" Movement is life "! Few would disagree with this.
Scientists have calculated that the average person walks about ten kilometers per day, as a result of which the joints wear out, and with age, joint pain occurs, limiting movement and reducing the standard of living.
It is very difficult to understand the cause of pain, since the human body has 186 joints ( a joint is the junction of two bones), with the help of which we perform various movements. The symptoms may be similar and mislead you, which is why a special doctor needs to deal with this after undergoing an examination.
There are many causes of joint pain, the most common of which are: infectious diseases, injuries, inflammatory changes in the joint, excessive load on the joint, hypothermia, and age-related changes.
According to etiology, joint diseases are divided into:
-inflammatory (rheumatism, arthritis)
Rheumatism – occurs as a result of an infectious disease (for example, a previous sore throat). Accompanied by swelling, pain and stiffness of the joints, increased temperature, in addition, the inflammatory process spreads to the surrounding tissues, tendons, and ligaments. It is a very serious disease, treatment is long and only under the supervision of a doctor.
Rheumatoid arthritis is inflammation of the joint. There are about a hundred different types of arthritis, the first place among them is “wear and tear” arthritis, most often it affects older people and athletes. It is also characterized by: pain, swelling, redness around the joint.
Arthrosis - occurs due to injury to the joint, frequent heavy loads on it (this often occurs in athletes). On the surface of the altered joint, peculiar “spikes” grow, which cause pain even with slight movement.
In what cases should you immediately consult a doctor?:
- severe pain that limits movement
- swelling, redness in the joint area
- increased temperature, fever
- pain that does not go away for more than 5-7 days
After consulting with a doctor, you will be prescribed drug therapy, but you yourself can do a lot to relieve suffering.
Do not make sudden movements that cause pain.
“If you're in pain and you tense up, the pain gets worse,” says Beth Siebel , an Arizona-based psychologist who specializes in stress and pain relief. “People who can control themselves cope better with pain than those who don’t.”
Recent research has reinforced the need for a psychological approach to arthritis pain relief. Dr. Siebel has been preaching this for a long time. Here are some of her tips.
“ People with arthritis need to learn to pace themselves and not try to do everything they can on days when they feel better ,” she says. – Doing everything will make you tired and you will feel bad the next day. Try to do a little every day, whether you feel bad or good .”
“ Take part in classes for pre-birthers ,” says Dr. Siebel. “ Childbirth is very painful, but women learn to cope with this pain through relaxation .” She notes that many stores sell books or audiotapes that teach relaxation techniques. Dr. Siebel also believes that joints that don't work can become painful.
“If you focus all your attention on the pain, it will hurt more and more, but if you do something important to you, you won’t feel pain,” she says.
Therapeutic exercises (possibly with a specialist) or simply exercises with a sedentary lifestyle.
Exercising in the pool helps to reduce pain.
Losing excess body weight will speed up your recovery and you will immediately feel relief. If you lose weight, the load on your spine, knees, and ankles will significantly decrease.
Heat or cold therapy is usually prescribed by a doctor for a specific case. These procedures help significantly reduce pain.
Some of grandma's recipes.
Cabbage leaf compress with honey.
Cabbage leaf, heat and spread with a thin layer of honey. Apply to the sore joint. We put a piece of cellophane on the sheet, secure it with a bandage, and put a scarf or scarf on top for warmth. The effect usually appears within 2-3 applications.
Action on reflex points.
“Put chestnuts in your clothing pockets and squeeze them in your hands from time to time. This way you will massage the reflex points. This kind of exercise helps with rheumatic pain.”
People became familiar with rheumatism of the joints in ancient times, but its true nature and clinical picture became clear to doctors not so long ago. For quite a long time, official medicine considered rheumatism to be a disease of the joints, causing complications on the heart.
After research conducted in 1836, indisputable evidence emerged that rheumatism, in addition to the joints, mercilessly affects the heart and pericardium (heart sac). In honor of two researchers who independently established the pattern of heart damage, joint rheumatism became known as Sokolsky-Buyo disease.
Why does rheumatism occur and what is it? In most cases, rheumatism occurs in people who have suffered an acute inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory tract. Additional accompanying factors are hypothermia and high humidity. Most often, people experience rheumatism of the joints, medically called rheumatic arthritis.
10–20 days after suffering an acute or chronic streptococcal infection (tonsillitis, pharyngitis, scarlet fever, tonsillitis), acute articular rheumatism develops. This is a consequence of the production of specific antibodies in response to the appearance of pathogen toxins in the blood. Such antibodies are designed to fight streptococcus, but mistakenly affect the body’s own connective tissue cells.
Studies have shown that such reactions do not occur in everyone who has had a sore throat, but only in carriers of a special protein of group B. According to the observations of doctors, about 2.5% of patients experience rheumatism of the joints within a month after an infectious disease.
A peculiarity of this disease is the fact that there is a clear connection with a previous streptococcal infection. Symptoms of rheumatism of the joints appear 2-4 weeks after the infectious process (sore throat, tonsillitis, etc.). The pain in the joint is very strong and movement in it is very difficult. Sometimes even a slight touch to it causes severe pain.
The disease mainly affects large joints:
In addition to the appearance of acute pain, redness appears at the joint site, and the temperature of the affected area rises. As the disease develops, the symptoms intensify, so the pain becomes stronger and more frequent, which is why the patient practically does not move, and touching the joint causes even more suffering. Also, the temperature rises not only in the affected anatomical area, but throughout the body, up to 39-40 degrees.
Quite often, signs of rheumatism develop in several joints at the same time, which significantly complicates the course of the disease and treatment. If rheumatism is noticed in time, its development can be stopped, which means that only two or three joints will have time to suffer.
The duration of the active rheumatic process is 3-6 months, sometimes much longer. Depending on the severity of clinical symptoms and the nature of the course of the disease, three degrees of activity of the rheumatic process are distinguished:
Rheumatism is characterized by relapses of the disease (repeated attacks), which occur under the influence of infections, hypothermia, and physical stress. The clinical manifestations of relapses resemble the primary attack, but the signs of damage to blood vessels and serous membranes are less pronounced; symptoms of heart damage predominate.
If the symptoms of joint rheumatism are mild, a set of instrumental studies should be carried out:
Remember, the symptoms of rheumatism are the first thing you need to pay attention to. The patient may note that a few weeks ago he had a sore throat or some other infectious disease. In addition, with this disease he will complain of fever, increased fatigue, and joint pain. The last complaint is most often the reason the patient consults a doctor.
Patients are treated in a hospital setting, where complex therapy is carried out, including:
When the acute stage has passed, you may be prescribed physiotherapy:
Self-treatment of this disease at home is fraught with serious consequences.
The success of treatment will largely depend on the correct choice of drug therapy. As mentioned above, several types of drugs with different effects are used to treat rheumatism of the joints:
All means used for treatment are effective, but have certain contraindications. Therefore, to minimize their harmful effects from long-term use and increase the effectiveness of therapy, comprehensive treatment is prescribed. It is carried out under the strict supervision of a doctor.
After relief of the symptoms of inflammation, the main goal of treatment is to prevent complications from the joints (chronic inflammation, stiffness, joint fusions (ankylosis), etc.). To achieve this goal, the patient begins to do exercise therapy: already in bed, he moves his limbs, working out the affected joint and returning it to its full range of motion. As your condition improves, the volume of exercise and its intensity increase.
Also, in the subacute phase, doctors prescribe massage and various methods of physiotherapy (electrophoresis, UHF, laser - to speed up the body’s recovery after inflammation and quickly relieve swelling).
Doctors recommend following diet No. 15, increasing the protein component of the diet and reducing the amount of carbohydrates and salt consumed. Don’t forget about fruits and vegetables, drink warm drinks: raspberry tea, linden decoction.
It is recommended to exclude from the diet:
Products containing B vitamins, vitamin C, P and PP are needed. Fish and meat can be boiled or stewed.
If left untreated, rheumatic heart disease occurs.
Abnormalities in the heartbeat and pulse rate, pain in the heart and irregular heart rhythms indicate that inflammation of the heart tissue is developing, accompanied by shortness of breath, sweating and weakness.
Other consequences of untreated chronic rheumatism of the joints include:
Rheumatism is a disease whose development is easier to prevent than to deal with its manifestations for many years.
To do this, you need to take preventive measures:
Rheumatic disease is a serious pathological process that is accompanied by the formation of inflammation. This disease can affect various organs. Characteristic manifestations of the disease are pain and general malaise. Treatment of the disease should be comprehensive and prescribed only by an experienced specialist after a thorough diagnosis. Only if you follow all the recommendations can you overcome the disease.
In this article I will tell you about joint rheumatism : we will talk about its symptoms and treatment , and discuss some misconceptions associated with this disease.
Very often, upon entering my office, a middle-aged man or woman declares from the threshold: “Doctor, my joints hurt. It’s probably rheumatism.” As a specialist, such statements always make me smile, because in fact, rheumatism is much less common than people imagine.
In addition, rheumatism is a disease of children and adolescents aged 6 to 15 years. The chance of getting this disease in those over 30 years old is almost zero. And even in the classic age group for rheumatism of children 6-15 years old, only one child in a thousand suffers from it.
The question arises: if rheumatism is so rare, why do we hear this term so often? Most likely, the “memory of our ancestors” is taking its toll. In earlier times, rheumatoid arthritis was more common. But over the past 50 years, thanks to the advent of antibiotics and the efforts of medicine, the incidence of rheumatism in our country has decreased several times.
The second reason why rheumatism was mentioned much more often in earlier times relates to the category of literature. Previously, the word “rheumatism” meant any joint diseases - arthrosis and arthritis.
Doctors simply did not need to differentiate different joint diseases - after all, in most cases they were all treated with the same methods, since the choice of healing procedures was small. Fortunately, now the capabilities of medicine have increased significantly. And in our time, not a single competent rheumatologist or arthrologist will confuse the manifestations of true rheumatism with the symptoms of any other disease.
Manifestations of rheumatism are very characteristic. As already mentioned, mainly children and adolescents get sick. The disease usually develops 1-3 weeks after a streptococcal infection of the upper respiratory tract: after pharyngitis (inflammation of the pharynx), tonsillitis or tonsillitis (inflammation of the tonsils).
Streptococcal infection does not always manifest itself clearly. Sometimes it occurs latently and atypically, with minimal fever and mild sore throat, so often in such cases doctors diagnose acute respiratory infections and do not provide antistreptococcal treatment. Meanwhile, an untreated streptococcal infection, especially if it occurs repeatedly and against the background of reduced immunity, can lead to joint rheumatism. And a few days after suffering from a sore throat or pharyngitis, inflammation of any large joints occurs: knees, wrists, ankles, elbows and shoulders (small joints of the fingers or toes are rarely affected by rheumatism).
In this case, the joints become inflamed in turn . Let's say, first the knee joint becomes inflamed. Then, after a few hours or days, this inflammation disappears, but another joint becomes inflamed, then a third, etc. It is this alternating “flaring” of the joints that is the “calling card of rheumatism.” Moreover, inflammation of the joints is in the nature of a short-term attack, the duration of which rarely exceeds 10-12 days. But there are usually several such attacks, and, worst of all, each such attack ultimately hits not so much the joints as the heart.
The consequence of rheumatism not cured in time most often becomes rheumatic heart disease (rheumatic inflammation of the heart). Rheumatic carditis can be mild, moderate and severe. The process involves the heart muscle (myocarditis), the lining of the heart (pericarditis) and the heart valves.
In mild forms of rheumatic carditis, not the entire heart is affected, but only certain areas of the heart muscle. The blood circulation of the heart is not impaired, and external manifestations of the disease are usually absent. This form of the disease is the most common and usually goes unnoticed.
With moderate rheumatic carditis, the heart muscle is more severely affected; the heart moderately hypertrophies (increases in size). Patients note discomfort in the chest and behind the sternum, complain of shortness of breath, increased fatigue when climbing stairs and walking (even slowly), and a feeling of palpitations during normal household activities.
With severe rheumatic carditis, the heart weakens even more; its size increases significantly. Patients, even in complete rest, are bothered by pain in the heart, shortness of breath and palpitations; swelling appears in the legs. A severe form of rheumatic carditis very often leads to the appearance of heart defects, that is, to shrinkage of the heart valves.
chorea , a rheumatic lesion of the nervous system in children, can be a consequence of rheumatism not cured in time As a result of chorea, a child or teenager becomes irritable, capricious, absent-minded, and sloppy. His handwriting and gait change, his speech and memory deteriorate, and his sleep is disturbed. In the early period of the illness, parents and teachers tend to attribute such changes in behavior to the child’s capriciousness and indiscipline, and seeking medical attention is postponed. Parents begin to “ring the bells” only when the child develops involuntary twitching of the muscles of the face, torso, arms and legs.
Fortunately, chorea, like rheumatic inflammation of the joints, goes away without a trace over time. And only rheumatic heart disease, if treatment is not started on time, can lead to serious health problems and early disability of the patient. Therefore, it is important to devote all your efforts to treating rheumatism before it has time to strike your heart.
The main task facing us in the treatment of rheumatism is to suppress streptococcal infection, which causes the development of the disease and provokes its numerous complications. Currently, of the entire large group of antibacterial agents, penicillin (bicillin) and its analogues are most often used to treat rheumatism. Active therapy with penicillin usually lasts about two weeks, and then for five years, every three weeks the patient is given one injection of bicillin intramuscularly to prevent rheumatic complications of the heart.
In addition to injectable antibiotics (penicillin and bicillin), tablet forms of “broad-spectrum” antibiotics have been successfully used in recent years for rheumatism. Oxacillin, ampicillin, erythromycin, cephalosporin, and a number of other drugs are very effective for rheumatism.
Along with antibiotics, during the period of joint attack of rheumatism, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed to eliminate joint pain, which act almost immediately and completely eliminate pain.
Typically, rheumatism is so well treated with antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that they are usually sufficient to completely defeat the disease. Only in rare cases do antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs prove to be ineffective. Then you have to resort to extreme measures - prescribe corticosteroid (anti-inflammatory) hormones, which, in combination with antibiotics, suppress rheumatic inflammation literally in a matter of days.
Treating rheumatism in a timely manner and stopping (stopping) its attack is only half the battle. It is more important to prevent repeated attacks and exacerbations of the disease. To do this, it is necessary to pay attention to restoring the body’s defenses, its immunity, as well as preventing the possibility of repeated infections with streptococcal infection, to which a person who previously suffered from rheumatism is especially sensitive. Therefore, all those suffering from rheumatism must be sent to specialized sanatoriums.
After discharge from the sanatorium, within a year or two from the last rheumatic attack , it is advisable to rest in the summer only in your own climatic zone: at the dacha, in rest homes or in sanatoriums (since long trips to foreign climatic zones are associated with inevitable acclimatization and the risk of complications). All this time, doctors do not recommend that people who have suffered an attack of rheumatism sunbathe a lot and swim for a long time in cold water - cold rivers, lakes, etc. You can swim and sunbathe only in such a way as to prevent extreme temperature effects on the body weakened by rheumatism.
It is also undesirable to actively engage in sports in the first few years after suffering a rheumatic attack. Great physical activity leads to overexertion of a heart weakened by disease and accelerates its wear and tear. On the other hand, completely stopping physical education and ignoring hardening also does not improve health. Therefore, you still need to toughen up and exercise, but little by little. When doing physical exercise, a person who has suffered from rheumatism must control his pulse and breathing. If you experience shortness of breath and a pulse rate of more than 120 beats per minute, you must take a break and rest, and only after the pulse has normalized, continue the exercises, but at a slower pace.
To conclude this section, I would like to give the basic rules for preventing repeated rheumatic attacks, which are indicated by scientists from the Institute of Rheumatology in the “Book for Patients with Rheumatic Diseases.” These are the rules. You need:
And for parents of children who have had rheumatism, the same reference book reminds that a calm and friendly environment in the family will help strengthen the child’s health. Which I agree with one hundred percent.
Doctors recommend that all people suffering from rheumatism or having had it, follow diet No. 10 during illness and for another year or two after the last attack of rheumatism. In addition to following diet No. 10, there are additional nutritional rules for those patients whose rheumatism is in the active phase, that is, at the time of exacerbation or during a rheumatic attack.
Since metabolism is disrupted during a rheumatic attack, especially water-salt and carbohydrate metabolic processes, all dishes are prepared without salt or with a minimum of salt. In addition, you need to limit the use of seasonings containing salt (remember that even soy sauce contains a large amount of sodium salt). It is necessary to exclude from the diet or minimize the consumption of dishes containing extractive substances - strong meat and vegetable broths and soups, especially soups from bags or prepared on the basis of bouillon cubes. It is necessary to temporarily limit the consumption of foods containing easily digestible carbohydrates (sugar, jam, honey, confectionery).
Mushrooms, peas, legumes, sorrel and spinach should be practically excluded from the diet. Grapes and grape juice are not recommended for fruits. Meat and fish are recommended only boiled or lightly stewed, and vegetables should be well cooked.
You need to eat little by little, but often - about 5-6 times a day.
In addition, in the acute phase of rheumatism, we need to replenish the loss of vitamins caused by increased vascular permeability in this disease. Vitamins C, P, PP, B1, B2, B6, B12 must be added to the diet. You can include drinks made from brewer's and baker's yeast in your diet, since yeast supplies large doses of natural B vitamins.
Strict adherence to the above nutritional rules must be observed throughout the entire acute phase of the disease and plus 3-5 days after its end. After getting out of the crisis, if you feel well, you can loosen the strict dietary restrictions, but in general you still need to more or less adhere to the above nutritional recommendations.
Article by Dr. Evdokimenko© for the book “Arthritis”, published in 2003.
Arthritis and arthrosis are chronic diseases accompanied by damage to the integrity of the joint structures of the human musculoskeletal system. Although these two types of disease affect the joints, they are not similar diseases that can be treated in identical ways.
In this article we will look at how to treat arthritis and arthrosis and what is the difference between these two diseases.
Arthritis in medicine is an autoimmune inflammatory disease that affects the joints and other internal organs. Worldwide, about 2% of the total population suffers from this type of joint disease.
Arthritis can develop as an independent disease or as an accompanying symptom of another systemic disease, such as gout or rheumatism.
Arthrosis is a chronic disease of the joints, accompanied by gradual deformations of the articular structures. The World Health Organization has published data showing that approximately 10% of the total population experiences this type of pathological skeletal changes. Arthrosis does not spread to the patient’s internal organs.
Arthritis can develop in people of different age categories:
Osteoarthritis usually develops in people over 45 years of age. Almost every 2 inhabitants of the planet who are over 70 are susceptible to developing arthrosis.
Arthritis is provoked by the following factors:
The development of arthrosis is caused by the following factors:
Arthritis affects the following parts of the body:
Arthrosis most likely affects the following joints:
With arthrosis, there is a slow destruction of the cartilage shell inside the joint capsule. When cartilage is destroyed, it is not able to protect the bone fragments (epiphyses of bones) included in the structure of the joint, which leads to further damage and the development of dystrophic pathological changes in the articular structure.
The following symptoms indicate the development of arthritis:
The clinical picture of arthrosis is represented by the following symptoms:
As you can see, the symptoms of arthritis and arthrosis differ in many ways, although the same joints may be affected. Taking into account the symptomatic picture, a qualified rheumatologist will be able to make the correct diagnosis.
Treatment of arthritis and arthrosis involves complex therapy, including the following intervention methods:
Arthritis and arthrosis, which pose a threat to human health, the effective treatment of which depends on timely initiation of therapy, must be eliminated with the help of high-quality medications.
Today, pharmaceutical corporations present effective medicines for arthritis and arthrosis.
The following groups of drugs are used to treat arthrosis:
The following medications are used to treat arthritic joint damage:
In order to prevent complications of the development of arthritis or arthrosis, it is necessary to adhere to the following nutritional principles:
To prevent the development of arthritis and arthrosis, it is necessary to follow the following recommendations from specialists:
You can also learn about the differences between the diseases arthritis and arthrosis from the video provided:
It’s scary to think that joint diseases have been affecting not only adults, but also children over the last two to three decades. What this is connected with is still not fully understood. Most experts associate such sad statistics with poor ecology, poor nutrition, bad habits and a passive lifestyle. In medicine, there are also diseases of the joints that more often affect adolescent children than adults; these most often include rheumatism of the joints.
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Rheumatism of the joints is a disease that localizes damage to the connective tissue of any joints. The disease was first diagnosed by doctors from two countries - France (represented by J.B. Buyo) and Russia (represented by G.I. Sokolsky). The danger of this disease is that it affects people aged 7 to 15 years, and when the acute form of the disease occurs, the heart valves are almost always affected.
Rheumatism affects the joints after suffering from certain diseases, which include viral and bacterial diseases such as tonsillitis, influenza, colds, chronic pharyngitis, scarlet fever. In other words, after damage to the tonsils of the pharynx, suffering from otolaryngological diseases, after two to three weeks, the first symptoms of rheumatism appear. In this case, rheumatism most often affects the large joints (hip, ankle, knee, elbow). Rheumatism of the knee joint is the most common group of rheumatism among people of different ages. At risk are those people who:
Since the disease is more hereditary than acquired, precautionary and preventive measures in this case rarely help, although it is still not worth risking your health and neglecting safety measures.
The causes of this disease are external and internal factors. External factors include the reasons described above (heredity, protein in the blood and infections), while internal factors include:
The symptoms of rheumatism of the joints appear approximately the same in everyone and are somewhat similar to the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis:
The differences between rheumatism of the joints and rheumatoid arthritis are that the latter occurs suddenly (the first sign is swelling), and then the symptoms go away on their own, without additional influence on them. Rheumatism of the joints never goes away on its own, and in the absence of effective treatment, such a disease quickly spreads to the heart valves and other joints.
Treatment of rheumatism and its success depends on the number of affected joints and how soon the symptoms of the disease were noticed.
Readers may have a question: what, everyone who has suffered from colds or infectious diseases has rheumatism? No, not everything; three conditions must “come together” for the disease to occur:
The disease can occur in two forms:
Even “advanced” joint problems can be cured at home! Just remember to apply this once a day.
The acute form is a course of the disease in which all symptoms appear abruptly, and begins precisely with damage to the joints (there are no accompanying viral diseases).
A latent form is one in which rheumatism begins first with damage to the upper respiratory tract, a prolonged cough, fever, the symptoms of rheumatism are mistaken for an ordinary acute respiratory infection or acute respiratory viral infection. Only after long-term treatment, which turned out to be useless, has been completed, aches in the limbs appear. Symptoms persist for several weeks and then disappear. You should not delude yourself about this, since they will still return, and often with renewed vigor, affecting new places and the heart, causing rheumatic heart disease.
How to treat rheumatism of the joints can be determined by a rheumatologist, who divides the treatment into the following stages:
Treatment of rheumatism is a long and troublesome process, consisting of several stages.
Doctors divide the treatment of rheumatism into the following stages:
Traditional medicine helps to overcome rheumatism well. The most popular are the following:
In addition to the above methods, regular green tea, bearberry, daisy and violet flowers, dogwood, and shepherd's purse are also used, from which infusions are made. Treatment of a disease such as rheumatism of the joints with traditional medicine should be started only after drug therapy, either in combination with it, or as a preventative measure for the disease.
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Thus, rheumatism of the joints is one of the few diseases of the joints that can be cured (namely, cured, and not stopped, the processes of deformation and degeneration that have begun). But treatment will be successful when the patient consults a doctor immediately after the first symptoms appear, only one or two joints are affected, and the heart is not affected, otherwise death is possible. The disease most often affects the joints of infants and adolescents, this is due to the fact that in infants all life processes are not active enough, and in adolescents during the period of hormonal changes, the immune system is not able to cope with many infections. This disease does not bypass adults either.
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Joint diseases are divided into hundreds of types, but the most common of them are arthritis and arthrosis. But, despite the consonance in the name, these are two completely different pathologies with different symptoms, course and approach to treatment. The main differences between the diseases arthritis and arthrosis can be divided into groups: signs of diseases, localization of the disease, causes of occurrence, methods of treatment.
As a rule, arthrosis affects the joints that bear the maximum load - the knee joints, spine, hip joints. Arthritis can also be on the fingers, elbows, feet, and almost any joints of the body. Moreover, arthritis can spread from one joint to another.
This is perhaps the main difference, which allows us to understand why these diseases are difficult to confuse. Arthrosis most often occurs due to a large and improper load on the joints, as well as a lack of nutrition to the joints due to blood stagnation. Arthritis can be caused by decreased immunity, stress, flu and other colds and inflammatory diseases. Read more about other joint diseases and their treatment in the article: “Joint diseases: everyone should know this”
Diagnosis of arthritis and arthrosis includes several stages. But an experienced orthopedic doctor, as a rule, will be able to immediately determine the cause of the pain by external signs of changes in the joints and the type of pain. Diagnosis of joint diseases involves:
The results of these studies provide the doctor with a complete clinical picture of the condition of the joints and allow them to make a diagnosis and prescribe effective treatment.
In the case of arthrosis, the treatment will be long-term and aimed at restoring cartilage tissue; here, at the first stage, several courses of chondroprotectors are required to start the regeneration process. A new nutrition system, physiotherapy and exercise therapy are also being gradually introduced. With arthritis, the main thing is to promptly relieve pain and inflammation and prevent the disease from spreading to other joints. Anti-inflammatory and painkillers and physical therapy for arthritis are most effective. The Healthy Joints complex from LifeBox combines anti-inflammatory drugs and chondroprotectors for joints. It is recommended for the treatment of arthritis and arthrosis, tested in Russia and has lasting clinical results.