Treatments for knee arthritis

Many people suffer from various joint diseases, especially when it rains or the weather changes, the joints become very painful. Among them, the most common and the one with the largest number of patients is knee arthritis. As the name suggests, knee arthritis is a disease in which there is pain in the knee joint. If the disease is serious, it will have a great impact on the patient's work and life, and will cause the patient to be unable to walk normally.

Knee arthritis should be treated promptly in the early stages of the disease. The longer you delay, the more serious the condition will be. But how should diseases like this be treated? What are the things you need to pay attention to during treatment? Here we will introduce to you the treatments for knee arthritis.

What are the treatments for knee arthritis?

Ultrashort wave electrotherapy is the main method, and the electrode plates are fixed on both sides of the knee joint with gauze. The therapeutic dose is low-calorie to warm-calorie for proliferative knee arthritis, no-calorie in the acute phase of traumatic synovitis, and no-calorie to low-calorie in the chronic phase. The treatment time is 20 to 30 minutes, twice a day, and 10 days constitutes a course of treatment. Combined with local self-massage, the techniques include one-finger pushing, pressing, kneading and rubbing, and the locations are around the knees and quadriceps. Take oral western medicine such as ibuprofen or traditional Chinese medicine that promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis, and promotes qi and eliminates dampness.

Hyperplastic changes of the knee joint are a physiological phenomenon of joint aging and degeneration. Because the knee joint bears weight and moves every day, protective new bone growth occurs at the edge of the cartilage, the joint capsule, and the attachment of the ligaments, forming osteophytes. Traumatic synovitis is caused by trauma that causes synovitis in the synovial membrane of the joint, resulting in effusion and causing various symptoms. The clinical manifestations of the two are similar and different, and both can be treated with ultrashort wave, massage, drugs and other methods.

Ultrashort wave is a method of treating diseases by applying an ultra-high frequency electric field with a wavelength of 10 to 1m (frequency of 30 to 300mHz) to the human body. Its mechanism of action is thermal effect and non-thermal effect. It can reduce inflammation and relieve pain, increase neuromuscular excitability and biological activity, dilate local blood vessels, and improve local blood circulation and tissue nutrition.

The above is an introduction to the treatment methods of knee arthritis. It can be seen that there are still many methods to treat knee arthritis. The key is that patients must find the cause of their disease during treatment. Only by finding the cause can they prescribe the right medicine. In addition, they should exercise more during the treatment period, but the exercise must be moderate, step by step, and not too hasty.