Can osteoarthritis be cured?

Osteoarthritis can be treated with medication. Medication mainly uses some external plasters to relieve pain. You can also choose massage therapy, such as pinching the spine, finger kneading, etc., which can relieve local pain.

1. Drug treatment

There are two types of medications that can be used to condition the body: oral or topical.

Because arthritis is a chronic disease, long-term use of Western medicine is bound to have serious side effects, so it is often treated with traditional Chinese medicine. The most common method is the external application of traditional Chinese medicine's arthritis Qufengkang plaster therapy.

2. Minimally invasive treatment

Minimally invasive technology, ozone nucleus pulposus ablation, injects ozone gas into the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc through fine needle puncture, which can gradually dehydrate and atrophy the nucleus pulposus tissue cells, reduce the pressure on the nerve roots and achieve the purpose of treatment.

3. Massage therapy

Treat arthritis through manual massage.

Common techniques

Finger kneading, spinal pinching, holding, twisting, smearing, shaking, rubbing and joint exercise methods.

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4. Surgical treatment

Artificial knee replacement surgery is a procedure that replaces the completely degenerated, worn and deformed knee joint with other materials. The surface of the worn and damaged joint is cut away by about 10 mm to restore the normal joint force line. The artificial joint is then fixed to the cut bone surface by bone cement inlay. This approach may be considered for patients with severe deformities.

5. Notes

1. Exercise more

Improve physical fitness. Regular physical exercise, such as health gymnastics, qigong, tai chi, radio gymnastics, walking, etc., is very beneficial.

People who insist on physical exercise will have a strong body, strong disease resistance, and rarely get sick. Their ability to resist the invasion of wind, cold and dampness is much stronger than that of those who do not exercise.

2. Avoid invasion of wind, cold and dampness

To prevent cold, rain and moisture, pay attention to keeping the joints warm, do not wear wet clothes, wet shoes, wet socks, etc. In the hot summer, don't seek coolness or drink too much cold drinks.