Pain

The pain spread, the entire length of the spine or in the projection of the affected department, is characterized by persistent, worse after prolonged rest, depends on weather conditions. The pain is often associated with stiffness in the affected department, and was more pronounced in the morning. Radicular syndrome can develop when the infringement roots of spinal nerves as a result of convergence of bodies vertebrae. With the progression of the disease is spinal deformity and patient posture change: forming a 'supplicant posture' or 'doskoobraznaya back. " Next to the intervertebral osteochondrosis in prevalence may be called deforming osteoarthritis - a chronic, slowly progressive disease in which degenerative and dystrophic changes occur in the hyaline cartilage of the mismatch stress experienced by cartilage, and its ability to resist her. This discrepancy is caused by either excessive load on the cartilage (with excess body weight, especially professional - porters professional athletes), or functional deficiency of the cartilage at the lesions of the synovial joint (in charge of nutrition of hyaline cartilage), breach of trophic cartilage (with some metabolic diseases, endocrine, neurological and occupational diseases in which the pathological process involved joints).

At the beginning of the disease affects the joints, usually large support: the knee and hip - a process usually asymmetrical. Joint pain occur when excessive load on it, amplified by the end of the day. At rest, there is no pain. In the first stage of the disease joint appearance is unchanged. With the progression of disease and the development of synovitis (inflammation of the synovial joint) pain is constant, the joint may be swollen, hot and painful on palpation.

In the course of the disease develops deformity of the joint. In Unlike rheumatoid arthritis (see below) there is no morning stiffness, although after a prolonged stay at rest can be some stiffness in the joints. Symptoms of osteoarthritis increases in the evening, and rheumatoid arthritis symptoms maximum - in the morning.