Knee xanthomonitis

Knee synovitis is a type of aseptic inflammation of the knee joint. The importance of the knee determines that once this part suffers from knee synovitis, it will have a great impact on normal life. In fact, severe knee synovitis can lead to limited knee function, and in this case it must be treated as soon as possible. Let’s take a look at the main causes, diagnosis and treatment of knee ulcers.

Causes

1. In young and middle-aged people, it is mostly caused by acute trauma and chronic injury. Acute trauma includes: knee sprain, meniscus injury, collateral ligament or cruciate ligament injury, joint effusion or sometimes blood accumulation, manifested as acute traumatic synovitis of the knee.

2. Synovitis is common in the elderly, mainly due to mechanical and biochemical stimulation caused by cartilage degeneration and bone hyperplasia, which leads to synovial edema, exudation and effusion.

3. Sometimes it may be caused by simple synovial injury of the knee joint or long-term chronic knee strain, which can cause gradual swelling and dysfunction of the knee joint, and then form chronic knee synovitis.

4. Infection, among which synovial tuberculosis infection is the most common. Generally speaking, the synovium is rich in blood vessels, has good blood circulation, and has strong resistance to bacteria. However, when infected with tuberculosis bacteria, the disease progresses slowly and its symptoms vary from time to time.

Clinical manifestations

Knee synovitis has no age limit and can occur at any age. For young people, they usually have a large amount of exercise, so they are prone to swelling, pain, difficulty in movement, limping, high local skin temperature, swollen and tense skin, or bloody fluid after joint puncture due to impact, twisting, and excessive exercise of the knee joint during exercise.

diagnosis

Examination revealed limited flexion and extension of the knee joint, difficulty in squatting and pain, localized tenderness around the joint, and a positive floating patella test. Chronic traumatic synovium may have no obvious history of trauma, and the main symptoms are weakness and limited movement of the knee joint, persistent swelling, and fear of squatting. It gets worse with increased activity and gets better with rest. Patients with long-term illness may feel thickening of the knee joint capsule. For patients with excessive or recurrent knee joint effusion, a joint effusion examination can be performed, which can reflect the nature and severity of the synovitis. Therefore, joint puncture and synovial fluid examination are of great reference value for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of knee synovitis.

treat

1. Timely detection and timely treatment

2. Western medicine mainly treats knee synovitis by taking oral medications, intra-articular

Injection of drugs and flushing, surgery, etc.

3. Traditional Chinese medicine external application therapy, massage therapy, etc.