1, symptoms of knee arthritis
When I sat up and walked, I felt pain and discomfort in my knees. After walking for a while, the symptoms disappeared. This is an early manifestation. After a long time, the disease will develop into activities that can't relieve pain, and it is difficult to go up and down stairs or squat and stand. You need your hands on your knees to help. Walking too much, the knee joint is swollen, or swollen badly, and some light yellow liquid can be drawn out. Because synovium and joint capsule are thickened due to pathological changes, there will be noises during exercise. If there is a free body in the joint, it can affect the joint activity, sometimes there is a phenomenon of "joint locking", and finally there will be knee joint deformity. osteoarthritis
This is the most common arthritis and is usually considered as a chronic progressive degenerative disease. Characterized by chronic wear and tear of cartilage. Often occurs in middle-aged and elderly people. At the initial stage, there are no obvious symptoms or mild symptoms. In the early stage, the joints are often stiff and uncomfortable, and they get better after exercise. Acute inflammation can occur during strenuous activity, which will be relieved after rest and symptomatic treatment.
2, knee arthritis health care methods
1, physical therapy: It can relieve pain and muscle spasm, and help to improve blood circulation and reduce swelling. Hot compress is available, preferably wet hot compress. You can also use hot air bath and hot spring bath. Hyperthermia or ultrasonic therapy can be used to relieve subacute pain, and induction electricity can be used for muscle atrophy. Ultrashort wave, microwave and iontophoresis have good anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Warm mineral spring bath and whirlpool bath are better if conditions permit.
2. Drugs: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics are still commonly used and effective drugs to treat osteoarthritis. Commonly used drugs are ibuprofen, naproxen, fenbid, voltarin and so on. Drugs such as aspirin, indomethacin and phenylbutazone have great side effects, so use them with caution. Combined with drugs to relieve muscle spasm, such as chlorzoxazone, Shujinling, Qiangjinsong, Fennalu, etc., the effect is better. You can also take vitamin drugs, such as vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E, etc. Patients with acute inflammation, redness, swelling, heat and pain should also use antibiotics, because some bony joints are complicated with low toxic and lovely infection.
3. Injection therapy: divided into local pain point injection and intra-articular injection, which should be strictly disinfected and accurately located. The characteristic of injection therapy is that drugs can directly reach local lesions, which can eliminate inflammatory stimulation, block the occurrence and development of pathological reflex, eliminate inflammatory exudation, proliferation and swelling, relieve muscle tension or muscle spasm, improve local blood circulation, and stop primary and stimulating pain.
3. Prescription for treating knee arthritis
1, ginger chicken: use 1 new rooster and 100-250g ginger, cut into small pieces, stir-fry and stew in a pot, without oil and salt. If you can drink, you can put a small amount of wine, 1 day, every 1 week or half a month/time. Used for cold joint pain, people who like warmth and fear cold.
2. Pilose antler chicken: Take cock 1 rooster and 3-6g pilose antler, and stew in a pot without oil or salt. Eat meat and drink soup for two days. You can eat/kloc-0 every week or half a month according to the situation. Do not use it in summer or in case of joint swelling and pain.
3, red bean porridge: 30 grams of red beans, white rice 15 grams, appropriate amount of sugar. Boil adzuki beans until cooked, then add white rice as porridge and sugar to eliminate damp heat.
4, glutinous rice porridge: 30 grams of glutinous rice, a little starch, sugar, osmanthus. Cook coix seed first, add a little starch after cooking, then add sugar and osmanthus. Eating at breakfast can clear away damp-heat, strengthen the spleen and remove arthralgia.
5, windproof glutinous rice porridge: windproof 10 gram, glutinous rice 30 grams. Decocting in water once a day 1 time 1 week can clear away heat and relieve arthralgia.
6, papaya soup: 4 papaya, steamed and peeled, ground into mud, refined with white honey 1 kg. Mix the two things and put them in clean porcelain. Drink 1-2 spoonfuls of boiled water every morning. It can relieve joint pain and pain.