Gonarthrosis: What Can The Patient Do?
What can the patient do?
- Regular checkups by your doctor to see the evolution and adjust medication.
- Apply local heat (hot shower, electric blanket).
- Obese people should lose weight.
- Avoid impact exercise: jumping, running, weightlifting. So psyched to be a limitation young patient in his sport. This will delay replacement. Besides a knee replacement involves removing all efforts overload the implant.
- Swimming, because movement of the knee is harmonic. The walks are highly recommended, but on flat ground without any dents or slopes or stairs.
- Bicycling can afford, but without excess, level ground and well balanced rastrales, etc. If the knee hurts during practice or increases after completing this activity should be discontinued.
- Make fitness training that includes stretching, muscle toning and relaxation.
- In a crisis of pain, stand in the position most comfortable for the patient. Among the crisis is advised to rest with the knee straight, to prevent flexion contracture.
- Use soft heel type templates, to reduce the impact by stepping down and download a specific compartment of the knee.
- Wear pads to keep the knee only hot, so do not compress the skin should not be rigid.
- Use a crutch if necessary, placed the healthy side. Thereby supporting the critically ill, the crutch of balance.