What does osteoarthritis feel like

summary

My grandmother often felt stiff knee two years ago, and then gradually felt that the knee was cold and painful. She went to the hospital to check for osteoarthritis. She took some drugs, and the effect was very good. Let's introduce what osteoarthritis feels like.

What does osteoarthritis feel like

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.