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Osteoarthritis, also known as age-related arthritis. As the name suggests, the elderly has become a matter of course the greatest victims of osteoarthritis. Survey for the elderly: 60 people over the age of incidence can even reach 50%, of which 25% of people have a very serious disease, a direct impact on their daily walk and daily life, forced to aid the professional treatment institutions. Osteoarthritis significant issue, but why the incidence rate is so high, the elderly there is no way to prevent it? How osteoarthritis of the rule? These are tasks that the elderly face a very real problem. However, due to the elderly, especially post-menopausal estrogen levels in the body faster, increase bone loss is very prone to osteoporosis, articular cartilage between the bone loss, resulting in reduced toughness of cartilage, lubrication reduced ability of bone intensified the friction between the bone and become an important cause of low back pain elderly. At the same time, osteoarthritis is often also associated severe intra-articular bone hyperplasia, further exacerbating the pain. Osteoarthritis beginning, but the bones small, shallow ulcers, after the cartilage degradation occurs slowly, how it will appear hyperosteogeny? A classic saying: Where there is oppression, where there will be resistance, cartilage degradation, the increased friction between the bones and joints, in order to resist friction, bone began to hyperplasia, the result is generated around the future proliferation, proliferation of the organization would be disruptive to the surrounding. Many of the older elderly people are always complaining about the past, good legs, good bone, good waist, how one of the older, regardless of all trouble to do something every few days where the pain here, pain, walking a long time, pain, pain, bending is also , to mention something upstairs back pains, joint pain, why is always haunt the elderly? In fact, the body's bone loss in fact, from 35-year-old to 40-year-old has already started, the initial loss is not obvious, the body absorb calcium and calcium emissions roughly equal degree of bone density and joint lubrication can to maintain normal human bone at this stage is better, in general do not appear all kinds of joint pain. However, to the 50-year-old, 60 years of age, bone loss increased, the distance between the joints and vertebral body to further compress and glenoid fossa expanded the scope of deepening, as well as cartilage has also exposed canyon bottom out. During this period are more prone to problems, the most obvious symptom is a few hundred meters away on the redness, like a break for a while, and a walk on again. This is typical of articular cartilage between the excessive wear performance. If we say that osteoarthritis lead to pain and inconvenience to the elderly, then another hidden osteoarthritis is even more had to prevent the harm. According to a study of osteoarthritis patients, the proportion of dementia is much higher than the healthy elderly. Although the incidence of Alzheimer's society, the family also has ties, but the role of osteoarthritis should not be overlooked. The treatment of osteoarthritis of the development to the present, there are two very obvious the wrong direction, the first error is from the medical institutions, in order to alleviate the patient's pain, to patients to open a lot of painkillers, analgesic drugs, that "hurt" is cured; another error came from patients, often patients will have some errors by segment that disease is cured, no pain, you can not care.  However, without a detailed medical examination, how do you know there down the development of lesions. Because there is no cartilage between the articular blood vessels and nerves, although the painkillers being suppressed through the pain, but to the cartilage between the vertebrae oppression continues, the wear also continues, bone hyperplasia still growing. Therefore, the elderly often made if the waist, leg pain, and even poor joints, etc., we must promptly to the hospital to conduct a detailed examination, not to their own medicines based on experience chaos, chaotic calcium. Osteoarthritis treatment of early lesions many ways, including physical therapy, drugs, injection therapy and combination therapy and so on. However, once there significant knee pain, joint activities, limited, affecting the daily lives of the elderly, when not be able to sit idly by, and is best treated with surgery. If, after inspection, joint disease in the mid-term, you may perform arthroscopic exploration and debridement; if already in the late lesion, knee replacement surgery can be implemented, can significantly improve the patient walking and daily life. 2010-02-12
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