Unfortunately, many diseases today are getting younger, including osteoarthritis. Thirty years ago, only elderly people developed osteoarthritis, whereas now a lot of patients with this disease are at the age of much younger than sixty years. What is the reason for this?

If, for example, a person complains of pain in the heart, then sooner or later he will visit a cardiologist. Pain in the joints of almost all patients can endure for years, considering that it is impossible to get rid of them and to treat it makes no sense. People try to heal independently, it's pointless, but hard. At the same time, bearing in mind the psychological approach, joint diseases are perceived much harder. It is enough for the heart to drink drops in a timely manner, and the patient's joints will have to rely on crutches. He immediately begins to perceive himself, albeit temporarily, disabled, experiencing more and more.

Treatment and prevention of osteoarthritis, the basic principles of

There are two approaches to its treatment. The first one is conservative when it comes to the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, intra-articular injection of drugs, the use of physiotherapy, exercise therapy and massage. But all these methods of treating osteoarthritis bring only a short-term relief. Therefore, sooner or later one has to decide on surgical intervention. Large joints, including the hip and knee, with their complicated osteoarthritis subjected to endoprosthesis, that is, replacing the joint artificial. These operations are very common now all over the world and, including, in our country, they do not need to be afraid. In Europe, for example, about three hundred thousand similar operations take place in a year.

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The number of similar operations is growing every year. More and more orthopedic departments are opening.

Materials for

endoprostheses Endoprostheses are made from titanium alloy or from titanium without impurities. Only one knot of such a prosthesis, called paratrenia, consisting of a liner and a head, is made from a combination of polyethylene and metal, or polyethylene and ceramics, or metal plus metal, or ceramics plus ceramics. The material is always selected individually, depending on the age, the severity of the disease, the condition in which the bone tissue is located. There is also a rejection of foreign components, as with all kinds of implantation, but very rarely.

Prevention of osteochondrosis and joint diseases

In order to avoid the disease, it is necessary to avoid, if possible, negative factors for the joints: dampness, hypothermia, trauma, inflammatory joint diseases, a whole bunch of chronic diseases, physical activity in large volumes. The negative is, of course, the fact that many of us have forgotten how to walk, even for short distances, moving by car, but also large and prolonged physical overloads also adversely affect our joints. Here it is worth consulting with a specialist.

Negative factor is overweight. After all, all the load goes to the joints of the legs and with increasing weight it increases many times.

One should be very attentive to the body, listening to the first symptoms of the disease. In the case of osteoarthritis treatment will cost you much more difficult and more expensive than its prevention. If the disease is already diagnosed, therefore, the destruction of the joint elements began: cartilage, internal membranes, ligaments, muscles, tendons. These are extremely unpleasant processes. Therefore, try to begin treatment of osteoarthritis at the initial stage of the disease, not leading up to chronic stages. At first, the pain appears only at the starting stage, in the first instants of the movement, and then passes. Then the pain appears after heavy loads. Having rested, you again cease to feel it. Remember - if the pain appeared, they will not disappear, but will only grow. And the more serious the stage of the disease, the more often and more pain in the joints.

Do not self-medicate. Ointments and creams will only muffle the pain for a short time. Consult a doctor in a timely manner, before it's too late.