Knee arthrosis - symptoms and treatment

Knee joint arthrosis is the most common disease of the musculoskeletal system, which is the complete destruction or deformation of cartilage tissue.According to statistics, up to 22% of the entire population in the world suffers from it.Basically, this disease is found in people of advanced age or athletes.Each person who finds such an unpleasant disease has the question: How to treat knee joint arthrosis?

The causes of arthrosis

Before starting the direct treatment of arthrosis, it is necessary to find out why it arose.The reasons for this are very diverse:

• Great loads.Active physical exercise must correspond to age.Therefore, it is advisable that a person after 40 years practice sports in moderate limits and loads.Unable to deal with the difficult task that older people put themselves, joints cannot stand and are damaged.Sometimes microcalls may appear, which are not visible visible, and may cause damage to damage;
• Trauma.This is what becomes a source of arthrosis in young people.Any fracture, dislocation or damage to the meniscus can cause the development of the disease.In fact, to cure the injury, you need to fix the knee.Deterioration in this blood circulation leads to arthrosis;
• Obesity and overweight.All the severity of the body to go to the knee joint, the cartilage tissue is destroyed under a load that leads to the disease.If, besides obesity, there are also varicose veins, it is quite possible to develop a serious form of arthrosis;
• Violation of metabolism.In this situation, there is often a lack of calcium, which negatively affects bone and cartilage as a whole;
• stressful situations.Any nervous overload, stress negatively affects the health of human joints.To avoid this, it is worth resting more often, not over work and constantly alternating mental work with the physical.

Knee joint arthrosis symptoms

The symptoms with knee arthrosis are quite diverse, but very characteristic:

1. pain.In the early stages of the disease, it is quite weak and felt with strong physical effort.This condition can last a few years until the disease is aggravated.When knee joint arthrosis occurs, pain becomes more pronounced.The knee can hurt, even at rest, after a long walk on foot or rising from heavy things;
2. CRANCH.It is characteristic of intense pain.Appears in 2-3 stages of arthrosis;
3. deformation.In the early stages of the knee, slightly swollen, so he begins to change his shape;
4. Limited mobility.Occurs in the final stages of the disease.All attempts to bend and straighten the knee cause acute pain.Movement is possible only in half -hand legs;
5. Baker cyst.This is the name of an elastic seal on the back of the knee.It occurs due to the accumulation of a large amount of joint fluid.It is easily treated without surgical intervention.

Degree of arthrosis

1. 1 degree of knee arthrosis proceeds almost asymptomatic.It can be characterized by leg fatigue and a short -term violation of mobility that occurs after sleep.The pain can be insignificant.The pathology can only be detected using an x radius.
2. 2 degree of knee joint arthrosis, the pain becomes tangible.It occurs with prolonged loads in the joint and disappears after a long rest.A crisis is added to it when walking, the progression of synovitis (baker's cysts), a change in joint bones, the difficulties in knee flexion.
3. 3 degree of knee joint arthrosis is characterized by serious pain out of the loads.The second feature is a person's inability to bend his leg on his own knee.The pains are very disturbing during sleep, the affected area actively reacts to the weather.Knee joint deformation can lead to disability.

Disease diagnosis

To begin with, the assistant doctor interviews the patient and examines him.After that, an examination in the form of radiography is necessarily prescribed.In addition, the doctor can be directed to magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.Using a complex of procedures, you can find out the exact causes of the disease and understand that these are gonarthrosis, not other disease.

Ways to cure knee articulation arthrosis

When the diagnosis is made, you can proceed to direct treatment.Includes several methods:

• Drug treatment.
• Therapeutic massage, physical therapy.
• Surgery.
• Recovery.

Physical procedures, massage and diet are very important.Comprehensive treatment should eliminate pain, establish motor function of the joint, if possible, to restore cartilage.

Drug treatment

Medicines aim more to get rid of pain as it prevents you from starting your own treatment.To do this, the doctor prescribes analgesics and anti -non -esteroids, ointments, gels.

When all the above do not help, they prescribe treatment with hormonal medications. This method can cause many side effects.This is why only short courses of their application are prescribed.

1. Ointments can relieve pain and slightly reduce inflammation. 
2. Hyaluronic acid is a very effective medicine in the early stages of arthrosis.The drug is administered directly to the joint.This procedure should be performed only by a highly qualified specialist.In fact, in the case of blood acid penetration, there may be major complications.
3. Joints for joints can affect the very cause of arthrosis, especially at the early stage. Medicines restore the production of joint fluid and damaged cartilage.

Physiotherapy

This treatment is very effective in the early stages of knee joint arthrosis: relieves pain, helps restore functional joint skills, eliminates spasm with a muscle.An individual physical effort program is selected by the doctor based on exam results.

Surgery

Surgical treatment is different.Depends on the degree of intervention:

1. Arthroscopy.This procedure is performed using the introduction of an endoscope and auxiliary tools in perforations specially manufactured in the joint.Thus, tissues that have become a source of pain are removed.The operation is sparing and can repeatly repeat.It is performed even in the first stage of the disease;
2. Osteotomy.It is an artificial fracture for bone tissue to grow properly.This procedure is performed with knee joint deformation;
3. Endoprostrate.This operation is performed by the complete replacement of the knee joint injured by the implant.

Proper nutrition

Often the cause of arthrosis development can be a malfunction in metabolism.After all, this leads to a set of overweight and obesity, which causes arthrosis.This is why a special diet should be observed during the treatment period.

The patient should consume foods rich in vitamins and macro elements, as well as calories.You need to eat often in small portions, which will accelerate metabolism.Breakfast should be full and healthy to stock energy throughout the day.In everyday diet, cereals, herbs, vegetables, fruits and vegetables should be present.

It is necessary to exclude fat and sharp dishes, soda, semi -agreed products from the reception.It is undesirable to use bananas, grapes, cabbage, tomatoes, black pepper, all types of confectionery and chocolate.Do not forget that, during this period, more than ever, protein is needed.Therefore, the use of cottage, kefir and cheese cheese should be mandatory.

You need to dinner a later time two hours before bed.Throughout the day, it is advisable to drink up to two liters of water.Unless, of course, the patient does not suffer from kidney disease.

Traditional medicine

A cure for knee joint arthrosis can be prepared with your own hands.It can be all types of ointments, compresses, lotions.But you need to use them only in combination with other medications and only after consulting a doctor.

1. Dandelion.Its flowers are washed and eaten up to 6 pieces a day.They also prepare a decoction.For this, the tooth -of -dried is shed with boiling water.After he cooled, they drink 1/3 cup three times a day.The lion tooth tincture is also prepared.To prepare it, you need to get a dark bottle, fill with flowers and pour alcohol.After a month of insistence, you can use it as rubbing in the painful joint.
2. Aloe.A clean sheet can be adjusted to the knee all night.This will help reduce pain and relieve swelling.From this plant, you can prepare a scrubt tool.To do this, a dozen leaves are crushed in a meat grinder.After squeezing the juice through the gauze and mix it with half a glass of honey.Add 150 milliliters of wine and mix, put everything in a dark place.You need to use a month.
3. For effective compaction, you can have salt, mustard and sand.Mix all ingredients, heat in a pan and place in a bag.Apply to the sore area.This method of treatment will help activate the recovery process, improve blood flow and relieve pain.