One of the most common reasons why people are looking for medical help are back pain and joints. There are probably no people who were not affected by these problems, and with age, the pain in the back and the joints are unfortunately remembering.
One of the most common diseases of the movement apparatus system is osteoarthritis. It's about him that we will tell you in this article.
Osteoarthritis is a chronic joint disease of a degenerative-dystrophic nature in which the articular cartilage, the joint capsule, occurs gradually. Bone tissue, which is located directly under the porous cartilage, thickens the loads unevenly and compensates for the load deformation.
In addition, this disease is called: osteoarthrosis, arthrosis or arthritis deformed, since the initial damage to the cartilage leads to the inflammatory process in the joint.
What is the difference between arthritis due to arthrosis
These two diseases are often confused due to the harmony of the names and the fact that both arthrosis and arthritis affect the joints. In the meantime, these are different diseases and, which is very important, they are treated in different ways.
Osteoarthritis develops most often in old age (from 45 years). This gradually finds a common deformation of age.
On the contrary, arthritis begins more often at a young age (up to 40 years). Of course there are exceptions, for example after a cold or flu with an older person, arthritis can develop or vice versa. A young boy is an athlete against the background of physical overload, osteoarthritis of the knee joints occurs.
2% of the world's population suffer from various arthritis and often young people. About 10% of our planet suffer from osteoarthritis, and when young osteoarthritis rarely affects, the number of patients with osteoarthritis increases repeatedly. In the 50-year-old age group, every third person has this or other phenomena, and every second is part of 70-year osteoarthritis.
If only joints suffer from arthrosis and the entire body is usually not involved in the pathological process, on the contrary, the entire body is included in the inflammatory process, and only the "IRIG" is inflammation with arthritis, since the inner organs almost always become a severe shirt with an increase. If the treatment does not deal with a way, it can become a statement. Threat to the patient's life.
In arthritis, inflammation in the joints usually manifests itself in their redness, swelling, severe pain that does not depend in peace, and sometimes on the contrary, at night.
In the case of osteoarthritis, the pain mainly manifests itself when it moves or physically exhausted, although it may not be very strong (especially at the beginning of the disease). That is why people often begin the disease. In the second stage, the pain manifests itself with a slight load and in the third - even in peace. In contrast to arthritis, however, it can decrease if the patient manages to take a comfortable position.
In the case of osteoarthritis, a rough dry crisis occurs in the area of the affected joint, which occurs due to the destruction of the cartilaginous layer and the friction of the bones. The further the destruction of the joint progresses, the greater the grinding.
In arthrosis, the amplitude of the movement in the affected joint decreases, while arthritis is characterized by stiffness throughout the body or in the joint.
The inflammation of the joints in arthritis is most commonly due to infection or failure of the activity of the immune system (autoimmune process), less often arthritis indicates a general metabolic disorder.
Types of osteoarthritis
Arthrosis is a whole group of common illnesses that have different origins but close development mechanisms. Osteoarthritis is most common.
In terms of localization, different types of osteoarthritis are differentiated: gonar rose - deforming osteoarthrosis of the knee joint, coxarthrosis - deforming osteoarthrosis of the hip joint is the most severe type of osteoarthritis that deforms the fraud of the shoulder joint.
The osteoarthritis of small joints is less common, usually older people suffer from it.
There are often osteoarthritis of the foot fuks.
Spondylarthrosis - osteoarthritis of the vertebral joints (often on disease of the spine).
Symptoms of arthrosis
The most important clinical symptoms of osteoarthritis are pain in the joint and a decrease in its mobility. Specific symptoms and their severity are determined in the stage of osteoarthritis and depend on the degree of destructive changes in the joint.
The causes of osteoarthritis
- Connections and bone injuries, microtraumatization of the joint tissue with excessive stress in production or during sports, with obesity, mechanical damage to the joints during operation and even under violation of attitude or flat feet.
- Genetic disorders in the cartilage tissue of the joint, which lead to its accelerated destruction. This can be hereditary congenital defects of the musculoskeletal system: dysplasia, hypermobile of the joint, flat feet or other defects that are the cause of the trauma of certain sections of the cartilage tissue of the joints and, as a result, lead to the development of arthrosis. For example: The deformation of osteoarthrosis of the interfalizing joints of the upper extremities is usually found in women and is inherited from the mother line.
- Autoimmune diseases (psoriasis, gout, rheumatoid arthrosis).
- Other common diseases (acute and chronic arthritis, bursitis, synovitis and other inflammatory joint diseases of various etiologies can lead to the development of osteoarthrosis).
- Vascular diseases.
- Diseases that cause circulatory diseases in the periary tissues lead to dystrophic changes in the joint (varicose veins that regulate endarteritis, atherosclerosis of the vessels of the lower extremities and even such a normal hypodynamy for all of us).
- Endocrine diseases, metabolic disorders, lack of minerals, trace elements and vitamins cause changes in the composition of cartilage, joint fluid and bone tissue, which gradually leads to a violation of the restoration processes and the destruction of the joint.
How arthrosis develops
Another osteoarthritis in connection with the aging of the body develops according to the following scheme. The process begins with circulatory diseases in the capillaries of the periosta, with the nutrition of the cartilage disrupted. Gradually the cartilage is thinner, loses its elasticity, cracks occur, the smoothness of the articular surfaces is lost, the amount of synovial fluid, which ensures that gliding the joint surfaces creates. As a result, pain and grinding appear when moving. Over time, the width of the joint slot decreases, osteophytes (bone tips) are formed on the joint surfaces. Ultimately, the joint is deformed, the amplitude of its movements is reduced.
This type of osteoarthritis is gradually being developed over the course of many years.
Other forms of osteoarthritis can develop according to a different mechanism (e. g. post -traumatic arthrosis), but pathological changes in the joint will be similar.
Treatment of osteoarthritis
If you diagnose osteoarthritis or osteoarthritis, you have difficult treatment, but it is very important not to give up and not to lose hope of a successful result.
In the event of pain in the joints that affect their function and other symptoms, they must consult a doctor. A specialist who has common problems is a rheumatologist.
The main tasks of the treatment are pain relief, the restoration of the affected joint structures (mainly cartilage) and the motor function of the joint. Success can only be achieved with a timely start of the therapy. If you start treating osteoarthritis at an early stage, it is not only possible to suspend the development of the pathological process, but also to partially restore the destroyed cartilage.
If the cause of the disease is known, you have to try to remove it. If there is excess body weight, you have to lose weight. In the event of a violation of the metabolism or the hormonal background, you should focus on your normalization. In the event of a problem due to employees or sports loads, to change the activity area so as not to abuse sport.
The selection of drugs is the task of a doctor, you should not prescribe it yourself. Mostly combinations of the following groups of medicines are used for treatment:
- Analgetics (analgesic);
- Hormonal and non -steroid anti -inflammatory medication;
- Protective (Funds feed and restore cartilage).
Eliminating excess weight is the most important connection in the therapy of osteoarthritis, since excess body weight increases the load of pain joints not only during movement, but also in peace. In patients who were able to lose weight, the disease is much slower than those who were not successful. However, the medal has a different side. If you use the disease yourself, it is unlikely that weight loss is not possible at all. If the joint hurts a lot, the performance even becomes torture even the simplest exercises.
Therefore, you have to act in several directions at the same time: try to reduce weight, treat the underlying disease and change your lifestyle.
protector
All patients with osteoarthritis are prescribed by a group of levels who inhibit the destruction of cartilage and even restore. The composition of such drugs includes substances of glucosamine and sulfate (or their combination), which help to moisten cartilage to increase their elasticity, to improve nutrition and to activate the recovery processes in it. Such funds also have an analgesic effect, but this effect develops some time after the start of the recording.
Treatment of arthrosis folk remedies
Since antiquity, folk remedies have been successfully used in the treatment of osteoarthritis and arthritis. Their main task is the normalization of the metabolism, the stimulating regenerative cartilage processes, the cleaning of toxins, the elimination of inflammatory processes in the joints and periacal tissues, the removal of pain and edema in them. These funds include:
Schaffer - relieves inflammation in the joint, reduces pain and swelling in the joints.
Dandelion root - improves the common elasticity.
Iva bark contains lignin, tannine, salicyide glycoside, ascorbic acid, anthocyanis, pectins.
Field Hufettail - helps restore the cartilage tissue of the joints.
Birch leaves - When tinctures remove uric acid from the kidneys and joints and are used with external use in the steam and massage in the bathroom.
Timyan - contributes to the synthesis of collagen.
Forest berries - reduces the swelling of the tissue around the joints.
A series -Hat an anti -inflammatory effect, baths with a series improve blood circulation in Peri -Humanian tissues.
Ointments of juniper berries, nettle leaves and cow oil to relieve joint pain.
Ointment made of crushed root of horseradish and oil jelly - relieves pain and reduces the inflammatory process in the joint.
Jerusalem artichokes - for preparing a bath to relieve the inflammation in the joint and to reduce pain.
Exposure - improve metabolism and remove salts from the joints.
Herbal teas made of thyme, lingonberries, rossen hips, oregano and mint - to remove toxins and toxins from the body.
Tincture of a golden mustache for oral administration
Cut 10 - 15 joints, grind them along and below, pour 0, 5 liters of vodka and insist in a dark place for two weeks.
Apply a tablespoon three times a day, an hour before meals. You can't drink or jam anything. The course of treatment is 7-10 days.
The same infusion can be used as a compress on a painful joint.
Golden mustache
This ointment is prepared on the basis of oil jelly, baby cream or inner fat. Grind the leaves and stems of the golden mustache, press the juice from the resulting porridge and mix with cream or fat in a ratio of 1: 3. It is used to rub in the neck of osteoarthritis and arthritis.
Honey with aspirin of joint pain
Grind 10 tablets of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) in powder and mix thoroughly from 200 g of honey (preferably liquid). Place the mixture in a dark, warm place for 10 days, mix regularly. If you melt your neck joints with the resulting tool, then cover them with polyethylene and wrap them in with a wool scarf. Leave the compress all night. Make it until the relief comes.
Under the influence of this tool, light reductions and burning feeling can occur, but this effect runs over time. This recipe is not suitable for people with allergies to build products or aspirin.