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The knee is considered a large synovial joint . The knee joint connects the kneecap, tibia and femur. When the outflow of fluid from the joint cavity is disrupted, edema or swelling of the knee joint occurs. Its cavity is filled with a thick liquid, which protects the articular surfaces from friction and wear. Synovial bursae form in the lining of the articular cavity.
The two cartilages of the meniscus are shaped like crescents and are located between the articular surfaces. Many lymphatic and blood vessels pass through the knee, in the popliteal fossa.
The main causes of a swollen knee are:
To find out the reason, you cannot do without examination by a specialist.
Fluid accumulates inside the bone in the knee area in some cases:
Pressure increases from the fluid accumulated in the bone, pain appears, and the knee will swell. Here the cause is not in the joint, but in the bone tissue.
If you have a knee injury, you should definitely see a doctor for a diagnosis. For minor injuries, pain and swelling can be eliminated within a week with complete rest of the joint. Treatment will depend on the cause of the swelling:
Common causes in the knee area are arthritis and arthrosis . Cold and warm compresses reduce joint stiffness and pain.
The disease is not uncommon and appears from an increase in fluid in the bone tissue. Occurs from a pathology that occurs in or near the site of edema. It develops when the integrity of the joint cartilage is disrupted and occurs from high capillary permeability, when water and proteins leak through the extracellular space. They come into contact with the walls of blood vessels. The disease can develop against the background of:
This process requires accurate diagnostics to make the correct diagnosis and eliminate the causes. Pathological processes are divided according to the type of edema:
All types have their own characteristics of manifestation, which can cause complications.
Joint surgery is considered false and unpredictable . The consequences vary: in some cases, surgery is futile and the person has to endure suffering and expense.
Endoprosthesis replacement is performed on the tibia and femur in case of bone marrow edema. The operation is prescribed only in emergency cases:
Due to osteonecrosis, trauma, arthrosis, the doctor notes a complete loss of joint function and suggests endoprosthetics.
After surgery, swelling may persist for some time. This is considered normal and is a physiological process. The knee joint will recover completely after going through three stages:
Factors leading to joint swelling are: arthrosis, arthritis, inflammation, bruises and physical activity - excess weight, sports, etc. If you experience any discomfort, you should consult a doctor; it will be difficult to diagnose yourself correctly. Incorrect treatment will lead the disease to a chronic stage.
You can use folk methods at home to relieve swelling and reduce pain.
The main thing is to notice the first symptoms of the disease in time and consult a doctor in time. The disease begins with a nagging pain in the back. to stop smoking for this period . Eliminate smoked, salted, fried foods from your diet, eat more vegetables, and reduce your consumption of sweets. For a speedy recovery, you should adhere to a diet and follow the recommendations of a specialist.
Edema is the accumulation of fluid in body tissues. There are edema of renal and cardiac origin. If the heart ceases to cope with the constant load that is necessary to deliver blood to organs and tissues, if the blood flow is slow and the cardiac output rate is frequent and weak, then blood is retained in the vessels, some of the fluid penetrates through the walls of the vessels into the surrounding tissues - edema is formed. Under the influence of gravity, fluid moves down to the lower extremities, which is why the legs most often swell. Edema associated with kidney disease, as well as “hungry” edema, are located evenly throughout the subcutaneous tissue, while cardiac edema is located in the lower back and back of bedridden patients, and on the legs in walking patients.
A fruit and vegetable diet removes water from the body. It is especially recommended to eat cucumbers, raw cabbage, eggplant, lemon with peel and honey, boiled potatoes, onions, garlic, parsnips, parsley, and a decoction of watermelon rinds. Birch buds and leaves, bedstraw grass, parsley fruits, cornflower flowers, horsetail herb, dandelion root and trifoliate herb are especially recommended for edema of cardiac origin. The root and the entire aerial part of Lovage officinalis is used for severe swelling of the legs.
For cardiac edema, apple-curd fasting days are recommended, when a person eats only 600-800 g of apples and 300-400 g of cottage cheese per day. For large edema, such a diet is prescribed for 5 days.
Drinking calendula tincture 30-50 drops 3 times a day before meals for a month helps get rid of dropsy and swelling and enhances cardiac activity.
For swelling of any origin, drink a decoction of a tablespoon of cherry stalks, 1/3 cup, 3-4 times a day for a month or more.
Pour 4 teaspoons of flaxseed into 1 liter of water. Boil for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, wrap it in a blanket and let it brew for 3-4 hours. Strain and add lemon juice for taste. Take 0.5 cups 5-6 times a day, every 2 hours. The product is soft, the result will be noticeable in 1-2 weeks. It is especially effective for internal swelling.
Juniper fruits, licorice root, steelberry root, lovage root (equal parts in total). Infuse a tablespoon of the crushed mixture in a glass of cold water for 6 hours, then boil for 15 minutes. Strain. Drink 1/4 cup 4 times a day.
Nettle leaf, St. John's wort, bearberry leaf, plantain leaf, rose hips (equal parts in total). Pour a tablespoon of the crushed mixture into 600 ml of water and boil for 5 minutes. Leave for 1 hour, strain. Drink 3-4 times a day.
Cornflower flowers - 30 g. Bearberry leaf - 40 g. Licorice root - 30 g. Brew a tablespoon of the mixture with a glass of boiling water, leave for 15 minutes, strain. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times a day.
Birch leaf - 30 g. Horsetail grass - 30 g. Pour a tablespoon of the mixture with a glass of boiling water, boil for 3-5 minutes, leave for 1 hour, strain. Drink 1/4 cup 4 times a day.
A decoction of oat straw, collected from the beginning of earing and before the grain begins to ripen, in the amount of 40 g per liter of water, drink 0.5 cups 3-4 times a day.
Boil a tablespoon of wheatgrass root in 1/3 liter of water for 3 minutes and drink 2 tbsp. spoons 3-4 times a day.
Start drinking black radish juice with honey 0.5 glasses a day and gradually increase the dose to 2 glasses a day.
Infuse 2 teaspoons of nettle roots in a glass of boiling water for 1 hour and drink 0.5 cups 3-4 times a day.
Drink 2 tbsp in the morning. spoons of onion juice. To do this, take 2 medium onions in the evening, cut them into thin slices, sprinkle with sugar, and in the morning, after squeezing the juice, drink.
Burn the stems from ordinary Russian beans on an iron sheet. Collect the ash, grind into powder and store in a glass jar with a ground stopper. For 1st dose: mix 1 tbsp. spoon of vodka with 0.5 teaspoon of ash and take 3 times a day.
Infusion of agave leaf and wormwood in water in equal proportions. A teaspoon of the mixture per glass of boiling water. Drink 0.5 cups 2 times a day.
Parsley (root, fruit, herb) is used not only in plant mixtures, but also separately.
1 teaspoon of seeds or 1 tbsp. a spoonful of the whole plant is simmered for 10 hours in 300 ml of water and drunk 1 tbsp. spoon 4 times a day.
Pass the parsley root and greens through a meat grinder to obtain 1 cup of mass, add 0.5 liters of boiling water and wrap for 6-8 hours. Then filter, squeeze, add the juice of 1 lemon and drink everything in 3 doses per day. You need to drink 2 days in a row. Repeat the procedure after 3 days.
Pumpkin (porridge and juice from it) - for edema and diseases of the heart, kidneys and bladder.
Infusions of thyme, burdock, and knotweed are taken as a diuretic.
Pour 150 g of chopped elderberry root into 30 ml of vodka. Infuse in a warm place for 10 days, strain, take the first 3 days, 10 drops 3 times a day before meals, 3 days - 15 drops and 3 days - 20 drops 3 times a day. Drink until the end of the medicine.
Wash and chop 800 g of parsley and place in a saucepan. Pour fresh milk and place in a not too hot oven. Allow the milk to evaporate until half the original quantity remains in the pan. Strain and give the patient 1-2 tablespoons of the decoction every hour. Give by tablespoons. The medicine must be taken on 1 day. This is a strong diuretic. It helps even when other diuretics are powerless.
Hemp chaff has long been considered an excellent remedy for dropsy. It is brewed and drunk like tea. However, you need to drink it a lot and often.
For dropsy, especially abdominal dropsy, a powerful remedy is therapeutic fasting, systematically carried out, especially from the very beginning of the disease. You need to do a 7-day fast once every 2 months, drink only water or tea without sugar. And be sure to take an enema of clean water in the morning every day during fasting.
To conduct systematic fasting courses, you need to prepare your body for this in advance. First, you need to accustom yourself to a weekly one-day fast on a certain day of the week, then you can move on to multi-day fasting.
After fasting, the transition to regular food should be gradual:
on the 1st day of breaking fast - any vegetable or fruit juice diluted half with water, on the 2nd day - undiluted juice (up to 2-3 liters), on the 3rd day - vegetables and fruits, and only on 4 day - a small amount of any porridge with water, some bread, soup without meat.
On the 5th day, you can move on to regular food. We should not forget that even during the recovery from fasting, it is necessary to do enemas every other day, in order to avoid poisoning the body with products and toxins released during fasting.
Swelling of the tongue - mix 250 g of pure honey with 500 g of pure brandy (20 degrees), heat over low heat. Rinse your mouth and swallow the medicine (5-6 times a day). Eat fresh eggs and fresh milk:
Swelling of the neck, under the ears, caused by inflammation of the tonsils. Make compresses from boiled parsley.
Swelling caused by tooth inflammation
Take beeswax, boil it and apply it to the sore spot until the swelling goes away. Compresses made from boiled parsley also help.
Swelling in the knees, swelling of the hands due to rheumatism (gout), that is, when the toe on the right or left foot hurts, causes severe pain from inflammation of the diseased blood. Take 5-6 bees, apply them to your finger, squeeze them so that they sting the sore spot, and after 5-6 days the swelling will subside. If there are no bees, take 500 g of strong alcohol and 25 g of camphor, stir them, moisten cotton wool, and make a compress on the sore spot. Apply the compress for 7-8 days until the inflammation goes away.
Take flaxseed or hemp seed, crush it, boil it in water or fresh milk. Apply the compress to the sore spot in the mornings and evenings for 10-20 days.
Swelling red or blue
Make compresses from mashed potatoes or grated raw potatoes in the mornings and evenings.
Rub with heated wood oil mixed with camphor, or pork fat with camphor. Apply heated river sand. Repeat the procedures until recovery.
Sea salt has excellent diuretic properties, so it can be used in the treatment of edema of cardiac and renal origin.
• Dissolve 100 grams of coarse sea salt in five liters of hot water; Cool the brine solution to room temperature. Soak a terry towel in the saline solution, wring it lightly and place it on the patient’s lower back. Hold until the towel is dry, then repeat the procedure several more times. Soon, profuse urination will begin and swelling will subside.
• Dissolve 300 grams of sea salt in a bathtub filled with hot water. Let the water cool to body temperature. Lie down in this bath. Lie down until you feel the urge to urinate. Empty your bladder directly into the water. Get out of the bath when the urge to urinate stops. Pay attention to the swollen areas: the swelling should subside!
This is the accumulation of aqueous fluid in the pulmonary vesicles (alveoli) and in the tissues of the lungs. The disease is not independent, but a serious complication of other diseases. It occurs as a result of stagnation of blood in the lungs caused by heart failure, hypertension, heart attack, acute kidney inflammation, uremia. Edema can occur due to inflammatory or toxic damage to the blood vessels of the lungs, as well as when the patient lies in bed for a long time.
Signs: suffocation, loud wheezing, bubbling breathing, pink foamy sputum, severe pallor of the skin with a bluish tint, rapid and weak pulse. Pulmonary edema is often a manifestation of agony.
Warning: a seriously ill patient must be carefully turned from side to side several times a day, unless the nature of the illness prevents this.
First aid: elimination of hypoxia. First of all, it is necessary to restore the patency of the airways. To do this, sputum is suctioned and oxygen and alcohol vapor are inhaled. To reduce the blood supply to the pulmonary vessels, tourniquets are applied to the limbs, pinching the venous vessels, and various medications are used for the same purpose: diuretics that lower blood pressure. However, their use requires great caution and should only be carried out as prescribed by a doctor, who must be called immediately.
Ancient medical books recommend: at the first signs of pulmonary edema, the patient should take a semi-sitting position. Give him strong coffee, put mustard plasters on his hands and feet, dry cans on his back, call a doctor. Since every minute counts, while waiting for the doctor to arrive, give the patient 20 essential-valerian drops with water every half hour. A glass of vodka taken an hour later can be a substitute for medications that are not at hand.
After a seizure, give something expectorant, not emetic; for example, a hot decoction of anise seed with honey, to which add half a teaspoon of baking soda. To prepare the decoction, take a teaspoon of seeds and boil in a glass of water.
These are the recommendations for pulmonary edema included in the Encyclopedia of Traditional Medicine.
A folk remedy recommended for pulmonary edema: pour 4 teaspoons of flaxseed into 1 liter of water. Boil, remove the pan from the heat, wrap in a warm blanket, let it brew, strain. Add lemon juice for taste. Drink 1-/2 glasses 6 times a day approximately every 2-2.5 hours warm. The product is soft.
1. Cucumbers are recommended to be included in the diet of patients with dropsy and edema associated with heart disease.
2. Watermelon pulp is considered an excellent diuretic for edema associated with cardiovascular diseases and kidney diseases. also use a decoction of watermelon rinds.
3. Decoction of garden parsley seeds. The seeds are pre-ground into powder. Pour four teaspoons of seeds into one glass of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes, cool, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 4-6 times a day.
4. Infusion of parsley herb and root. The infusion is prepared at the rate of 20 g of crushed raw materials per 1 glass of boiling water, drink 1/2 glass 3 times a day before meals.
5. Infusion of lovage roots. Boil 40 g of dried lovage roots in 1 liter for 7-8 minutes, leave in a warm place for 20 minutes. Take fresh 4 times a day. Use for edema of cardiac and renal origin to improve heart function. 6. Fresh horsetail juice. Plants are collected early in the morning before the dew falls. Wash, scald with boiling water, pass through a meat grinder, squeeze out the juice and boil for 2-3 minutes. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day. Keep refrigerated .
The famous doctor P. M. Kurennoye recommends:
Folk remedy for swelling in the legs
Drink a decoction of flaxseed. 4 teaspoons of seeds per liter of water. Boil for 10-15 minutes. Close the pan and place in a warm place. Let it brew for one hour. You don't have to strain it. For taste, you can add lemon or some other fruit juice. Drink half a glass every two hours 6-8 times a day. The result is achieved in two or three weeks. It's better to drink hot.
Swelling, fall from the bridge onto a white bone, From a white bone onto red meat, From red meat onto a thin hair, From a thin hair onto green grass. There nine cubits will go to the side and to the ground. Everyone will be there. Everyone will be there.
- Swelling, fall from the bridge to the bone, from the bone to the meat, from the meat to the hair, from the hair to the green grass. There nine cubits will go sideways and into the ground. Everyone will be there. Everyone will be there.
Calendula. Calendula preparations are used for heart diseases to relieve swelling, palpitations and shortness of breath. For preparation and use, see above.
Kalina. A decoction of viburnum fruits increases urination and increases the power of the heartbeat.
Infusion: 2 tbsp. spoons of fruits pour 200 ml of boiling water, heat in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool at room temperature for 45 minutes, strain. Take 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day.
Viburnum fruits are eaten with honey or in its pure form for hypertension.
Kidney tea in the form of an infusion has a diuretic effect. At the same time, a large amount of uric acid, urea and chlorides is released from the body. You should drink kidney tea for a long time (up to six months) with weekly monthly breaks.
Infusion: 2 tbsp. spoons of herbs pour 300 ml of boiling water, boil in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool at room temperature for 45 minutes, strain. Take warm, 0.5 cups 3 times a day. The effect of kidney tea increases if it is taken in combination with horsetail herb, lingonberry leaves, and birch leaves.
Kirkazok. Infusions, decoctions and tincture of Kirkazon are used in folk medicine as a diuretic, as well as for dropsy and shortness of breath. In small doses, Kirkazone preparations reduce blood pressure and relieve increased excitability.
Infusion: pour 1 teaspoon of crushed roots with a glass of boiling water, leave overnight in a warm place, strain. Take the entire dose throughout the day in 3-4 doses.
Decoction: 2 teaspoons of crushed root, pour 500 ml of boiling water and boil for 15 minutes over low heat. Leave for 2 hours, strain. Drink 1/4 cup 4 times a day.
Tincture: pour 1 teaspoon of dry herb into a glass of vodka and leave in a dark place for 7 days. Strain. Take 20 drops 3-4 times a day.
Lettuce and wild lettuce. Lettuce preparations are taken as a diuretic for edema of any origin, as well as for insomnia, convulsive conditions, shortness of breath (bronchial asthma) and for some nervous diseases.
Infusion: pour 0.5 teaspoon of herb with a glass of boiling water, leave for 2 hours, strain. Drink 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day.
Carefully! The plant is poisonous!
Blue cornflower. In official medicine, an infusion of cornflower flowers is used as a diuretic for edema of cardiac and renal origin.
Infusion: pour 1 teaspoon of flowers with 1 glass of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 0.5 cups 3 times a day.
Astragalus wooliflora. Infusions and decoctions of astragalus are used in folk medicine for chronic circulatory failure accompanied by edema, hypertension and increased excitability.
Infusion: 2 tbsp. spoons of herbs pour 200 ml of boiling water, heat in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool at room temperature for 45 minutes, strain. Drink 2 tbsp. spoons 3 times a day.
Common swallowtail. It is used in folk medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, for palpitations and high blood pressure. For preparation and use, see above.
Take orally with 1 teaspoon of honey 2 times a day, 2 drops of one of the essential oils: lemon, cypress, rosemary, lavender. .
Take a bath with the same oils (6 - 7 drops). Rub the area of swelling with one of the essential oils of lemon, grapefruit, orange, mint, and eucalyptus. If there is swelling on the face, rub with aromatic essential oil (3-4 drops of lemon or orange essential oils per 30 ml of vegetable oil). It is also recommended to apply cold lotions with essential oils of lemon, orange, geranium or grapefruit to the area of edema (no more than 2 drops of one of the oils).
Acute cerebral edema is caused primarily by closed (concussions, bruises, compression of the brain) and open craniocerebral injuries, toxic effects - poisoning with alcohol and its surrogates, drugs, etc. Brain edema is characterized by an acute increase in intracranial pressure with drowsiness, difficulty orientation in place and time, inappropriate behavior; everything can end in a coma, i.e. an unconscious state with a lack of response to any stimuli. Tendon, periosteal and corneal reflexes are either reduced or absent; in the terminal stage, cardiac activity is weakened and blood pressure decreases.
Differential diagnosis. Since the nature of emergency care for cerebral edema has some peculiarities, coma caused by cerebral edema should be differentiated from comas of other origins.
1. In an alcoholic coma, the smell of alcohol from the mouth, cyanosis of the face and hands are noted (but there is a combination of alcoholic coma with a skull injury).
2. Uremic coma develops gradually and is characterized by pale skin and the smell of urine from the mouth.
3. With hepatic coma: jaundice, enlarged liver, spider veins and spider veins on the skin.
4. Diabetic coma is characterized by the smell of acetone from the mouth, sharp, noisy breathing, dry skin, soft eyeballs.
5. In hypoglycemic coma, breathing is normal, profuse sweating, clonic convulsions.
Emergency care for cerebral edema:
1) local hypothermia - the head should be covered with ice packs or other sources of cold;
2) 20-40 ml of 40% glucose is administered intravenously;
3) administration of Lasix from 20 to 40 ml in saline solution;
4) administration of glucocorticoids - 30-60 mg of prednisolone; 6-8 ml dexamethasone;
5) in the complex treatment of cerebral edema, oxygen inhalation and intravenous administration of a piracetam solution from 10 to 20 ml are of great importance. The patient should be hospitalized in a neurological hospital, and in case of a skull injury - in a neurosurgical hospital. Brain edema of toxic origin (poisoning), especially in the presence of coma, requires hospitalization in the intensive care unit or toxicology department.
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The most common cause of leg swelling is problems with blood circulation (especially heart failure), when the outflow of blood from the periphery to the right atrium is disrupted and there is stagnation in the main artery. Due to an increase in venous pressure, water leaks from the vessels to the tissues through the venous network, causing them to increase in volume.
Edema in heart failure is highly dependent on body position. Patients who are often in a supine position complain of swelling in the lumbar region, and in walking patients the ankles swell first, then the legs, the swelling progresses from bottom to top.
A characteristic feature of cardiac edema or cardiac congestion remains the fact that this symptom worsens during the day. Night rest brings relief to the patient.
To carry out treatment, it is necessary to remove excess fluid from the body, normalize the amount of sodium in the blood and support the functioning of the heart. Traditional medicine can effectively cope with this task.
Large swellings are visible to the naked eye. To recognize smaller ones, you can do a simple test: use your fingers to pinch the skin over the shin bone. If the resulting dimple persists for several seconds, it is a sign that the leg is swollen.
To reduce leg swelling due to heart failure, follow these recommendations:
Note that excess weight only aggravates the problem. Therefore, try to get rid of extra pounds.
To reduce swelling, home remedies for external and internal use are used. External medications tone blood vessels and reduce the permeability of their walls. Internal remedies remove excess water (they produce a diuretic effect) and normalize blood circulation.
Take two buckets. Fill one with hot water and the other with cold water. Soak your feet in hot water for 10 minutes and then quickly plunge them into a bowl of ice water. You need to keep your feet cold for about 30 seconds. Repeat this process several times a day. If the procedure is performed regularly, the swelling will decrease significantly.
Effective treatment of edema can be achieved through gentle massage of the feet and ankles. Use vegetable oils for this. Massage improves blood circulation, activates fluid circulation in the body, which, in turn, reduces swelling. Mix 25 ml rosemary oil with 150 ml olive oil. Apply the resulting mixture to your feet and massage. Move from bottom to top, performing smooth circular and rubbing movements.
Place potato slices or cabbage leaves in the freezer for half an hour, and then wrap them around your calves (the bandage should not be tight). These plants will “draw out” the water and reduce discomfort. The patient can apply such a compress overnight, then the next day the legs will be rested and the swelling will disappear or be less noticeable.
Compresses made from gauze soaked in a vinegar solution (2 tablespoons per glass of water) also help well. This treatment must be continued continuously (or until you are cured of heart failure).
Pour half a glass of dry chestnut leaves into 500 ml of vodka. Set the mixture aside for a week in a dark place, then strain. You need to take this tincture three times a day, half a teaspoon. It will strengthen the blood vessels, and over time, swelling will bother you less and less.
Butcher's broom not only relieves swelling, but also fights cardiovascular insufficiency and has a mild diuretic effect. To carry out treatment, boil the root of this plant in water (a teaspoon per 200 ml of liquid). Take no more than 200 ml of the drug per day (it is divided into several servings and drunk between meals). The course of admission is every other day.
An ointment made from the leaves and stems of butcher's broom will help remove swelling. Grind the vegetable raw materials, mix with the same amount of lard and boil in a steam bath for an hour. The ointment is applied twice a day.
Physalis is rarely eaten in our country. But in vain: with the help of this plant you can get rid of edema, high blood pressure and heart failure. It is recommended to eat 15 pieces of fresh fruit per day (dividing them into several servings).
Traditional medicine also recommends using an infusion of dried physalis caps and leaves. Brew a spoonful of the crushed plant in boiling water, leave covered for 15 minutes, then drink with honey. Treatment lasts 3-6 weeks, depending on the severity of symptoms.
Herbal remedies that act not only on lymph flow and blood flow, but also on cardiac activity will help relieve swelling. Use this recipe:
Mix the herbs thoroughly and prepare a decoction from them. To do this, throw a tablespoon of the mixture into a pan in which 200 ml of water is boiling, cover with a lid and cook for 3 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat and cool slightly. Drink a warm decoction in the morning and evening, 15 minutes after meals. In about a month the swelling will go away.
This recipe also helps:
Mix the herbs thoroughly and use to prepare the infusion. Brew a teaspoon of the mixture in a glass of boiling water, leave for 10 minutes, drink a glass three times a day. The swelling will go away within a few days after starting to use the infusion. The course of treatment is 2 months.
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Today, knee swelling or inflammation of the knee joint is common. Additional symptoms include redness of the kneecap and pain in the back of the leg. The process proceeds in different ways, causing damage for all sorts of reasons.
When your knee hurts, you should urgently consult a doctor; damage to the knee joint is considered a complex disease. Failure to provide medical care or self-medication will lead to chronic illness.
Let's consider the main causes of the violation:
Swelling of the knee brings a lot of inconvenience and trouble, movement is difficult, and pain occurs. With visible damage caused by trauma, the diagnosis is easy to make, but with the internal course of the disease, the causes are difficult to determine, and you have to perform a complex and painful procedure called puncture. It allows you to accurately determine the diagnosis of leg disease.
Other methods are used to make a diagnosis: fluoroscopic examination in the absence of soft tissue wounds, arthroscopy method. More often, leg injuries below the hip can be sustained at home or while playing sports. There are several types of injury to this area of the leg:
When a knee injury occurs, it is important to get the help you need immediately. The sooner you start treatment and relieve pain, the higher the guarantee that you will avoid surgery. The leg below the hip is tightly bandaged with an elastic band or a gauze bandage is applied. The leg must be fixed below the hip in the condition in which it is located.
To relieve sharp pain in the knee area and behind, you should cool the injury site by applying an ice pack. It is important not to cause hypothermia of the joint, avoiding serious complications later. If the pain is severe, it is acceptable to take a painkiller. Then you need to call an ambulance.
In the case of a simple blow, a bandage and recovery actions will suffice. If there is a dislocation, the joint is initially reduced, after which treatment continues in the standard manner.
Injury to the meniscus and ligaments requires surgery. For all cases, vitamins and amino acids are prescribed, baths or warm herbal compresses are made, and a course of leg massage below the thigh is given.
The calyx disease must be treated seriously, preventing the onset of a type of arthritis - bursitis, which, if severe, can completely limit movement. If treatment is not thorough enough, the disease becomes chronic and the knee constantly hurts.
After providing first aid, eliminating pain, and going to the hospital, the doctor makes a diagnosis using an appropriate method and prescribes treatment. Anti-inflammatory drugs are used for treatment. Sometimes it is necessary to perform operations, the method of arthroscopy is used.
In case of an insect bite, the causes of arthritis are of two types, directly from the knee bite and due to a general disease. It is recommended to first remove the sting, clean the wound, apply ice below the thigh to relieve pain, then wipe the bite with a solution of baking soda, relieving the itching.
There are two types of infectious arthritis:
Treatment of the disease is carried out under the supervision of a doctor using modern antibiotics prescribed after examining the tests taken.
Allergic arthritis, or polyarthritis, occurs when substances that cause allergies penetrate. Swelling of the knee in this case is accompanied by a rash and nausea - typical symptoms. Treatment is with antihistamines, diphenhydramine and suprastin.
Before treating a disease with folk remedies, it is necessary to accurately diagnose the disease. Based on the disease, treatment methods for the leg are determined: restrictions on physical activity or, conversely, a series of exercises to strengthen the leg muscles.
There is a need for dietary restrictions. You should avoid salt, drink tea with a diuretic effect, take anti-inflammatory baths with eucalyptus or calendula, and use therapeutic fasting.
There are many known methods to treat inflammation with folk remedies. Here are the favorites:
Treatment with folk remedies is effective only if agreed with the attending physician. Often the methods are not enough; the progressive method of arthroscopy is used.
If the swelling is not related to injury, a medical examination is ordered. Usually the arthroscopy method is used, which is a micro-surgery. Three small incisions are made, the torn tendons are sutured, accumulated fluid is removed, and the joint returns to normal functioning.
The arthroscopy method provides a number of significant advantages:
The postoperative period does not last long and depends on the quality of the operation and the patient’s activity in using restorative procedures. Heaviness and active games are contraindicated during this period.
Rarely, the arthroscopy method can cause complications that cannot be ignored:
When the injury to the knee joint is severe, the arthroplasty method is used, which is a precision surgical intervention with the intention of restoring the natural mobility of the knee using an artificial knee joint.
The arthroplasty method allows the use of an artificial joint that exactly performs the functions of a natural organ. Partial joint replacement is possible. The use of unicondylar endoprosthetics provides the opportunity to preserve one's own bone tissue, ligaments, cartilage and muscles. Only damaged cartilage is replaced.
The endoprosthesis replacement method is considered progressive. In case of significant damage to the knee joint, articulated prostheses are used, which completely replace the natural prosthesis. In complex cases, the endoprosthesis replacement operation is performed using complex computer programs, which increases the service life of the prosthesis, reduces the risk of inaccurate installation, increasing the quality of the operation and the functioning of the prosthesis after it.