Osteoarthritis of the spine is to wear Osteoarticular structures as a result of misuse or the passage of years and is the main pathology of the spine because it affects virtually the entire population.
Emerging for 35 years and does not show symptoms. For that reason, experts recommend early diagnosis as the best preventive tool. This is one of the main conclusions of the Second Regional Conference of the Sociedad Canaria Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (COTCAN) held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and has concentrated seventy professionals in the field to address in depth the current state of spinal pathology, as reported by the Medical Association of Las Palmas.
Experts point out that over 65 suffering from stenosis (narrowing) of the lumbar canal and especially the female population in the developing idiopathic scoliosis are segments of the population most vulnerable to spinal pathologies.
Arthrosis can be early in the housewives, who do not perform any kind of sport with a sedentary life. Obesity is a clear risk factor. Working in positions appropriate and healthy, not forced to sit properly, not to stay too long on a computer without some kind of stretching exercises can prevent the development of many of these disorders, says most participants in the meeting professional.
According to the chairman of the organizing committee for the conference, Enrique Recarte is necessary to hold the meeting because “the trauma involved in the pathology of the spine are few and do a sub part of it because of its enormous complexity .
Therefore, in the opinion of the Head of Service of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery at the Hospital Materno Infantil, you need a conference like this topic to “deepen and make an update of the entire vertebral pathology.
Among the experts who participated in it included the presence of the president of the Spanish Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SECOT), Enric Cáceres, Dr. Jesús Burgos, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, creator alongside its partners in the system for Coplanar correct vertebral rotation in scoliosis, and Dr. José Luis González, president of the Spanish Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology Child.
The Second Conference COTCAN discussed in detail the main pathologies of the spine such as congenital malformations, although rare and poorly symptomatic, can lead to serious pictures including paraplegia.
However, spondylolisthesis are much more frequent and consist of a defect which keeps separate the posterior arch of the vertebral body. Congenital malformations are produced by a defect of ossification, or combinations of segmentation within the spondylolisthesis Congenital malformations are the most frequent and occurs in 6 to 9 percent of the population, but most are asymptomatic.
Lumbar spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the canal as a result of osteoarthritis or protrusion of the disc is the result of combining with osteoarthritis or degenerative disc protrusions and in some cases include any congenital malformation.
Osteoporosis of the spine is caused by loss of bone mass in the spine as a result of defects or hormonal deficiency states as in some, but only in some women with menopause. No way, menopause and osteoporosis are necessarily linked.
Bone loss can lead to crushing of the vertebral body with all its associated pathologies. The lumbar spinal canal stenosis occurs in 8 of every 10 people over 65 years and are called ‘viewpoints window’ for the need of every way to stop the pain.
Can occur and in fact occurs vertebral osteoporosis by bone loss and calcium of the vertebral bodies.
Whiplash syndrome is another topic to be discussed at the meeting and is the result of trauma that occurs when colliding with another car himself, behind, and if not is buckled up, and especially no headrest .
In addition, the College of Physicians of Las Palmas noted that fractures can occur and slipped discs in the spine as a result of trauma or destiempo or forced movements. The infection of the column deserves a separate study by the seriousness that can sometimes be the case with tuberculous spondylitis or discitis child.
Tumors affecting the spine may be benign and are most common in children and especially metastatic cancers in other primitive bodies. Primitive malignant tumors of the spine are rare.