What is knee osteoarthritis

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My aunt is 57 years old, suffering from knee osteoarthritis. The affected joints often have tenderness and bony fricative sound, especially the knee pain is serious. She can't walk for long. Sometimes there is a short-term stiffness in the local area, which lasts for no more than 30 minutes. She needs slight activity to relieve the pain. Under the persuasion of his family, the border hospital received professional treatment, and now his condition is under control. Now let's introduce what is knee osteoarthritis.

What is knee osteoarthritis

First, pain is the main symptom of the disease and the main cause of dysfunction. It is characterized by occult attack and persistent dull pain, which often occurs after activity and can be relieved by rest.

Second: as the disease progresses, joint activity can be limited by pain, and even pain can occur at rest.

Third: during sleep, due to muscle damage around the joint, the joint protection function is reduced, and the activity causing pain can not be limited as when awake, so the patient may wake up with pain.

matters needing attention

For the treatment of osteoarthritis, generally conservative treatment should be given priority to, mainly local medication and oral anti-inflammatory drugs, the above-mentioned folk prescription can only be used as a supplement to drug treatment, to remind patients or drug treatment, or traditional Chinese medicine massage method.