What symptom does osteoarthritis have

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Osteoarthritis is not unfamiliar to everyone. It is a common disease in the elderly group. The early symptoms are mild, and there will be slight pain, which will be relieved after rest. Therefore, many patients will ignore the early pain, which will lead to the aggravation of the disease and affect the later rehabilitation. Here is to introduce the typical symptoms of osteoarthritis, I hope you can find the disease in time.

What symptom does osteoarthritis have

First, the joint pain is mild and moderate at first, and then the pain is gradually aggravated, with tearing or needling pain. Pain often occurs during activities, especially when walking up and down stairs, holding heavy objects and walking for a long distance, joint pain is obvious, sometimes "soft leg" phenomenon appears. In addition, joint pain is particularly obvious when it rains on cloudy days, which can easily be regarded as "rheumatism". In fact, most of them are osteoarthritis. Severe patients also have pain in their joints at rest, and often wake up at night with pain, making it difficult to fall asleep.

Second: joint swelling, deformity, joint friction sound during activity are also symptoms of osteoarthritis, characterized by thickening and hypertrophy of joint synovium, thickening of joint capsule wall, and fibrous hyperplasia. The most typical are "O" legs and "X" legs, as well as duck step swing left and right. When you swing your legs in a chair, you can hear the friction sound of "click" in the joints.

Third: limited joint activity, dyskinesia, get up in the morning or sedentary stand up, the sick joint stiffness tight, need to rub a joint, slowly move for a period of time before the symptoms ease or disappear, this is called "morning stiffness" in medicine. The duration of morning stiffness is generally short, less than 30 minutes. In addition, if you can't stand up immediately after sitting for a long time, you need one hand to support your knees and the other hand to support the objects around you.

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When pain occurs, it usually changes from light to moderate intermittent pain. Pain generally occurs when the human body is in activity. However, it will disappear slowly after rest, and the pain will develop slowly. When it is serious, it will appear sustainable pain, and even acupuncture like pain. It will not subside after rest, and it will wake up when resting at night. Rest pain or nocturnal pain are prominent in the inflammatory stage.