Arthrosis (osteoart or deforming osteoarthrosis (DOA) or deforming arthrosis)- The disease of the joints, in which the wrist cartilage is affecting the initial phase, then the muscles, ligaments, nerves, as well as bone tissue, are involved in the pathological process.
Arthrosis is a disease that develops due to different causes.They include metabolic disorders, injuries, intoxication, etc.
Patients usually call "arthrosis" any joint disease in which pain, mobility restrictions and other unpleasant sensations in one or more joints, which is not always true.Osteoarthritis and pain associated with them develop as a result of "aging" joints, due to the influence of different negative factors, however, the causes of art pain can be infections and injuries, and in these cases we talk about other pathologies.
Statistics
Up to 70% of patients on the appointment of general practice, therapist, neurologist, surgeon, rheumatologist who complain of articulated pain.It is most often the pain in the lower back and in the area of large joints (knee, hip).Around the world, and especially in Russia, up to 70% of cases of long-term incompetence for work falls on osteoarthritis.There are a lot of patients - up to 10% of those who consisted of a doctor as a result of advanced arthrosis receiving disability and needed constant assistance.Arthrosis is one of the leading reasons for the premature departure from full social life, it is second only for coronary heart disease in statistics.
The probability of the development of arthrosis is growing with age: in people over 50 years in 27% of cases, in older people over 70 years, due to funded old load on the compounds and expiration of their normal functioning.
Causes and development
The main factor in the development of arthrosis is a violation of the diet of articulated cartilage, which leads to its destruction.It is not so important, as a result, this is happening (high surplus weight, professional sport, work characteristics, hormonal disorders, innate joint shortcomings, etc.), the result is the same: the result:
- The articular cartilage start changes that lead to loss of elasticity;Microcracies appear in the thickness of the cartilage;
- The blood supply to the wrist is disturbed, the production of shared liquid is reduced, common mechanics are changing;
- Then all common structures, adjacent muscles and nerve endings are involved.
These degenerative disorders lead to the preparation of arthrosis symptoms, and the disease "starts" currently when the constant mechanical load becomes transcendental for common (or compounds) and initiates the processes of its destruction.
Symptoms
Unlike other common pathologies, Arthrosis has been developing for many years for many years and imperceptibly for people.Currently when the body signals the problem in the joint with strong pain, the pathological process in it has already been started.
The pain is the main symptom of arthrosis (osteoarthrosis), in the initial phases of pain that are not very pronounced, weak, comparable to discomfort.An unpleasant sensation in the joints occur after the load takes place on its own, without any medical or medicinal interventions, but they quickly become tangible and restrict usual human mobility.
Pain may appear at rest or at the very beginning of movement (so -a-iscaded "), for example, in the morning after sleep or after prolonged sitting during the day in one position, when moving, passing.Arthrosis is also characterized by a night's rest, which is also rapidly reduced with the beginning of motor activities.Patients have encountered common problems usually say that they will remove unpleasant sensations, "replace bones," "awaken the joints", which at all, is quite accurately characterized by this condition.
Pain arises not only because of the disruption of the community itself.When all the components, muscles and nerve endings are included in the process, the pain becomes diverse and painful: "shooting" along the nervous spread along the muscles.Supplying blood in the joints, nerves, muscles is disturbed, degenerative changes are rapidly happening in them.
Temporary or constant limitations in joint mobility (contraction) are developed due to serious pathological changes in articulated and muscle tissues.For example, with the arthrosis of the hip joints, shortening limbs, the "curvature" of the pelvis and curvature of the spinal column appear.
Gruč in the joints in the initial phases is almost invisible, but as the disease develops during movement, it becomes constant.This symptom is psychologically about patients with arthrosis even more than pain, as it points to serious disorders, body aging and muscle-bone system separately.
In the later phase of arthrosis, the wrist is deformed, which is associated with loss with curved all joint surfaces, bone growth, reduction of the amount of articulated fluid and joints.
Phase
Depending on the weight of the symptom, several phases of osteoarthrosis are different.
In the first phase, they do not have pain in rest and during moderate load, only after high load (fitness, transmission, running) or after a long static position.The person does not experience restrictions and difficulties in motion.Drug treatment is not necessary.
In the second phase of pain, pronounced and constant, rapidly arise under the influence of the provocated factors (extended walk, physical activity), does not go through themselves.The patient is limited in motion, mobility of certain compounds - knees, hips and others is sharply limited.Medical assistance is needed, treatment mode should be prescribed, including medications and non-social methods.
In the third phase, the patient moves with difficulties, need constant care, painful pain.As a rule, surgical treatment (endoprosthika) and mass physiotherapy for renewing the quality of life are required.
The symptoms of osteoarthritis appear in the young age, and in this case you need not to ignore them, you are already consulted with a doctor.Timely prescribed treatment will support the normal function of compounds and assistance in avoiding the rapid progress of the disease.