Cherish the body, stay away from arthritis, and spend the world Arthritis Day together

October 12 is the world's arthritis day, arthritis is known as the world's number one disabling disease, refers to the human joints and the surrounding tissue of inflammatory disease, the world's arthritis patients around 400 million, our country is more than 100 million. Arthritis can be divided into dozens of kinds, of which the highest incidence of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Zhengzhou People's Hospital rheumatism immune Division director Shipu, Osteoarthritis is a articular cartilage degeneration and secondary bone hyperplasia characteristics of chronic joint disease, more in the elderly, more women than men. Osteoarthritis patients often accompanied by slow development of joint pain, tenderness, stiffness, joint swelling, limited activity and joint deformities and other symptoms, increased age, obesity, strain, trauma and other factors can cause osteoarthritis. According to statistics, half of people over 50 years of age have osteoarthritis, 90% of women over 65 years of age and 80% of men suffer from osteoarthritis, and with the aging of the population and the rise in obesity, there are more than 50 million people with osteoarthritis in China.

Rheumatoid arthritis has concealed, difficult to diagnose, easy recurrence, long course of disease characteristics, its early illness often get attention, many people will rheumatoid arthritis and common joint pain confusion, patients only feel 1-2 joint pain and stiffness, the morning get up feeling most obvious, commonly known as morning stiff. Many early patients often believe that this is due to the body's natural aging, bone degeneration caused by the thought of eating anti-inflammatory painkillers or calcium supplements can be alleviated. This misunderstanding has delayed the best treatment time for many early patients. Shipu remind, joint once appear ache, swelling, stiff symptom, should go to the normal hospital rheumatism immunity Department as soon as possible, lest delay the best treatment time.

In daily life, to prevent arthritis, the first thing to do is to "use joints," that is to avoid engaging in excessive physical activity or long time frequent up and down buildings, running, mountain climbing, etc. to the knee joint wear a larger movement; Secondly, should try to live in Chaoyang, ventilation, dry living environment, cold days to the joints warm; If you want to eat properly and control your weight properly, overweight bodies can also bring burdens to your joints.

Shipu pointed out that the arthritis patients in addition to cooperate with the doctor's follow-up review, timely medication, the appropriate burden relief exercise is also conducive to the recovery of diseases, such as walking, swimming, cycling, dancing, and so on, different patients should focus on different exercises, such as knee arthritis patients can choose to swim, but also to The patients with cervical spine and lumbar osteoarthritis can perform gentle and lumbar movement; the cervical facet osteoarthritis is not suitable for swimming. Physical exercise should follow the characteristics of low intensity, rhythmic, uninterrupted. Exercise should last 20 minutes, 4 times a week, the patient can start from small amount of exercise, step-by-step. If there is continuous pain after exercise, you should reduce the intensity of exercise and shorten the time of exercise. (correspondent He Wan Sakura feeds)