While the optimal method of treating diseases of Bekhterev does not exist, doctors can only slow down the progress of the disease, while some methods are still questioned. Read more about the individual methods of treating Bekhterev's disease in the article.
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At the moment, the drug, allowing to fully heal the disease of Bekhterev, does not exist. Doctors are trying to combine various means, but as long as they allow only to keep the development of the disease. There are still disputes regarding the feasibility of various treatment methods.
Corticosteroid hormones are produced by adrenalities of a person as an answer of the body to any inflammatory process. For a long time, in 1949, scientists have found a way to artificially synthesize these hormones and in high doses to enter the patient to withdraw the inflammatory process. So therapy has found widespread for the treatment of patients with ankylosing spondylitrite. However, soon it turned out that corticosteroids, removing inflammation in the joints, have a number of negative impacts on the body. Like any hormonal agents, artificially obtained corticosteroid hormones cause addictive, physical and mental. With regular reception of corticosteroids, the human body ceases to produce this hormone himself, adrenal glands are atrophy. Overweight, hair appearance on face, ulcerative illness of the stomach - here is not all the negative consequences of long-term corticosteroid. Very dangerous for patients with Bekhterev's disease is osteoporosis caused by the reception of corticosteroids. Increased brittleness of bones leads to fractures, and forced immobility due to plaster can become for patients with ankylosing spondylitrite fatal.
However, despite all the risks, treatment with corticosteroid hormones can give a significant therapeutic effect and improve the patient's condition. Therefore, the question of the justification of the use of corticosteroids in each case should be solved individually. It is necessary to warn on time or at least to reduce the harmful effects of the drugs used to a minimum. Thus, preparations in the form of tablets, for example, prednisone, are taken at the same time, richly picking up with a liquid or kefir, to reduce the harmful effects on the stomach. If the hormones are introduced using injections, the patient should focus on the prevention of osteoporosis, that is, to devote to therapeutic physical education. During the movement in the bone there are more calcium that strengthens them.
If inflammation is concentrated in some one joint, local infusion of drugs containing corticosteroids. These injections are usually one-time, they bring temporary, but substantial relief. In addition, the one-time introduction of the drug does not cause side effects.
Physiotherapy for Bekhtereva's disease
Physiotherapeutic procedures for patients with Bekhterev's disease are usually used together in aggregate with drug therapy, during sanatorium-resort treatment and to extend remission periods. The most common physiotherapy procedures are magnetic therapy, heat collecting and cryotherapy. Doctors disagree in opinions regarding the effectiveness of each of these funds, as, however, the patients themselves.
The least complaints cause magnetic therapy. Treatment with a magnetic field almost always brings a sick disease of Bekhterev at least short-term relief. Due to the fact that many patients are difficult to ride the clinic on the procedures, they often acquire devices for conducting magnetotherapy at home.
Treatment with heat is also easy to spend at home, however, practice shows that in some cases, the heating or appliqués of paraffin on patients with joints can cause even greater inflammation. Positive effect gives a bath, but a hot tub can enhance the tumor of the joints.
Most of the disputes are conducted around the cryotherapy, that is, treatment with cold. Most likely, this is due to a sharp deterioration in the overall condition of the patient, which is almost always celebrated after the session of cryotherapy. Many doctors immediately warn patients that all joints may be inflated after the first session. But this does not mean that cryotherapy brings only harm. A number of patients after a week of admission procedures have completed a significant improvement.
During sanatorium treatment, the sickness of Bekhterev is prescribed chloride sodium baths that have anti-inflammatory and painful effects, as well as bishophytic baths.
Massage and manual therapy are also used to treat ankylosing spondyloarthritis when the disease is in the remission stage. Almost all doctors are inclined to believe that the massage should not be intense, it can only provoke an inflammatory process. People's Medicine argue with this opinion. Cases are known when the condition of the diseases of Bekhterev has improved significantly after a harsh massage courses conducted by folk healers not recognized as official medicine.
From all of the foregoing, it follows that neither one physiotherapeutic method of treating the disease of Bekhtereva there is no definite opinion, and the patient comes from choosing to rely on its own intuition and the reaction of its own body.
