Can osteoarthritis be cured? The orthopedic doctor told the truth this time
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint inflammation, and various factors such as age, trauma, strain, and obesity may be the cause of the disease. After the disease, patients will show joint pain, swelling, stiffness, etc. to varying degrees, which still has a certain impact on daily life. In order to ensure a smooth life, patients all want to eradicate the disease, but is osteoarthritis cured? Is complete recovery possible?
Can osteoarthritis be cured?
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease that is progressive and irreversible, so a complete cure for osteoarthritis generally does not exist. For the treatment of osteoarthritis, the main focus is to control the development of the disease, so as to control and delay the aging of the bones and joints.
How is osteoarthritis treated?
- Weight Control
The knee joint is a common site of osteoarthritis, because knee arthritis, as the main weight-bearing part of the body, needs to bear most of the stress on the body. If you are overweight, it means that the joints need to bear a greater load. Over time, the wear and tear of the joints will increase, and the degenerative diseases will accelerate, making it easy to suffer from osteoarthritis.
Therefore, weight control is also a major focus in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Overweight patients should maintain their weight within normal indicators through scientific diet and reasonable exercise in a timely manner to avoid the aggravation and deterioration of joint inflammation.
- Drug treatment
For the drug treatment of osteoarthritis, anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs are mainly used, such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, but the long-term use of analgesic drugs will cause a certain burden on the body, causing gastrointestinal discomfort and other some side effects. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of osteoarthritis is often combined with external application and oral administration, and external application of ointment and oral administration of prescriptions have a certain effect on relieving the disease.
- Surgical treatment
Surgical treatment is generally suitable for patients with severe joint wear and loss of joint function. At present, the method of surgical treatment of osteoarthritis mostly chooses artificial joint replacement. As the name implies, it is to replace the damaged joints of the body with artificial joints, and use the artificial joints to exert various functional activities of the human joints, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment.
The treatment can restore the patient's joint function in a relatively short period of time, and now that the medical technology is mature, the surgical risk is relatively low. Therefore, if the bone and joint are severely damaged, it is recommended to consider joint replacement.
Although osteoarthritis is an irreversible disease, it is a controllable disease. As long as the patient actively cooperates with the treatment and maintains a good attitude, the deterioration of the disease can be further controlled.