The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by spondylosis:
Cardiovascular system (I00-I99).
- Compression of blood vessels
Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).
- Chronic back pain
- Limited mobility
- Facet syndrome (synonym: facet joint syndrome); this shows a pseudoradicular pain symptomatology (pain in which the nerve itself is not impaired in its function), which is usually caused by chronic irritation of the so-called facet joints (zygapophyseal joints; intervertebral joints: small, paired joints that exist between the articular processes (Processus articularis) of adjacent vertebrae and ensure the mobility of the spine). The cause of facet syndrome here is a spondylarthrosis (vertebral joint arthrosis).
- Spondylodesis (surgical stiffening of the spine).
- Cervicobrachial syndrome (synonym: shoulder-arm syndrome) – pain in the neck, shoulder girdle and upper extremities. The cause is often the compression and irritation of spinal nerves (spinal cord nerves) of the cervical spine; most common causes are myofascial complaints (pain in the musculoskeletal system, which do not originate from joints, periosteum, muscle diseases or other neurological diseases), for example, by myogelosis (muscle hardening) or muscle imbalance of the cervical spine.
Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).
- Myelopathy – changes in the spinal cord.
- Nerve compression
- Radiculitis (inflammation of the nerve root)
- Spinal stenosis – narrowing of the spinal canal.
