Arthritis is one of the most common chronic diseases and the number one disabling disease in the world. It affects 50% of people over the age of 50 and 90% of people over the age of 65. In severe cases, it can cause difficulty in walking, affect normal life and even cause disability.

Don’t think it’s just for old people. More and more young people are suffering from it. Arthritis affects 355 million people worldwide and 1 in 6 people in Asia! As of 2015, there were more than 100 million patients in mainland China, and the number is still increasing. So why is arthritis on the rise? How to treat arthritis?

Why are more and more people getting arthritis?

1. Knee degeneration with age

In young men, there are reasonable gaps between the kneecaps, and there is synovial fluid, which acts as lubrication. But with the increase of age and some other factors, joint synovial fluid degeneration, knee cartilage and tissue wear degree is gradually aggravated, knee degeneration is almost inevitable. In other words, people of a certain age can get arthritis of the knee, either mildly or severely.

2. Obesity aggravates knee degeneration

In addition to age, obesity is also a key factor in the development of osteoarthritis. He believes that weight gain increases the load on the knee cartilage, accelerating wear and tear. But now people’s life is irregular, the diet is too greasy, weight only gain, accelerate knee degeneration.

3. Incorrect way of exercise

It is generally accepted that exercise is helpful in the prevention and treatment of most diseases. However, many forms of exercise are not very protective against arthritis. Mountaineering and long-distance running are the last things knee patients should do. Due to the non-standard running posture, improper shoes and other reasons, it is easy to cause injury to the knee joint. And when climbing the knee force is 2-3 times of ordinary sports, more not suitable for knee patients.

How to treat arthritis?

1. Drug therapy

First of all, if the patient’s knee arthritis is in stage 1, the main symptom is slight swelling and pain of the knee joint, but the X-ray is normal with the help of medical instruments, then this situation is mainly treated by reducing activity, physical diagnosis and treatment, and drug means. Drugs, also mainly with some anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs, the effect is better.

2. Arthroscopic cleaning

Secondly, if the patient’s knee joint has active swelling and pain, and the range of motion has been significantly reduced, and the joint space has begun to narrow with the help of medical instruments, early degeneration of the joint, and articular cartilage fibrosis, then the patient has stage 2 knee arthritis.

The condition can also be treated without surgery, but if inflammation is frequent, an arthroscope can be used to clean it up. In addition, if patients have patellar subluxation, patellar tilt, varus deformity and other conditions, doctors will also recommend surgery to correct, because this can delay the degeneration of articular cartilage.

3. Surgical treatment

If patients with knee joint often twisted the lock and the bow-legged, or appear larger crack, peeling, articular cartilage of knee has been deformed, so at this time of patients with knee osteoarthritis have developed to phase 3, 4, at that time we can adopt the way of cleaning under arthroscopy to treat, even for artificial knee joint replacement surgery.