Causes, joint symptoms, complications and treatment methods

Arthritis is a disease of the joints and is considered malnutrition and is associated with slow damage to the cartilage in the joints.As the joint changes for a long time, the joint ends of the recombinant bones are undergoing an inflammatory process and degeneration of surrounding tissues occurs.Things like “arthritis” also include a large number of joint diseases of degenerative inflammatory properties, which have different causes and similar developmental mechanisms.

According to statistics, arthritis is considered the most common joint disease in the world, with up to 80% of the global population suffering from arthritis.This type of lessor is very common and ranks third after oncology and cardiovascular disease.

As we age, the possibility of joints is increased many times.The disease also affects both men and women, with the exception being arthritis in the interbrain joints, as it is most common in women.The working age of joints exceeds people - the number of patients has increased steadily from the age of 30 to the year.

Causes of joints

Arthropathy develops due to metabolic diseases in the joints, which in turn causes the cartilage to begin to lose its elasticity.This can be facilitated by a complete or partial loss of proteoglycan cartilage composition, which usually occurs due to deep cracks in the cartilage itself.Loss of proteoglycans may occur for another reason: due to its failure to produce joint cells.

The following causes may affect the occurrence and development of arthritis:

• Pre-injury.It may be dislocation, bruises, cracks, ligaments and other damage.
• Metabolic disorders.
• Too much weight causes additional load on the joints.
• The inflammatory process in the joint is acute purulent arthritis.
• Old age.
• Low mass power.
• Low temperature.
• Autoimmune disease - Lupus red, rheumatoid arthritis.
• Common poisoning of the body.
• Frequent colds.
• Specific inflammations - syphilis, tuberculosis, tick encephalitis, gonorrhea.
• Thyroid disease.
• Violation of blood clotting (hemophilia).
• Pertes' disease violates the blood supply to the femoral head.

Similarly, in the near future, diseases such as arthritis are at risk, with occupations: Mason, miners, fishermen, blacksmiths, metallurgy - and other areas of activity related to the increase in physical labor.

Joint symptoms

Symptoms of jointsThe load on the joint is painful and it subsides when the joint is in a static state.Reduces joint mobility, tightness, and the feeling of muscle tension in the joint.Joints that are regularly affected by joints may expand and deform over time.

Consider the following 4 symptoms of arthritis:

• pain.The presence of pain is the first sign of joints.It can be assumed that if there is any damage, a similar feeling will occur, but arthritis, pain has certain characteristics.First, this is the occurrence of sudden pain or obvious discomfort during exercise.It will be positioned where the sore joint is located.When a person stops exercising and enters a rest state, the pain passes.By night, a person doesn’t actually feel unpleasant unless he finds the best position in a body’s coup – the patient will calmly fall asleep.Pain occurs only when resting during the disease progression phase, and when a person cannot fall asleep, they have some similarities with dental assholes.They are closer to the morning - five o'clock.Therefore, at the beginning of the pain, there is almost no pain, only through load or palpation can it be felt that its pain will increase, and the joints need more and more rest time.Then life becomes completely torture - the clear cartilage becomes thinner, the bones are exposed, and the bone plants begin to grow.Acute pain is almost constantly tormenting, exacerbating even more in bad weather and full moons.
• Closing.The same indication of the joint is the presence of tightening.As the softness of bone rotation in joints decreases, they rub against each other, its characteristic sounds rub against each other.Tightening can also be heard in other diseases, even when joints are healthy.But it is precisely such a crunch that features its "dry" sound.The more the disease progresses, the brighter the sound will be.Also, if you hear a tightening, you will feel pain.This is how you can distinguish the sound from the joints that are usually harmlessly clicked.
• Reducing joint mobility is another characteristic symptom of arthritis.In the initial stage, this phenomenon does not disturb the patient, but as the joint develops, the fact that the germination of bone tumors causes the muscle to be spastic, and the joint space almost completely disappears.This is the reason why the limbs remain motionless at the destination.
• Joint deformation.Its modification is the fact that bone plants grow on the surface of the bone, while synovial fluid arrives.Although deformation is one of the latest symptoms, when arthritis hits the joints to a large extent.

The process of the disease is characterized by aggravation and remission phases.This significantly complicates the independent diagnosis of the joint, relying solely on its own feelings.Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the diagnosis with the doctor.

Articulation degree

Arthritis is characterized by degenerative atrophic changes in the joint that will pursue a person in the form of a chronic disease.The result of this destruction is the failure of the cartilage joint, its capsule and synovial pathological changes, in the ligament and bone structure.

Habitually, three arthritis are distinguished, which are characterized by different severity of the disease process and various symptoms.

1 degree joint

During the first stage of arthritis development, no serious changes in joint morphology were observed.Only the composition of the sliding fluid is disturbed.It provides poor nutrients to joint tissue, so the cartilage loses resistance to the load it is familiar with.This leads to the fact that cartilage fabric is inflamed and pain in a person.

The patient may complain about insignificant stiffness in the joints, but for the most part he does not pay attention to the feeling, which is attributed to healthy changes in the weather, uncomfortable postures, and so on.

Sometimes, weak tightening is heard in the affected joint areas.Pain can be painful.If the disease is diagnosed at this stage, a conservative approach can be dealt with.

2 degree joint

The second stage of the joint is accompanied by the destruction of the cartilage.Bone growth occurs at the edge of the joint.The stronger the load, the stronger the cartilage fabric of the joints.

A person experiences the pain of constant habit.The inflammation will now be reduced and then exacerbated again.

The muscles around the joints will lose their previous function, but most of the disease is often weak or moderate.Therefore, at this stage, a person may refuse to see a doctor.

After a short stretch of the legs, a person may experience fatigue.At the same time, joint pain becomes acute.Crystals during movement are intensified, which is explained by bone growth.

It is the second degree of joints in the joint that begins, and the deformation process begins, so you must seek medical help.

3 degree joint

Third-grade arthritis is the most serious.The articular cartilage of the affected joint is not only thin, but also begins to collapse, and the pathological foci are already very large.The joints are very deformed and will affect the normal axis of the limb.

The ligaments surrounding the joints lose their functional activity earlier and become shorter, which can affect the mobility of the arms or legs.

During this period, a person has contractions and subluxation.The muscles around the joints are shortened and stretched, making it difficult to contract.The joint itself and the nearby fabric are insufficient.

A person suffers from severe pain, acute and sharp.Even during rest, the patient will feel severe discomfort.The third degree of joint is associated with the risk of total loss of human capacity.

Types of joints

Depending on the cause of the joint, this disease with unknown cause, idiopathic arthritis.Usually, it is diagnosed by people over the age of 40.There are also secondary arthritis, which occurs in the context of obvious causes (after injury, arthritis, endocrine diseases, etc.).

In addition to the fact that the classification of joints is classified according to the cause of its occurrence, the following types of diseases are distinguished:

• Knee arthritis or accompaniment.This is the most common type of disease.Meanwhile, the knee joint suffers.Pathology is most common in people with overweight, in the context of in vivo metabolic disorders and due to stress.Over the years, the disease has developed in late stages and the knee has completely lost its wobble.
• Ankle arthritis.In this disease, the ankle joint is affected.Due to available developmental abnormalities, gout and diabetes, the disease develops in the context of injury and the extension of ligaments.Sometimes, the pathological cause is rheumatoid arthritis.In most cases, people associated with excessive loads in the field at work are diagnosed: among dancers, athletes, women wearing high shoes.
• Shoulder joints.The main cause of pathology is considered to be congenital defects in the shoulder joint, or excessive load on it.The risk group includes transport vehicles, paper trays and personnel busy with hard labor.This also includes arthritis in the elbow joint.
• Hip or competitive arthritis.This is one of the heavy-duty varieties of pathology.The main reason is the age-related changes in joint tissue.The risk group includes people over 40 years of age.
• Cervical arthritis.What may cause this pathological development: insufficient movement of the cervical spine, obesity and injury.The risk group includes people who work in sedentary work.In addition to the main symptoms of joint disorders in the form of pain and joint movement limitations, the patient also has dizziness, headaches, and sometimes even loss of consciousness.This is due to the intervention of vertebral arteries involved in pathological processes, which will provide to the brain.
• Osteoarthritis of hands and fingers.In this case, the wrist joints are damaged, the joints of the fingers, etc.Mostly, women who enter when they enter pathology during menopause.
• Spinal arthritis suffered by spinal joints and cartilage.After the age of 65, the disease develops most frequently among older people.The woman suffers primarily from his pain, which is explained by the decrease in estrogen levels after orgasm.
• In polysomal arthritis.This is a degenerate disease in which peripheral joints, ligaments and tendons suffer from diseases.The joints of the spine may be involved in pathology.

Complications of joints

If arthritis does not provide proper attention, do not treat it in time, which will not only lead to complete destruction of the diseased joint, but also lead to changes in spinal biomechanics, which is why hernia in the disc may occur, and the development of arthritis in other healthy joints will begin.Complications of joint arthritis are best not allowed.

The following pathology is distinguished as the main complications of arthritis:

• Destruction of joints.
• Joint deformation.
• It is impossible to perform actions.
• Patient's disability.
• Violating the biomechanics of the spine and other joints.
• Hernia of the intervertebral disc.
• Reduce the patient's living standards.

Diagnosis of arthritis

To diagnose, the doctor must interview and examine the patient.He will then appoint his X-ray-affected joints.

X-ray pictures are most often performed in 2 predictions.This study allows you to visualize malnutritional changes in tissues, damage to cartilage and adjacent bones.Patients with arthritis have narrow joint spaces, deformed bone parts, and bone growth, and bone plants can be left behind.Sometimes, the joint itself loses stability, resulting in dislocation.

The first sign of arthritis that can be visualized in X-rays is the presence of bone plants.First, the edges of the joint surface become sharp.In the future, they thicken and then appear to appear and spikes.With the development of pathology, joint gaps have become.

Based on the resulting radiation diagram, the doctor can make the following diagnosis (based on the classification of Kellgren-Lawrence):

• Arthritis is suspicious.It is impossible to determine the degree of stenosis of the joint space, but the genus Little Bone can be seen.
• Soft articularity, where bone plants are visualized well, but there are questions about the reduction of joint space.
• Arthropathy of moderate joints can be diagnosed when the joint space is significantly narrowed and bone plants are clearly visible.Sometimes bone deformation is found.
• Severe arthritis is accompanied by significant stenosis of the joint space and the formation of the Great Bone.The joints will deform.

If the doctor needs more information about joint conditions, he can guide the patient through CT, arthroscopy, or MRI.To assess the quality of synovial fluid, joint puncture was performed.

Treatment method

It is best to treat the sore joints early, and the treatment itself should be pathogenic and complex.The essence of treatment is to eliminate the causes that cause the disease to develop, and it is also necessary to eliminate inflammatory changes and restore the functions lost earlier.

Comprehensive treatment of arthritis includes drugs with anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, and should also undergo physical therapy procedures to have analgesic effects on the joints.If treated in Spa-resort, it is composed of climatic conditions as well as the climatic conditions that act on joints and the use of mineral water and mud.

The treatment of arthritis is based on several basic principles:

• Damaged joints should be eliminated from excessive loads.If possible, it is usually necessary to minimize during treatment.
• Follow the established orthopedic system.
• Category of physical therapy.
• The passage of physical therapy, including magnet and electrotherapy, shock waves, and laser therapy.
• Nursing home treatment.To this end, it is necessary to receive course treatment at a professional resort every year according to the doctor's advice.
• Saturated with oxygen or internal SO joint oxygen therapy.
• Drug treatment.
• Internal, bone blockade and core experience decompression.
• Reasonable nutritional methods.

Physical therapy

You can use physical therapy to deal with arthritis.

These include:

• UVT.Shockwave therapy makes getting rid of bone plants a bone process.It is the main reason why they become pain.The waves soften these products and are absorbed after a while.At the same time, the power of the joints increases and the metabolic process is standardized.This procedure is only effective in the early stages of disease development.Furthermore, only a doctor can appoint it because it has many contraindications.
• Muscle stimulation.This method is based on electrical pulses to stimulate muscles.This procedure is shown to treat sleeper patients who are forced to rest in bed after injury.Although you can normalize the blood in the problem area and increase muscle tone, this approach is not often prescribed for arthritis, which makes it possible to restore the joints.
• voice.In this treatment, the joints are exposed to ultrasound and medication.The effects of drugs increase because they will be delivered “just at the destination” and cells will learn them better.
• Ozone therapy.The method involves introducing a gas mixture into the joint.The patient disappeared, inflammation decreased, joint mobility was normalized, and blood circulation was improved.The treatment is performed in the course.Their duration depends on the severity of the pathological flow.

Types of surgical treatment

If conservative methods cannot be used to deal with the disease, the patient is targeted for surgery.

Surgical intervention methods include:

• Puncture performance.This is not only a treatment, but also a diagnosis.During implementation, the needle is inserted into the joint to absorb a small amount of liquid.In the future, it will be sent for analysis.This method allows you to remove the load from your joints and deliver the drug to it, such as corticosteroids.
• Arthroscopy.Meanwhile, the arthroscopy was introduced into the joints, and for this purpose, several small incisions were made in the skin.This process allows the condition of the joint to be evaluated from the inside.During an arthroscopy, the doctor can remove unnecessary cartilage, thus saving a person from pain.
• Near joint osteotomy.This operation boils down to the fact that the bones of the joints are slightly sawed and secured in the right position.This allows you to reduce the load on the failure zone and save people from pain.Although the procedure is effective enough, they rarely resort to it because it is performed under anesthesia and requires a prolonged recovery period.
• Replace your joints with prosthesis.If the joint is very deformed and cannot be recovered, then resort to internal opthetics.It was a difficult operation and cost a lot of money.The prosthesis itself is made of materials such as metal, ceramic, plastic.After the intervention, a person recovers for a long time and may suffer.Although it is usually impossible to help patients with other methods, otherwise a person can be completely fixed.High-quality prosthesis can last for 20 years.No one has ever encountered any sports problems.

Drug treatment

Let's consider medication in more detail:

• Anti-inflammatory drugs.The initiation therapy for arthritis is comprehensive, and you can slow down the disease and greatly improve the quality of life.At some treatment points, it is worth living in more detail.In particular, treatment with medications is included in the initial stages - which is to eliminate pain, as well as eliminate the inflammation that occurs in the joints.
• Hormone corticosteroids.When arthritis is in a worsening phase, the hormone corticosteroids are recommended.They are inserted into the joints.Externally, you can use special patches, ointments, or tin agents that are made from burning pepper.
• Preparations designed to restore cartilage and improve the high-quality composition of synovial fluid will not be redundant.The course lasts for a long time until improvements are made.  

If the situation is particularly difficult, you can prescribe anesthesia and analgesic intake.However, they are rarely used when the rest of the means do not bring the desired effect.

Proper joint nutrition

In addition, it is worth living in nutrition during the period of intensification of the disease.There are some suggestions here too - you can't overeat because this will cause additional pounds to accumulate, but it is impossible to starve to death, as the supply of cartilage that carries it with important elements will be destroyed.A priority for patients with excessive weight is reduction.To do this, just remove the fast carbs from your diet, all of them are included in all flour and candy.Alcohol is a ban, first of all beer.

There are absolutely no complaints about fish dishes - of course, they can be used reasonably.But you shouldn't rely on it for too much fat because they have a lot of calories, which means the extra pounds won't be long.

An important role in joint treatment is assigned to the cold cut.Surprisingly, it is recommended that all doctors be included in the diet.This food will be a real warehouse for trace elements of sore joints.The most important component of this dish is collagen of natural origin.It is absorbed quickly by the body and is the basis of any connective tissue.Thanks to regular consumption of jelly, good results can be achieved – joints will become more mobile, and fabric lined with fabrics – elasticity, cartilage and bones will gain strength.

Don't forget to use regular vitamin intake with food.For joint patients, B vitamins are particularly relevant

Pyridol will help produce hemoglobin.“You can get it by eating bananas, nuts, cabbage and potatoes.It is worth mentioning green plants and legumes.They will be the source of folic acid.Liver, mushrooms, dairy, dairy, and eggs will be useful.They are rich in Aspergillus ribospermia.

Observe the treatment plan specified by the doctor, and recovery of the disease can be achieved, and tissue damaged tissue will begin to recover.