Treatment of 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. Here's how to treat osteoarthritis.

Treatment of osteoarthritis

First: physical therapy. Steam bath, hot spring bath, hyperthermia, etc. have short-term relief effect on patients' stiffness and pain symptoms. Acupuncture and massage can also reduce the symptoms of osteoarthritis.

Second: Traditional Chinese medicine external application method of black plaster has large drug loading, strong penetration, can take effect for a long time, and has little side effect on patients. Compared with the western medicine therapy, it has obvious curative effect, complete efficacy, convenient use, safe and reliable advantages. The external application of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of arthritis aims at dispelling wind and dispersing cold, relieving spasm and dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. At the same time, it also needs to warm the kidney and help Yang, strengthen the body and strengthen the foundation, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening tendons and bones and eradicating arthritis.

Third: the operation method is suitable for patients with joint spasm, atrophy, deformity and damage in the late stage. The operation risk is high, and the trauma area of the operation method is relatively large. As most patients with arthritis are over 60 years old, it should be used with caution.

matters needing attention

Eat more sulfur-containing food, such as asparagus, eggs, garlic, onions. Because the repair and reconstruction of bone, cartilage and connective tissue need sulfur as raw material, and sulfur also helps to absorb calcium.