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Checkup
Major diagnosis depends on analysis of patients' anamnesis (case studies) and examination results. X-ray study, even simple one, is very helpful for the rith diagnosis.
Treatment
Therapies vary, depending on patients' conditions and symptoms. Major treatments are as follows:
”“Medical treatment (Medication)
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Acetaminophen
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It is a kind of pain-killing medicine, which is helpful to relieve mild and moderate pains. It cannot reduce inflammation. |
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NSAIDs |
The medicine can relieve pain and reduce inflammation. But it may cause certain side effects on the stomach. |
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COX-2 Specific Inhibitors
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It is the latest medicine that helps not only reduce pain and inflammation but also has less side effects. |
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Local steroid injection of joints |
Injection may relieve swelling pain (sore pain) under severe joint swelling. Overuse of steroid injection would also lead to joint dysfunction or breakdown. |
”“Orthopedic surgery
Uncured arthritis would affect our daily lives heavily in the last phase after long-term breakup and malformation. To enhance your living quality, you should take surgery to cure this disease including artificial joint replacement, or osteotomy. Bone contouring surgery helps to reduce bone proliferation so as to increase activity spheres (areas) of joints and decrease pain. In some cases of joint malformation (dislocation), patients can choose appropriate orthopedic surgery like joint replacement for recovery.
In addition, doctors can also use medication prevent (control) joint inflammation, reduce pain and eliminate harm of bones. Physical therapy and appropriate exercises can also help to improve joint activity and flexibility (prevent from joint stiffening). Also, those can increase muscle strength and prevent from muscle atrophy. There are several suggested simple exercises below for health care:
Simple exercise for lower limb care
1. Hip-fasten Exercise: Lying down and then fastening your hips (bottoms) for 10 seconds.
2. Stretching and lifting legs: Lying down, and then stretching and lifting your thighs up.
3. Lifting-up of your legs on your side: Lying on one side of the body, and then lifting up your legs.
4. Isometric contraction exercise of quadriceps femoris: Lying down, then stretching your legs and then putting your popliteal fossa (posterior part of knee joints) close to the bed. Then loosening your muscle after counting from one to ten.
5. Semi-squat (half-squat) exercise: Standing straight, then half-squat with knees slightly bent and the stand up again.
”“Daily health care
At first, you should control your weight to lessen burden of your joints. Then, you can do some mild exercises like swimming and slow walk. What's more important is to keep heath of your joints regularly. If you find any joint dislocation, you should consult with doctors as soon as possible to reduce compressing pressure of peripheral tissue. You should avoid having low-temperature of your joints. You can do some treatment yourself like sinking your joints under the warm water of 45 Celsius degree. It can relieve pain and stiffness.
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