What do you feel when you meet an elderly man with a cane in the street? Probably sympathy, but also the belief that you will not exactly become like that!
No young energetic person positions his old age with sickness and lameness, rather imagination draws a youthful smiling pensioner who travels the world on healthy legs and with a snow-white smile, as in a photo in foreign magazines.
But illnesses are a tricky thing. And especially joint diseases. Creeping unnoticed, various ailments quietly destroy and deform the joints, manifesting in one beautiful morning with pain and the inability to move normally.
Among all joint pathologies, judging by the number of requests for medical help, knee arthrosis( gonarthrosis, osteoarthrosis of the knee joint) is leading. According to statistics, suffers from every fifth inhabitant of the planet at the age of older than 40 years , moreover, this woman "loves" more than men.
What is arthrosis of the knee joint and is it possible to avoid it? Let's start with the definition of the disease.
May be primary and secondary, i.e., occur against a background of other diseases.
Contents of the article
- Reasons for arthrosis of the knee joint.
- How does arthrosis develop?
- Symptoms of 1st degree arthrosis of the knee joint.
- How does the 2nd degree of the disease manifest itself?
- 3 degree of arthrosis is a synonym for disability?
- Tactics for the treatment of arthrosis of the knee joint.
- Medication.
- Traditional medicine and gonarthrosis.
- How to prevent the development of gonarthrosis - preventive measures.
- What exercises facilitate the flow of arthrosis? A complex of exercises LFK on video.
Reasons for arthrosis of the knee joint.
The most common gonarthrosis is due to:
- Traumatic injuries of the knee joint
- Excessive body weight
- Excessive physical activity, including with professional sports
- Previous diseases( usually arthritis of different etiology)
- Weak ligamentous apparatus
- Metabolic disorders
SoIt does not hurt to know the main causes of cervical osteochondrosis in order to prevent the development of this disease in yourself and your loved ones. About gymnastics of exercise therapy for cervical osteochondrosis, find out everything in this article.
How does arthrosis develop?
Osteoarthritis of the knee joint is divided into 1, 2 and 3 degrees. Let us consider in more detail the distinguishing features.
Symptoms of 1st degree arthrosis of the knee joint.
For the first time, gonarthrosis manifests itself as a pain that occurs when walking on a ladder. A person feels discomfort in the knee joint area, a pain that makes it difficult to descend the stairs. In other situations, pain almost does not arise and therefore the patient safely forgets about it or undertakes some of its own medical measures, entirely trusting the advice of friends who "also had it".
is the periodicity of the pain and postpones the visit to the polyclinic for later, which leads to the transition of the disease to a more serious, 2nd degree.
How does the 2nd degree of the disease manifest itself?
Gonarthrosis on the photo
2 degree of gonarthrosis is characterized not only by severe pain, but also by the limitation of mobility in the joint. Pain occurs more often, not only with exercise, but also in a calm state. The patient becomes it is difficult to bend and unbend the knee , while moving in the joint, a characteristic crunch is heard.
At visual examination, there is swelling of the joint, a slight deformation of the joint. It is the patients with the 2nd degree of gonarthrosis who are patients of the polyclinic, unable to cope with the painful pains themselves and, suffering from the limitation of mobility, they turn to the doctor.
3 degree of arthrosis is a synonym for disability?
3 degree of arthrosis of the knee joint is characterized by persistent severe pain in the joint and loss of its mobility. X-ray examination shows dystrophic changes in the cartilaginous tissue, pronounced joint deformation. Develops the so-called deforming arthrosis.
Arthritic pains have a habit of intensifying at night, becoming most intense in the pre-morning hours.
Patient with a 3 degree of arthrosis walking can only with the help of a cane, remember our old man from the entry? It's him.
Tactics for the treatment of arthrosis of the knee joint.
The therapeutic process for arthrosis is a long-term matter, it requires the patient's perseverance and patience. The main principles of gonarthrosis treatment can be called
- Systematicity
- Comprehensive approach
Arthrosis should be treated without fail under the guidance of a physician. It is he who should give you recommendations how and what to treat the disease, which must be observed very carefully. It is possible to add to medical appointments and folk methods, but only after your attending physician approves them.
The beginning of treatment of gonarthrosis, like any other disease, begins with the organization of a sparing regimen. With gonarthrosis, a gentle regimen is created for the patient's joint. The maximum exclusion of physical activity, long walking. In the diet should limit the consumption of salt, sweets, fatty foods, including in the diet more fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins.
Medication.
1. For the withdrawal of the pain syndrome, preparations of the group of analgesics, antispasmodics are prescribed:
- Ketorol
- Mydocalm
- Nimesulide
2. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are very popular:
- Diclofenac
- L-lysinic acid
- Indomethacin
- Piroxicam and many others.
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Knee( bandage)
Drugs in this group are not prescribed for long courses because of the abundance of side effects. Therefore, long-acting tablets or preparations in injections and injections are more often used for treatment. NSAIDs alleviate the condition of patients, but do not eliminate the causes of gonarthrosis. This mission is entrusted to medical science by another group of drugs - chondroprotectors.
3. Chondroprotectors include:
- Chondrosamine
- Arcoxia
- Alflutop
- Teraflex
- Structum
The action of these drugs is based on the restoration of normal production of synovial fluid and damaged cartilage tissue. The drugs are very effective in treating 1 and 2 degrees of gonarthrosis.
4. Healing ointments, gels, creams. They are applied topically, used for grinding and compressing. In the pharmacy network a huge assortment of drugs of this group is presented, when buying it is necessary to be guided not by advertising popularity of this or that ointment, but by the recommendations of a specialist.
Ozokeritic applications on the knee joint
5. In case of exacerbation of the disease, not only loads, but also massages and physiotherapy procedures are excluded. They can not be used in an acute period because of the increased pain syndrome. As soon as the pain subsides, massages, exercise therapy, physiotherapy methods must necessarily be attached to medical treatment.
The following procedures are well proven for the treatment of gonarthrosis:
- Laser
- CMT
- Electrophoresis
- Magnetotherapy
- Ozokerite
Traditional medicine and gonarthrosis.
In folk medicine, there are a lot of different recipes for the treatment of arthrosis knee joint.
Herbal decoctions
- cranberries,
- cranberries,
- thyme,
- corn stigmas,
- gold mustard
are taken inside and used for compresses. There are also techniques using alcoholic infusions for grinding:
- tincture of bitter pepper,
- tincture of fly agaric,
- tincture of woodworm.
Applied in folk medicine and compresses with medical bile, apple cider vinegar, cabbage - honey compresses. There is even a method of treating sick joints with the help of raw fish, which is tied at night to a sore spot! But we do not think that there are many adherents of using this recipe.
How to prevent the development of gonarthrosis - preventive measures.
To prevent the occurrence of arthrosis of the knee joint is not difficult, if you think about it since youth. How are the rules of prevention formed? Very simple. Read the causes of the disease and do everything to avoid them, namely:
- Do not overeat, adhere to a sparing diet and principles of proper nutrition
- Reasonably distribute physical activity
- Do not overcool
- Timely treat any diseases
- Avoid injuries
- Do gymnastics
- Call a specialist on time
What exercises facilitate the flow of arthrosis? A complex of exercises LFK on video.
Recommendations at first glance quite simple. And if you follow them, you will not face gonarthrosis. And you will not have to worry about respectable age, because we already at the beginning of the article agreed on traveling around the world on our own feet!
