Deforming arthrosis of the shoulder joint, otherwise called arthrosis of the shoulder - a frequently found disease, capable of abruptly reduce the quality of life of the patient. How and why osteoarthritis of the shoulder joint and what is its main manifestations?
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Shoulder Osteoarthrosis — The disease characterized by degenerative dystrophic changes in the articular cartilage and subject to bone, which lead to a violation of the function of the shoulder joint. Arthrosis of the shoulder can develop at any age, but mainly it amazes people over 40 years old and more often men, which is associated with age impairment of mineral metabolism, diseases of the circulatory system and excessive loads on the joint limbs joints. According to statistics to 55 years old, each person can detect signs of arthrosis, and the occurrence of osteoarthrosis of the shoulder joint is quite high.
Causes of deforming arthrosis of the shoulder joint
Causes of shoulder osteoarthrosis lies in a combination of two factors.
- Excessive work on the articulation.
- Congenital or acquired defects of articular cartilage arising against the background of reduced chiffer tissue metabolism.
Inheritance plays a latter role in etiology of the disease, it is proved that the likelihood of the arms of the shoulder in children, whose parents suffered from this pathology, significantly higher.
The reasons for the development of osteoarthrosis of the shoulder joint are linked in the following factors:
- acute injuries of the shoulder joint;
- chronic microtrams of the articular cartilage with repeated movements, for example, athletes-thrusts, painters, plasterans, the appearance of shoulder osteoarthrosis is associated with professional activities;
- congenital anomaly of the development of the shoulder joint, in which even the usual load becomes excessive for the articular cartilage and can lead to its destruction;
- arthritis of different etiology;
- Violations of metabolism, accompanied by salt deposits in the body cavity, and leading to the development of arthrosis of the joints and shoulder.
Symptoms and stages of development of deforming arthrosis of the shoulder joint
The development of osteoarthrosis of the shoulder joint takes place in several stages. The beginning of the disease can remain unnoticed, especially if its occurrence is associated with metabolic disorders in cartilage tissue or salt deposition. With post-traumatic arthrosis, the symptoms of the degeneration of cartilage occur in the first stages of the development of pathology, but often taken for the consequences of injury.
At stage 1 The development of deforming arthrosis of any joint and shoulder joint in particular is manifested by pain in the field of defeat. Since the shoulder joint refers to the most mobile and loaded, the early appearance of pain is quite predictable. Holy feelings are insignificant, carrying character, arise after the load, but gradually calm after a long holiday and are more often associated with overwork. In the morning there is some stiffness of movements in the joint, requiring a small warm-up.
X-ray sign 1 stage of arthrosis of the shoulder joint are presence «Symptom Ring», reflecting salts and formation of osteophytes around the circumference of the articular depression.
Second stage Arthrosis of the shoulder joint, as well as Osteoarthrosis in general, is characterized by the amplification of pain. The pain in the shoulder is becoming constant, intensifies when driving. In the area of the joint, a typical crunch, due to the roughness of the articular cartilage, the presence in the articular cavity of small fragments of destroyed cartilage tissue and oxtophyte chips in the articular cavity. The volume of movements in the joint is limited. Patients have difficulty in performing simple movements related to hand deficiencies and raise them up.
On the radiograph, the narrowing of the joint gap, the presence of bone expansions along the edge of the articular depression and the head of the shoulder bone, the bone seal in the prying region.
Third stage Arthrosis of the shoulder joint is characterized by deformation of the joint and constant severe pain arising even when swaying with hand. Movements are sharply limited. The sick hand is completely excluded from movements and occupies a forced position bringing relief.
X-ray at this stage is a sharp narrowing of the articular gap, the presence of large osteophytes deforming the joint, and the cyst in the bone of the articulation.
