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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. Read the rest of this entry »

Second phase:

Treatment is based on “intra”, which introduce substances into the joint. Produce temporary improvements, but care must be taken with the risk of joint infection which involves:

Removing the spill, or excess fluid in the joint

Useful when both the fan and prevents painful joint mobility.

Intraarticular injections of hyaluronic acid

Improve the quality of joint fluid and protects the cartilage, may be beneficial in patients with osteoarthritis unevolved and without spillage. Read the rest of this entry »

How is it treated?

First Phase:

Treatment in the early stages is based on proper medication and good therapy.

drugs

- Analgesics pure (target only pain) such as paracetamol. Are the initial treatment for their little side effects. Read the rest of this entry »

How is it diagnosed?

It is diagnosed by medical examination performed by both pain and mobility, coupled with the appearance of the joint on radiographs. The appearance of the films may not correspond to the suffering of the patient as a patient’s discomfort almost too radiographic images can be altered and vice versa.

X-rays can uncover the causes of osteoarthritis. For example dysplasias, chondrocalcinosis, necrosis and osteochondritis when radiographic images show very advanced features, apart from secondary osteoarthritis.

What other conditions can cause knee pain?

- Sciatica

- Injury of nerves that pick up the feelings of the knee.

- Illness or ruptures of tendons that are anchored in the region of the knee (tendinitis of anserine, patellar tendonitis, etc) Read the rest of this entry »

Pain

The basic symptom is pain, which leads the patient to the doctor. The pain of a “mechanical” increases when it starts to move or walk. If you keep moving the joint pain to give in after a time to rise again. With rest yields.

When it evolves noticeable clicks with the movement, to be gradually limited.

Patellofemoral osteoarthritis in the patient feels pain in the front of the knee, and sometimes reflected in the back (the popliteal space). Typically, increases with the stairs, and above all to download. If prolonged sitting with knees bent, the pain forces the patient to lift the knee straight because the pain subsides.

In tibiofemoral osteoarthritis pain side note inside, outside, or both, of the knee. In some cases it may be diffuse or noted only in the popliteal fossa. Increases in walking on rough terrain. In advanced cases pain even walking on level ground. Read the rest of this entry »

What causes osteoarthritis of the knee?

Gonarthrosis is called primary when no cause is found. However certain associated risk factors

- Age is the factor most linked to the onset of osteoarthritis.

- Obesity

- Generalized Osteoarthritis

- The impact sports like football, basketball. His practice over the years may in some cases bringing it to overload the joint osteoarthritis.

- The same is true of workers power: construction workers, longshoremen, etc.. Read the rest of this entry »

What is osteoarthritis of the knee?

The knee joint is a triple lace bones: the two bumps at the lower end of the femur, called condyles, engage with respective concave surfaces of the tibia, called tibial plateau. On the other hand, the patella engages with both femoral condyles.

We therefore have the tibiofemoral joint, medial compartment divided (on the inside of the knee) and lateral compartment (on the outside of the knee) and patellofemoral joint or compartment. The contact zone between the bones of these gears is covered with a layer called cartilage, which can distribute loads and reduce friction between bones with joint movements. Read the rest of this entry »