What causes Gonarthrosis?
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..
The secondary is a direct result of:
- Fetal development disorders (ie, occurring in utero and during pregnancy) and knee dysplasia, which reduce the consistency, ie the degree of fit joint.
- Articular fracture fragments are not in good standing.
- Rheumatic diseases
- Diseases deposition of substances in the joint
- Joint infections
- Insufficient blood flow to the condyles in adults, which tend to collapse: the vascular bone necrosis or osteonecrosis.
- Insufficient blood flow to the growth plates of the knee (children and teenagers), altering the way to articulate, are osteochondritis.
- Removal of the meniscus, especially the lateral meniscus
- Injuries to the ligaments that produce instability of the knee.
- Lateral collateral ligament injury that causes instability. The inmate is rare that leads to osteoarthritis.
- Changes excessive axes of the knee: genu varus at attention when the knees are far apart (“cowboy leg”). Genu valgum, when the knees are close together but far apart ankles (“legs in X”). Have to be very serious to cause osteoarthritis.