Can osteoarthritis be cured?

Osteoarthritis is a rather troublesome disease, a type of rheumatic disease. It is quite harmful and difficult to treat. Many patients who have suffered from osteoarthritis know this well. They are deeply tortured by the disease and can only try their best to control the condition so that it does not get worse. If they want to cure it, it is basically impossible. Moreover, the disease will become more and more serious with age, so it should be given enough attention by everyone.

Regarding the disease of osteoarthritis, patients can only pay more attention to it in their daily lives, avoid doing strenuous exercise, avoid catching cold, especially in the joints, and be sure to take measures to keep warm. Try to reduce outdoor activities when it is cold in winter, and keep the living environment relatively dry and warm. Below we will introduce the relevant content about osteoarthritis, hoping to help you relieve the pain caused by arthritis.

First, let's take a look at how arthritis develops:

1. Healthy joints include strong bones, which are primarily made of essential minerals in a collagen matrix. The joint contains a sac containing synovial fluid, which protects the ends of the bones from impact with adjacent bones and cartilage because the synovial fluid effectively lubricates the joint.

2. Excessive joint fatigue and unbalanced diet can lead to an acidic body constitution. When cartilage is soaked in acidic body fluids, it will degrade and the lubricating effect of synovial fluid will deteriorate. The loss of cartilage occurs in both cartilage and bone, causing the ends of bones to become uneven and form spurs (large bony protrusions). The resulting inflammation can limit joint movement.

3. People with acidic constitution will cause a large amount of calcium loss. The imbalance of calcium balance will cause calcium to accumulate in soft tissues, causing muscle pain. The ends of the bones of patients with rheumatoid arthritis will join and fuse together.

The above three points are the formation process of arthritis. Arthritis must be prevented early to consolidate the foundation of health. People suffering from arthritis should not despair. They can recover their health by actively cooperating with the following treatments and taking good care of their health.

Treatment

1. Drug treatment: The body can be conditioned and treated through two types of drugs: oral or topical. Because arthritis is a chronic disease, long-term use of Western medicine is bound to have serious side effects, so it is often treated with traditional Chinese medicine. The most common method is the external application of traditional Chinese medicine's arthritis Qufengkang plaster therapy.

2Minimally invasive treatment: Minimally invasive technology, ozone nucleus pulposus ablation, injecting ozone gas into the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc through fine needle puncture, can make the nucleus pulposus tissue cells gradually dehydrate and atrophy, reduce the pressure on the nerve roots and achieve the purpose of treatment.

3. Massage therapy: Arthritis is treated through manual massage. Commonly used techniques include: finger kneading, spinal pinching, holding, twisting, wiping, shaking, rubbing and joint movement.

4 Surgical treatment: Artificial knee replacement is a procedure that replaces the completely degenerated, worn and deformed knee joint with other materials. The surface of the worn and damaged joint is cut away by about 10mm to restore the normal joint force line. The artificial joint is then fixed on the cut bone surface with bone cement. This approach may be considered for patients with severe deformities.

Precautions

1. Strengthen exercise and improve physical fitness. Regular physical exercise, such as health gymnastics, qigong, tai chi, radio gymnastics, walking, etc., is very beneficial. People who insist on physical exercise will have a strong body, strong disease resistance, and rarely get sick. Their ability to resist the invasion of wind, cold and dampness is much stronger than that of those who do not exercise.

2. Avoid invasion of wind, cold and dampness. To prevent cold, rain and moisture, pay attention to keeping the joints warm, do not wear wet clothes, wet shoes, wet socks, etc. In the hot summer, don't seek coolness or drink too much cold drinks. The climate in autumn is dry, but the wind is refreshing and the weather is getting cooler, so we should prevent ourselves from getting cold. The winter wind is biting cold, so keeping warm is the most important thing.

3. Pay attention to the combination of work and rest, eat in moderation and have a regular daily routine. The combination of work and rest is the main measure to strengthen your body and maintain your health. Clinically, although the condition of some rheumatoid arthritis patients is basically under control and they are in the recovery period, their condition often worsens or relapses due to fatigue. Therefore, they need to combine work and rest, and maintain moderate activity and rest.

4. Maintain a normal mental state. Some patients develop this disease due to mental stimulation, excessive sadness, depression, etc.; and after suffering from this disease, emotional fluctuations often make the condition worse.

5. Prevent and control infection. Some cases of rheumatoid arthritis develop after suffering from infectious diseases such as tonsillitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis, chronic cholecystitis, and dental caries. It is believed that this disease is caused by the body's immune response to the pathogens of these infections. Therefore, it is also important to prevent infection and control infectious lesions in the body.

We all know the relevant content about osteoarthritis. During the illness, try not to do strenuous work, pay attention to the combination of work and rest, maintain a good mood, especially do not take cold showers, soak your feet, etc., and do not eat cold foods to avoid stimulation to the joints. Protect the joints to reduce the pain caused by osteoarthritis.
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