What are the treatment methods of osteoarthritis?

1. Non-drug therapy, mainly including physical therapy, motor support, balancing the load of each joint surface and self-behavior therapy, is mainly used to increase local blood circulation and reduce the reaction of osteoarthritis, including massage, hyperthermia and acupuncture. Action support mainly depends on crutches, crutches and walkers to reduce the load of the affected joints; The self-behavior therapy of patients mainly helps joint recovery through some moderate activities and aerobic exercise.

2. Drug therapy, mainly through the use of some glucosamine hydrochloride, chondroitin sulfate and other drugs to alleviate the patient's condition, but you should know that this method can only alleviate, and then relapse, and can not be completely cured.

3. Intra-articular injection therapy is to inject drugs into the joint by injection, so as to achieve the purpose of treatment. Generally, patients get better and faster results after treatment with this method.

4. Surgical treatment, this method is relatively rare, and most patients are ineffective after non-surgical treatment, or patients are accompanied by other complications. At this time, this method can be used for treatment.

Osteoarthritis mainly includes progressive articular cartilage disappearance, joint marginal hyperplasia and osteophyte formation. Slow joint pain, stiffness, swelling, deformation and limited movement. There are various treatments. First of all, we should control weight-bearing activities, walk less, go upstairs and downstairs less, and do squat less. We can exercise by cycling, walking and swimming. Quadriceps femoris exercise, physical therapy and medication. Periarticular sealing and intra-articular injection of sodium hyaluronate can also be performed. Arthroscopic surgery has the advantages of less trauma, less pain and quick recovery. At first, I was young, and the pain symptoms had obviously reached the patients with joint locking symptoms. For patients with advanced osteoarthritis, artificial joint replacement should be considered, which can completely cure the disease and its main purpose is to relieve pain, improve function and improve quality of life.