You come home after the working day, and you have a whisst. You can't fall asleep, written off the unpleasant feeling of fatigue. «Pass», - You tell yourself, thinking that it is enough to relax.
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Many people do not suspect that, soothing themselves with such words, they miss a serious disease of the joints, which strikes up to 80% of middle and older people - osteoarthritisosis.
If you have a periodic pain (after load, evening or night, increasing under the influence of weather changes), joints «crunch», Movements are difficult until the impossibility of movement due to sharp pain, you can suspect this disease. And it is not necessary to be afraid - it is necessary to begin to treat it in time to preserve the mobility of the joint and efficiency. After all, Osteoarthritis is dangerous not only by the difficulty of movement, but also in that, starting in one joint, he can spread to others.
What happens to the amazed joint? To understand this, it is necessary to remember that each joint is the articulation of bones covered with cartilage. Cartilage provides good joint mobility. Due to the features of cartilage tissue, the joint moves «smooth», articular surfaces like alone relative to the other. With osteoarthritis, the cartilage begins to collapse and the smoothness of the movement is broken.
If you are diagnosed «Osteoarthrosis», then it is not a sentence, although the disease relates to chronic. Nowadays, various methods of prevention and treatment of osteoarthrosis, aimed at the functions of the affected joint, have been developed.
The most common methods of treatment include:
- and therapeutic physical culture and massage. Despite the fact that the osteoarthritis of movement becomes painful, with the disease, special systems of exercises are being developed, allowing to strengthen the muscles around the affected joint. It helps to reduce the load on it.
- Physiotherapeutic. With osteoarthritis, procedures are shown that contribute to the removal of muscle spasm, improve the microcirculation in the joint, helping to preserve its mobility. This is an impact of current and electromagnetic waves, ultrasound impact, ultraviolet irradiation, UHF, thermal procedures, including paraffin applications, peat dirt, as well as bath.
- Drug. Under osteoarthritis, drugs reduced inflammation and ensuring an anesthetic effect (in the first place - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs). Also make glucocorticoid injections both directly inside the joint and next to the joint, in «Painful Points». And in order to preserve the cartilage cloth as long as possible, chondroprotectors are used (chondroitin, glucosamine, etc.).
And a few simple recommendations: follow weight (obesity - one of the factors contributing to the development of osteoarthrosis), lead an active lifestyle, try to avoid injury and excessive load, and such a lifestyle will be the best prevention of osteoarthrosis. Diseases amazing up to 80% of older people, but ceased to be a sentence of active life.
