What are the consequences of osteonecrosis?

Femoral head necrosis is a common disease in our current life. This disease has a great impact on the patient's physical and mental health and daily life. It may cause inconvenience in movement or even inability to move. In today's society, more and more people are suffering from this disease. However, although they are sick, they themselves do not know much about this disease. So what are the hazards of femoral head necrosis?

1. Harm to the hip joint

The femoral head is an important component of the hip joint, and the hip joint is the main load-bearing organ of the human body and the hub connecting the human trunk and lower limbs. Support the torso and lower limbs. It has special significance for walking, sitting and lying functions. Compared with disabilities of other joints, hip joint disability has the greatest impact on the human body. The hip is the hub connecting the human torso and lower limbs. It supports the torso above and connects the lower limbs below, and is of special significance for walking, sitting and lying down. If femoral head necrosis is not treated in time, as the disease worsens, it will lead to hip joint disability. Hip joint disability has the greatest impact on the human body compared to disability of other joints. Along with limited hip function, muscle atrophy and swelling of the affected limb will also occur.

2. Harm to bone cells

Femoral head necrosis is a lesion that occurs deep in the bone joint and is not easy to detect in the early stages. During the course of the disease, bone cells have often become necrotic, trabeculae have become deformed and atrophied, or there may be worm-like changes and pitting sclerosis, but the patient still has no symptoms.

Due to its anatomical location deep in the muscle layer, this is one of the factors that makes femoral head necrosis difficult to detect in the early stages. The harm of femoral head necrosis is often that bone cells have already died, trabeculae have become disordered, deformed and atrophied, or there have been worm-like changes and pitting sclerosis, but the patient has no symptoms. As the disease progresses to the late stage, patients can clearly feel pain in the affected limb and limited mobility. At the same time, while suffering from physical pain, patients also have to suffer from psychological trauma, adding a heavy burden to their families, units and society.

The treatment of patients with femoral head necrosis is very troublesome. Not only is it troublesome, it also takes a very long time and requires a long period of rest. Therefore, it will be troublesome for their relatives and friends, which may lead to the patient's relationship with the people around him not being particularly good. These may cause other changes in the patient's psychology, so it is not good for his own recovery.