Symptoms of osteoarthritis

With the general improvement in the quality of human life, what has increased is not only the colorful eating, drinking, and entertainment in people's lives, but also many new names of diseases. This is very unfavorable for people because the threat they bring to people's physical health is also huge. Therefore, today's medical community is constantly increasing the number of teams to fight these diseases in the long term, hoping that one day all diseases will be defeated.

Osteoarthritis is one of the most common diseases faced today. In this society, there are people suffering from this disease, regardless of gender, age or status. Moreover, osteoarthritis has a great adverse impact on people's activities in life. Therefore, people must understand it before they can prescribe the right medicine. So what are its specific symptoms?

Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease caused by many factors such as aging, obesity, strain, trauma, congenital joint abnormalities, joint deformities, etc., which leads to degeneration of articular cartilage, reactive hyperplasia of joint margins and subchondral bone. It is also called osteoarthritis, degenerative arthritis, senile arthritis, hypertrophic arthritis, etc. The clinical manifestations include slowly developing joint pain, tenderness, stiffness, joint swelling, limited movement and joint deformity.

Depending on the presence or absence of local and systemic pathogenic factors, osteoarthritis is divided into two categories: primary and secondary.

1. Secondary osteoarthritis

(1) Mechanical or anatomical abnormalities: abnormal development of the hip joint, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, femoral neck abnormalities, multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, old fractures, meniscectomy, joint replacement, acute or chronic injuries.

(2) Inflammatory joint diseases: suppurative arthritis, osteomyelitis, tuberculous arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, seronegative spondyloarthropathy, Behcet's syndrome, and Paget's disease.

(3) Metabolic abnormalities: gout, Gaucher's disease, diabetes, progressive hepatolenticular degeneration, chondrocalcinosis, and hydroxyapatite crystals.

(4) Endocrine abnormalities: acromegaly, sex hormone abnormalities, hyperparathyroidism, hypothyroidism with myxedema, and adrenal cortex hyperfunction.

(5) Neurological defects: peripheral neuritis, syringomyelia, and Charcot arthropathy.

2. Primary osteoarthritis

The cause of primary osteoarthritis is still unclear, but it may be related to factors such as advanced age, female gender, obesity, and occupational overuse.

The main symptom is joint pain, which often occurs in the morning. The pain is relieved after activity, but the pain may worsen if there is too much activity. Another symptom is joint stiffness, which often occurs when you wake up in the morning or after the joints have been in a certain position for a long time during the day. Examination of the affected joints may reveal joint swelling and tenderness, and a friction or "clicking" sound during movement. In severe cases, muscle atrophy and joint deformities may occur.

Diseases such as arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are common in people's lives. This has led to the emergence of a variety of treatment methods, which makes people dizzy. Based on its harm to people's bodies, only when people know more about it can they find a treatment method that is truly suitable for them and get rid of its harm to the human body as soon as possible.