Renewing Life: Addressing the Challenges of Chronic Knee Osteoarthritis

Arthritis, the world’s leading disabling disease, is known as the “cancer that never dies.”
In order to arouse the attention of the community, the World Health Organization will be on October 12 every year as the “World Arthritis Day”, aimed at reminding people, arthritis to early prevention, early diagnosis, early treatment, to prevent disability.
What is knee osteoarthritis?
The knee joint is mainly composed of the femoral neck bone and patella. Under normal circumstances, the end of the human knee joint will be covered with a layer of articular cartilage, which is smooth and has a certain thickness, and can play an important role in shock absorption and friction reduction.
When cartilage is worn away, for example, it causes friction between the bones.
At this time, a series of symptoms, such as pain, claudication.
It’s called osteoarthritis of the knee.
How did it find you?
(1) the wear of time
From child to child, whether you kick, crawl, or jump, your knees are working for you.
Frequent wear and tear will reduce the life of the knee joint. Once the wear and tear is excessive, there is no way to recover.
(2) Constant weight gain
“Money is hard to buy old to thin”, knee joint is the main weight-bearing joint of the human body, with the improvement of living standards, people’s weight is also on the rise.
This undoubtedly increases the load on the knee joint.
(3) the neglect of thermal work
Warm work is instilled from childhood, but now people for the sake of beauty and neglect this point, in fact, after a long cold joint, it will cause vasoconstriction resulting in joint stiffness and pain aggravation.
(4) Excessive movement
Life lies in movement, but excessive and improper movement is actually detrimental to the knee joint.
How to judge to get knee joint osteoarthritis?
The clinician usually makes a clinical diagnosis and determines the stage of osteoarthritis of the knee based on the history, symptoms, signs, laboratory indicators, and the results of X-ray, CT, MRI, and arthroscopic exploration/biopsy.
Osteoarthritis of the knee,
Should I move or should I be quiet?
In the case of osteoarthritis of the knee, it is best to reduce activity as much as possible.
But patients with knee osteoarthritis often have the phenomenon of muscle atrophy, once the muscle strength is reduced, it will further aggravate the degree of knee osteoarthritis.
We should move, but the premise is non-acute phase, that is, severe pain, even swelling, except for the situation, we should use no weight bearing or low weight bearing knee function exercise, such as: sitting leg extension, lying leg lift and so on.
The thing to remember is to increase your exercise while reducing your weight.
No matter what part of the body is wrong, it is not what we expect, the only thing we can do is to protect them, always pay attention to their own physical conditions, timely treatment.