Arthrosis is called dystrophilic changes in joints that are inherent in destroying cartilage. With such a disease, inflammatory processes slowly develop and the suspension of tissues are degeneration. According to statistics, arthrosis is the most common disease in people aged 30, affecting all segments of the population, regardless of sex, at this time, 80% of the total population of our planet has a pathology under consideration.
Causes of arthrosis
Arthrosis of joint begins due to violating metabolic processes directly in the joints. This may be due to the usual hormonal disorders, hereditary factors and older age.But doctors identify the najskaestiesti reasons for the development of the process in question:
- Dislocations, bruises, joint ligaments and generally any injury to anamnesis;
- Too much body weight - this increases the load on the compounds by many times;
- Previously adopted arthritis of acute form and purulent nature;
- Diseases related to autoimmune classification - for example, scleroderm or red lupus;
- colds that occur often and difficult;
- Regular hypothermia - this can be due to the specifics of the work activity;
- Inflammatory processes in the body, which are specific - for example, syphilis, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, tick-encephalitis;
- Established blood supply to the female head - Pertes' disease;
- Disorders in the functioning of the thyroid gland;
- Hemophilia - Damaged blood coagulation.
It is not worth excluding the fact of inferior nutrition - it can lead to metabolism disorders, which serves as the main cause of arthrosis development. The high probability of the pathological process under consideration is available to miners, coins, metallurgists and all people who regularly experience severe physical activity. The doctor talks about the mechanism for the development of deforming arthritis joints:
Symptoms of arthrosis and degree arthrosis
The main sign of the disease being considered is painful - occurs with excessive physical efforts on certain joints, may occur, and occasionally, in the background of pain in the field of joint procedure, hyperemia (redness of the skin) and swelling.Generally, doctors identify 4 main groups of arthrosis development signs:
- Pain. Of course, this symptom is characteristic of many diseases, but with arthrosis there are some characteristics of pain in the common:
- An unpleasant sensation occur only when starting;
- As soon as a person introduces a wrist on vacation, the syndrome disappears. Note: The pathological process being considered is developing very slowly, therefore, at the beginning of its course, the arthrosis is cared only periodically joint pain exclusively with excessive loads. At night, the pain of patients do not bother, sleep is not upset. Then, with the advancement of arthrosis, morning pain begins - they are characterized by patients as "shootings" differ in a short time and occur only in the early morning. If the arthrosis is negligible state, then the pain syndrome gains acute and constant nature - even powerful pain cannot reduce its intensity.
- Reduction of joint mobility. It is also considered one characteristic arthrosis symptoms, but appears already in the phase of active disease progress. During the development of arthrosis, grow / germinate bones of neoplasm, leading to muscle tissue cramps, reducing lumen in a common bag - the limit of movement in this place is guaranteed.
- Crunch.The joints are screaming even in absolutely healthy people, but there is a characteristic characteristic of crumbs - "dry", not clicking and always accompanied by acute pain.
- Joint deformation. This phenomenon occurs in the growth of osteophytes and is considered one of the latest signs of arthrosis, which appears in the stage of decompension development of the pathological process under consideration.
The radiological image of the arthrosis at each of the 4 degrees is shown below:
The specialist speaks more about the symptoms of arthrosis:
Please note: the course of the disease being considered is very slow and in the first phase cannot characterize any symptoms, and inconsistent community pain and increased fatigue can be inherent even healthy people. Therefore, an independent diagnosis of arthrosis is almost impossible.
The processes that occur in the tissues of the joints on each of the arthrosis phases are displayed on the diagram:
Principles of treatment of arthrosis
- Doctors claim that painful joints must be treated at an early stage of pathology development - this is a guarantee not only to solve inflammatory processes, but also on the renovation of already lost functions. Doctors can use different methods of treatment of arthrosis - this is a recipe of medicines, and physiotherapy and regular treatment sanatorium-resort. In any case, the therapy for the pathology under consideration should be comprehensive and based on the following basic methods:
- It is necessary to remove a painful date from the cargo. This does not mean that the patient should maintain a strict bed bed, but it is necessary to maximize the load on the problematic part of the body - for example, change training or killed.
- Clearly adheres to the schedule of medical physical education - the present doctor brings such meetings, and the specialist should be carried out classes.
- Mandatory arthrosis treatment should include physiotherapy magnetotherapy, electrotherapy, laser and therapy by striking wave.
- Visit to specialized resorts - Sanatorium Treatment will not only successfully implement recovery / rehabilitation period after the main treatment stream, but prevent arthrosis recurrence.
- Clearly execution of all doctor recipes compared to drugs.
- Conducting intraarticular blockages.
- Correcting the diet.
Medicine treatment
The following medications must be used in the drug therapy complex:
- Anti -inflamatory. This group of medicines perform two functions at once: relieves the pain and eliminates the inflammatory process. Doctors use non-anti -infammatary medications for arthrosis and do not prescribe orally (in tablets) - this drug category is irritating the stomach for gastric mucosa. Given that the course of the arthrosis therapy is quite long, the patient can be solved in a thorough disease, but "earn" gastritis (inflammation of gastritis) and even a peptic ulcer. Therefore, depending on the specially selected medicine, they are prescribed intravenously or intramuscularly. You can buy non-atein -infalmator drugs and local purposes in pharmaceous networks - such fat can be used, but do not give a strong effect or long-term time.
- Hormonal corticosteroids. This group of drugs is most efficient in the period of aggravation of arthrosis. But a similar category of drugs in the pharmacies is also presented in the form of mortar, fat - used only outside, you can expect a fairly fast and strong effect.
- Chondroprotector. These drugs contribute to the renovation of the cartilage tissue. Please note: The course of therapy with these medications is very long, but if there are no positive results within 6 months and then chondroprotector or completely canceled or adjusted to your dose.
Very often, in the process of treatment of arthrosis, experts prescribe medications that contribute to the degrades of cartilage tissue. But doctors warn their patients so you should not wait for a fast effect - the noticeable positive shift will start before taking drugs.
Please note: If the patient is hospitalized with arthrosis on the hardest stage of pain, doctors cannot remove any painkillers, then they can be prescribed to narcotic analgesics, but that is extremely rare.
Diet
The importance of an appropriate nutrose for arthrosis is difficult to assess - if the patient neglects the Nutritionist recommendations, then the treatment of the pathological process considers for years, and the results will not be very high.
What needs to be remembered from these patients who are forced to undergo therapy against arthrosis:
- Be sure to correct your weight - it is strictly prohibited from families (the nutritional tissue nutrition in the joints will be broken), but it is worth leaving flour and sweet dishes;
- It is forbidden to drink alcohol, especially beer - first, are not compatible with many medications and cannot cause an active allergic reaction, and more, it is alcohol and beer as causes of an additional pounds;
- In the diet, it is necessary to introduce a railway - this product returns binder tissue and strengthens cartilage.
- Be sure to control the sufficient Vitamin B. Vitamin B. , of course, use vitamin complexes, but it is quite possible to get the required amount of this substance and from products - fish, beans, every day should be present in the menu.
- The diet should have bananas, walnuts, poultry liver, milk, eggs and mushrooms. Folic acid, riboflavin and pyridoxine will enter the body from these products - help a lot in the treatment of the pathological process being considered
National treatment of arthrosis
There are a few dozen of the National Methods of Treating Arthrosis, but everyone will only alleviate unpleasant symptoms, but they will not eliminate even inflammation or the main cause of disease development. Of course, compression and application, fats and helples of chestnut, leaf cabbage and speech tincture will have an analgesic effect and even allow the patient to return to the usual rhythm of life for a while.But doctor counseling will be required:
- First, it is necessary to ensure that the joints influenced precisely arthrosis;
- Second, taking certain medications significantly reduces the recovery process;
- Third, doctors will be able to establish a true reason for the development of the destructive joint process, directing forces to eliminate them, leading to complete medicine.