What symptom is osteoarthritis? What are the symptoms of osteoarthritis?

Osteoarthritis is a common joint disease, which will cause many adverse effects on life and various uncomfortable symptoms. So what are the symptoms of osteoarthritis? What are the symptoms of osteoarthritis? The symptoms of osteoarthritis are still obvious. Let's learn more about the specific symptoms of osteoarthritis and its related contents.

1, hand symptoms

If femoral osteoarthritis occurs in interphalangeal joints, the interphalangeal joints are involved for the longest time, especially the distal interphalangeal joints. Its characteristic change refers to the hyperosteogeny and induration of the dorsal, medial and lateral joints. The formation of this nodule is very slow, and only a few patients will eventually have flexion and exotropia of the distal joint. If the first carpometacarpal joint is involved and there is hyperosteogeny, it will form a square hand, but this deformity is rare in China.

2, knee symptoms

Knee joint pain is one of the common symptoms of patients with femoral osteoarthritis. Its early symptoms are mainly pain when going up and down stairs, especially when going downstairs, which usually appears unilaterally or bilaterally alternately.

In addition, there will be delusions of joint enlargement, which are mostly caused by bone hypertrophy and joint cavity effusion. A few patients will also have the phenomenon of fire hypertrophy, and in severe cases, genu varus deformity will occur.

3. Hip joint symptoms

Patients with hip inflammation and hunger mainly show pain in greater trochanter, lateral hip and groin, which can radiate to knee joint, and the internal rotation and extension of hip joint are limited.

4. Symptoms of foot arthritis

If osteoarthritis occurs in the foot, the first toe joint is the most common lesion, which is often caused by wearing too tight shoes and repeated trauma. Symptoms are local pain, bone hypertrophy and thumb valgus.

5, spinal joint symptoms

Degenerative lesions of vertebral body, intervertebral disc and osteophyte joint will cause vertebral body lesions in Beijing-Zhuhai and lumbar region, resulting in local pain and stiffness. A few severe cases will have various radiation pains or nervous system symptoms due to lip hyperplasia at the edge of vertebral body and epiphysis compressing local nerve roots, spinal cord or local blood vessels.

6. Prevention methods of osteoarthritis

First, lose weight

In recent years, patients with knee osteoarthritis caused by weight account for a large proportion in the patient population. In addition to genetic and drug factors, the most important inducement is the eating habits of today's urban people, such as overeating, eating too well, heavy taste, unrestrained diet, casual exercise, leading to excessive joint pressure, heavy burden and illness. When people who like sports run and jump, the instantaneous strength of knee joint can reach 5 ~ 6 times of human body weight. If the weight is too large, the joint endurance will increase by n times. If the pain of knee joint is still not relieved after 4 weeks of rest after exercise, it should be considered as intra-articular injuries such as cartilage contusion, ligament injury and meniscus injury. It should not be considered as extraarticular muscle and soft tissue injury.

Second, try not to wear high heels.

Stiletto heels, which are deeply loved by women, are designed into stiletto heels in order to make their posture more graceful. High-heeled shoes make the metatarsal bones of toes suffer more pressure and extrusion, and at the same time increase the pressure on ankles and knees. In order to highlight the lines when women walk, their waist and abdomen must be balanced, which will easily lead to ligament relaxation and cartilage wear of the knee joint after a long time. It is recommended that women who love beauty wear short shoes with wide heels every day. In addition to wearing high-heeled shoes and leather shoes, you should also wear soft-soled shoes in your life to absorb vibration and balance the load on your knees.

Third, avoid living in a cold and humid environment for a long time.

It is cold on cloudy days, the temperature drops and the air humidity increases, which will make the knee joint uncomfortable and feel sore and weak. These are the characteristics of knee arthritis. Therefore, increasing clothes and quilts according to seasonal changes, reducing outdoor activities, avoiding direct air-conditioning blowing and keeping the temperature too low are very helpful to prevent knee arthritis. Abnormal seasonal climate and bad living environment are the external causes of knee osteoarthritis. Especially in summer, it is particularly important to keep the temperature and humidity of residential office space, because the long-term low temperature of air conditioning is the main external cause of disease.

Fourth, reduce frequent climbing and long walking.

Many people like to climb mountains, stairs and come to exercise quickly, but if it is excessive, it will also bring negative effects, which will accelerate the cartilage wear of the knee joint and cause early arthritis. Mountain climbing, mountain climbing and other sports are not suitable for everyone. Many patients have osteoarthritis surgery after climbing mountains. Before choosing the habitual fitness exercise mode, it is best to go to a professional hospital to evaluate the skeletal movement system to avoid sports injury. Walking exercise is simple and effective. It is suggested that you should not exceed 100 steps per minute and exercise for no more than 1 hour to protect your joints.

5. take vitamins a, c, e and supplement d.

The rate of knee arthritis in women is much higher than that in men, especially after menopause, because the estrogen in the body drops greatly, and the cartilage becomes thinner, brittle and not wear-resistant. At this time, a large number of calcium supplements began to protect the knees, which can be said to be "better late than never." Therefore, for women, health maintenance should be started sooner or later, and nursed back to health before the age of 40: in addition to controlling weight, not being greedy for cold, reducing mountain climbing, choosing appropriate exercise, sunbathing more, drinking more milk, taking vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and supplementing vitamin D, it has a good preventive effect on osteoarthritis. Especially in the sun, you can get vitamin D, which is also the main way for the human body to get vitamin D. Vitamin D can help the human body absorb calcium and phosphorus and prevent osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis.