What are the classifications of bone and joint diseases?

All human movements depend on the support of bones and joints. Normally, you may not feel anything, but once your bones become painful, swollen, or weak, you will know how important the health of your bones and joints is. The high-risk group for bone and joint diseases is the parents who have worked hard all their lives. Due to the hard work during their youth, aging, and calcium loss, they are more likely to have similar problems. So, as children, you must pay more attention to your parents with bone and joint diseases, avoid fatigue, supplement your diet with more vitamins, trace elements, and calcium, and don't let your joints get cold. In addition, you should also have some understanding of bone and joint diseases so as to better avoid the aggravation of the disease.

1. Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease. Osteoarthritis has many names, such as hypertrophic osteoarthritis, degenerative arthritis, degenerative arthritis, proliferative osteoarthritis or osteoarthritis, all of which refer to the same disease. Osteoarthritis is the unified term used in China. Its prevalence increases with age and is more common in women than in men. Osteoarthritis is most likely to affect the distal and proximal interphalangeal joints of the hands, the knees, elbows, shoulders, and spinal joints, while the wrist and ankle joints are less likely to be affected.

2. Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease characterized by joint synovitis. Persistent and repeated attacks of synovitis can lead to destruction of cartilage and bone within the joint, joint dysfunction, and even disability. Vasculitis lesions affect every organ in the body, so the disease is also called rheumatoid disease. The cause of the disease is still unclear. Some patients are affected by cold, humidity, fatigue, trauma or mental factors during the onset of the disease.

3. Bone hyperplasia

Bone hyperplasia is a manifestation of osteoarthritis and a degenerative change of bones and joints. According to statistics, 45%-50% of people over 40 years old suffer from bone hyperplasia. After the age of 60, more than 80% of people will experience bone hyperplasia to varying degrees.

4. Periarthritis of shoulder

Periarthritis of the shoulder, also known as shoulder joint tissue inflammation, is a chronic inflammation of soft tissues such as muscles, tendons, bursae and joint capsules around the shoulder. It is more common in people around 50 years old. However, since office workers work at a desk for long periods of time, the muscles and ligaments in their shoulders are under tension, so this condition is not uncommon among people under 50 years old. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is caused by the shoulder being exposed to wind and cold. Because the chest and shoulder joints become stiff and their movements are restricted after the disease occurs, it seems to be frozen, so it is called "frozen shoulder" or "frozen shoulder syndrome".