Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease. Is a chronic disease. There is no well-established way to cure it. The goals are to prevent osteoarthritis to improve circulation and joint strength, control pain, enjoy a healthy lifestyle and maintain an acceptable weight. Some factors that increase the risk of osteoarthritis are:
-Age: more than 50 people are at increased risk of osteoarthritis.
-Gender: Osteoarthritis occurs more often in women. Before 45 reaches men because of injuries. After 45 to 70 women predominate. After 70 both sexes are equally at risk.
-Obesity: Being overweight at middle age and later.
-Bad Diet: fatty foods, alcohol and high cholesterol.
-Joint misalignment: If joints move or fall incorrectly as bow legs or a dislocated hip.
-Genes: a defect in a gene responsible for the formation of collagen results in cartilage that is weakest and degrades faster.
-Lifestyle: Sports injuries to his knees and hips, walking barefoot on marble floors, poorly fitting shoes etc.
-Weak muscles: they put a lot of pressure on common leading to tears in the tendon.
Osteoarthritis (OA) can affect any joint in the body, some joints are more vulnerable than others. More specific areas are:
-fingers where bone spurs in the middle of digits fingers produce characteristic swelling.
-joints of the knees and hips are more likely to produce severe pain and disability.
-neck and back pain can be very low.
-feet where he often stresses the linkage in the great toe.
Osteoarthritis can be capricious. Sometimes pain is experienced before the condition evolved enough to produce x-ray abnormalities. But the reverse is also possible. some individuals feel little or no discomfort even if his x-rays show advanced osteoarthritis. Pain usually starts gradually. It can be mild or severe. Although the pain is usually focused on the articulation of the involved, it can also be referred to the nearby areas. In the case of osteoarthritis, stiffness is common, but are usually solved in twenty minutes. Stiffness after rest is brief but patients with advanced osteoarthritis can be hard and creaky during most of the day. People having painful joints tend to be inactive and inactivity leads to muscle weakness another symptom.
It is a vicious circle, but appropriate forms of exercise can break the chain of disability.
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