Whenever night falls, the city's parks, county squares, and fields seem to be a jungle of square dancing.
For the matter of sports, auntie uncle can be more diligent than 996 young people. In addition to the daily clock of the square dance, climbing, swimming, running can not be less. The only problem is that the knee seems to be getting more and more painful. In the square dance group a communication, found that there have been several old brother and sister because of knee osteoarthritis for artificial knee joints.
Osteoarthritis of the knee is a common condition in orthopedics, pain medicine and acupuncture, and surveys have shown that the incidence of osteoarthritis of the knee is 80% in people over 65 years old. Patients suffer from unbearable pain day after day, but there is nothing they can do.
What exactly is osteoarthritis of the knee?
What kind of people are more likely to suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee?
How can you better protect yourself from osteoarthritis of the knee?
How can osteoarthritis of the knee be treated effectively?
Osteoarthritis of the knee is a localized injury and inflammation of the knee joint and chronic strain caused by the degeneration of the cartilage of the articular surface, the subchondral bone plate reactive bone damage, resulting in a series of symptoms and signs in the knee joint. Because its appearance is often accompanied by joint hypertrophy or deformity, some people call it deformational arthritis, and others call it hypertrophic arthritis. Because it begins with the degeneration of articular cartilage, some people call it degenerative knee arthritis or osteoarthrosis of the knee.
According to the different causes of the disease, osteoarthritis of the knee can be divided into primary and secondary:
Primary osteoarthritis of the knee : also known as idiopathic osteoarthritis. It is most common in manual laborers, people with high blood pressure, women, patients over 50 years of age, and obese patients. It usually progresses slowly.
Secondary osteoarthritis of the knee: often secondary to joint deformity, joint injury, joint inflammation or other injuries, also known as traumatic arthritis.
Knee coldness, knee pain, knee swelling and deformity, knee stiffness, and limited and recurring knee movement.
? Age factor: Years of accumulated strain on the knee is an important factor. At the same time, the elderly cartilage matrix in the mucopolysaccharide content decreased, the matrix loss of chondroitin sulfate, the fiber component increased, the toughness of the cartilage is reduced, and therefore vulnerable to mechanical injury and degenerative changes can be said to be changes in the articular cartilage itself is an intrinsic factor in the development of hyaluronic acid substances decreased, but also affects the lubrication and nutrition of the articular cartilage;
? Gender factors: This disease can affect both men and women, but women are more common, especially before and after menopause, suggesting that this disease may be related to hormonal changes in the body;
? Hereditary factors: studies have shown that this disease is related to genetic factors;
? Weight factor: obese and stocky people tend to increase the burden on the joints, contributing to the development of the disease;
? Dietary factors: There are no blood vessels in the cartilage of the joints, and its nutrition is drawn from the joint fluid. Malnutrition can cause or exacerbate the progression of the disease;
? Immunologic abnormalities
? Climatic factors: The incidence of the disease is high in people who live in damp and cold environments. This is mainly due to the low temperature, causing local blood flow to slow down or even impaired;
? Biomechanical factors: The function of the hip, knee and ankle joints is greatly altered by torsion when walking in high heels, which is compensated for by the hip and knee joints in order to maintain a stable gait, resulting in damage to the articular cartilage;
? Medical factors: Long-term use of cortisol-based drugs can cause severe secondary damage to the bone and joint.
Osteoarthritis of the knee belongs to the category of "knee paralysis" in Chinese medicine. "Paralysis" is first seen in the "Neijing". "Su Wen - paralysis evidence" said: "wind, cold and damp three gas mixed to, combined into paralysis."
Insufficient positive qi, wind, cold, dampness, external attack, stagnant joints, meridians, meridians are not smooth, resulting in joint swelling, pain, impaired activity;
Insufficient yang qi, phlegm and dampness, blood stasis, blockage of meridians, meridians are not accessible, resulting in joint swelling, pain, impaired activity;
Insufficient yang qi, deficiency in the liver and kidney, tendon and flesh loss of nourishment, not solid, meridians, joints, cold, sore, pain, adverse activity. Cold and soreness, and unfavorable movement.
Therefore, insufficient Yang Qi is the key to osteoarthritis of the knee.
How to relieve knee pain and swelling? What is the best medicine to take?
Dr. Zhang Xiaofeng of Baozhongtang believes that osteoarthritis of the knee "pain in the joints, the disease in the meridians," the disease is mainly "insufficient yang qi in the knee joints, meridian loss of nourishment. As the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says, "Yang qi is the essence that nourishes the spirit, and the softness that nourishes the tendons", so acupuncture and moxibustion can be used in parallel to replenish the yang qi of the knee joints, which is particularly effective in the early treatment of knee joint problems.
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