or referred pain, especially in the back of the head.

Patients with cervical osteoarthritis will often have tenderness or swelling over the site of the affected facet joints, as well as reduced range of motion in the neck.

What is Pain

What is Pain/Types of Pain Treated?

Pain is an uncomfortable feeling that tells you something may be wrong. It can be steady, throbbing, stabbing, aching, pinching, or described in many other ways. Sometimes, it’s just a nuisance, like a mild headache. Other times it can be debilitating.

Pain can bring about other physical symptoms, like nausea, dizziness, weakness or drowsiness. It can cause emotional effects like anger, depression, mood swings or irritability. Perhaps most significantly, it can change your lifestyle and impact your job, relationships and independence.

Pain is classified as either acute or chronic. Acute pain is usually severe and short-lived, and is often a signal that your body has been injured. Chronic pain can range from mild to severe, is present for long periods of time, and is often the result of a disease that may require ongoing treatment.

Currently, the best way to treat the pain is to manage the symptoms. If the source of your pain can’t be treated, or isn’t known, our pain medicine specialists can offer options for pain control.

At the Johns Hopkins Blaustein Pain Treatment Center, we provide treatment for the following types of pain:

• Low back pain
• Spinal stenosis
• Vertebral Compression Fractures
• Cervical and lumbar facet joint disease
• Sciatica/Radiculopathy ("pinched nerve")
• Sacroiliac joint disease
• Failed back surgery pain (FBSS) / Post-Laminectomy Neuropathic Pain
• Neuropathic (Nerve) pain
• Head pain / Occipital neuralgia (Scalp/head pain)
• Hip pain
• Intercostal neuralgia (Rib pain)
• Peripheral neuropathy (Diabetic nerve pain)
• Complex regional pain syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy -  RSD)
• Herniated discs and degenerative disc disease (discogenic pain)
• Neck pain
• Shoulder and knee arthritic pain (osteoparthritis)
• Myofascial (Muscular) pain
• Post surgical pain
• Cancer pain (pancreatic, colorectal, lung, breast, bone)
• Pain from peripheral vascular disease
• Anginal pain (chest pains)
• Post-herpetic neuralgia (shingles pain)
• Nerve entrapment syndromes
• Spastisticy related syndromes/ pain
• Spinal Cord Injury (central pain)
• Pelvic pain
• Thoracic outlet syndrome

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Loss of Hair

Loss of Hair - Beauty Tips

This is a very natural phenomenon and all of us do experience loss of hair. Too much of hair loss is a matter of concern. This usually happens after a long illness, extreme climates, too much of stress and bad eating or sleeping habits.

Tip 1:

Wash the hair with Tender Coconut water every other day for weeks.

Tip 2:

Add the paste of fresh Curry leaves to Shikakai powder and wash hair with this on a regular basis.

Tip 3:

Wash hair with coconut milk

Tip 4:

Dry some basil leaves and Margosa leaves. Add some Bay leaves and powder all 3 together. Add 1tspn of this powder to 50 ml. of water and apply for ½ an hour Wash.

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