Symptoms of osteoarthritis in the elderly

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Recently, I often feel sore in my leg joints, which may be caused by riding motorcycles. Sometimes my knee joints or elbow joints of my hands are painful, and the joints are obviously swollen when they are painful. I went to ask the doctor, and the doctor said it was osteoarthritis. Now the disease has a certain control, for the elderly osteoarthritis symptoms, let me tell you.

Symptoms of osteoarthritis in the elderly

First: the joints are stiff. Some people suddenly feel that some joints can't rotate like a lock after sitting for a long time. This situation in the morning after getting up, as well as a long period of time after no exercise is particularly obvious, hand and foot stiffness is often a phenomenon in patients with arthritis.

Second: limited joint activity. If you touch one or some joints of the body, you may suffer from osteoarthritis and may be in the early stage.

Third: joint swelling and deformation, due to the distribution of many nerve endings on the synovium as pain sensors, the pain information transmitted to the cerebral cortex, the synovium will secrete more synovial fluid to lubricate and nourish those injured synovial tissue. Joint space effusion increased, resulting in swelling, make the pain worse, and even difficult to turn the joint. When a joint degenerates, the synovium of the joint is often inflamed.

matters needing attention

For patients with early detection of osteoarthritis, try to cooperate with the doctor treatment, go to the regular hospital treatment, take advantage of early treatment, in order to avoid further deepening of the disease, it is not good for patients and their relatives, also hope that patients with osteoarthritis recover as soon as possible.