What are the symptoms of traumatic synovitis

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My father's legs are not very good these days, because he had a car accident very early. Of course, now he has a relapse, and then it has something to do with synovitis. It seems that it's also traumatic synovitis. Now let's popularize the symptoms of traumatic synovitis.

What are the symptoms of traumatic synovitis

First, synovium is a layer of connective tissue with rich blood vessels. In addition to articular cartilage and meniscus, it covers most of the structures in the joint, including the inner side of the joint fibrous capsule, the surface of intra-articular ligaments and tendons, and the intra-articular bone surface. Most of the knee synovitis, is in the above various knee joint injuries and other circumstances, but also can be isolated or secondary to knee osteoarthritis, the latter is mostly elderly.

Second, most young people have a history of acute knee injury. After injury, the knee began to develop mild edema, pain, limited movement and claudication. Usually in 6-8 hours after injury, synovial fluid reaction, knee swelling, fever, dare not move. It was found that the flexion and extension of knee joint was limited, squatting was difficult and accompanied with pain, and there were limited pressure pain points around the joint, and the floating patella test was positive.

Third: chronic injury synovium, may have no obvious history of trauma, the main performance of knee weakness and limited activity, swelling continued, dare not squat. When the activity increased, it increased and decreased after rest. In the case of long-term illness, the hypertrophy of the knee joint capsule can be felt. Synovitis is mainly caused by knee sprain and a variety of intra-articular injuries, such as meniscus injury, synovial injury, cruciate ligament or collateral ligament injury, intra-articular effusion or sometimes hematocele, showing acute knee traumatic synovitis.

matters needing attention

The appearance of traumatic synovitis will cause great inconvenience to patients, especially when they go out at ordinary times, so we should pay attention not to carry out strenuous exercise recently, pay more attention to rest, and take time to the orthopedic department of the hospital as soon as possible for examination and diagnosis. These kinds of knee joint injuries are complicated, but they can also occur alone or secondary to knee osteoarthritis, the latter is mostly the elderly.