Arthritis
Coxarthrosis: What can The Patient Do?
What can the patient do?
- Regular screenings by your doctor to see the evolution and adjust medication.
- Apply local heat (hot shower, electric blanket).
- Obese people should lose weight, since a kilo is a download lost 4 kilos for the hip.
- Avoid heavy exercise: jumping, running, weightlifting. So the young patient should mentalize a limitation in their sport. This will delay replacement. In addition, a hip replacement involves removing all efforts overload the implant.
- Swimming and cycling, because the movement of the hip is harmonic. It is highly recommended walks, but on flat ground without any dents or slopes. Read the rest of this entry »
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Treatment of Coxarthrosis
First Phase:
Treatment in the early stages is based on proper medication and good therapy.
Drugs:
- Analgesics pure (target only pain) such as paracetamol. Are the initial treatment for their little side effects.
- Anti-inflammatory painkillers such as ibuprofen or diclofenac or rofecoxib. Useful in sharpening boxes, but should be administered with caution in the elderly and to kidney and liver disorders not severe. If severe or the patient has peptic ulcer should not take them.
You should not take cortisone or similar drugs. In addition, drugs that try to stop osteoarthritis, such as glucosamine sulfate, are slow acting (effect takes weeks or months to manifest), but very tolerant and allow lower doses of other drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
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How Coxarthrosis Progresses?
How hip osteoarthritis progresses?
It is usually a slow disease course and is most often interrupted by painful crises that correspond to localized losses of cartilage. After the crisis, the residual mechanical pain is somewhat higher than previously and smaller mobility.
In other cases there is no crisis, but the pain and loss of mobility are progressive, and reduce the distance you can walk without pain.
The secondary osteoarthritis cartilage irregularities (fractures, infections, etc..) Evolve more rapidly from the beginning because there is increased friction articular cartilage that wears out. Read the rest of this entry »
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Diagnosis of Coxarthrosis
How is it diagnosed?
It is diagnosed by medical examination performed by both pain and mobility, coupled with the appearance of the joint on radiographs.
The appearance of the films may not correspond to the suffering of the patient, a patient may have trouble almost radiographic very upset and vice versa.
X-rays can uncover the causes of osteoarthritis. Dysplasia, Perthes, slipped epiphyses and when they are very advanced osteonecrosis show radiographic features, apart from secondary osteoarthritis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Symptoms of Coxarthrosis
Pain
It is the basic symptom that brings patients to medical appointments. The pain is mechanical, and increases when it begins to move or walk. If you keep moving the joint pain to give in after a time to rise again. With rest, it yields.
The patient feels pain in the crease of the groin, the buttocks, and sometimes only on the inside face of the knee.
When you notice creaking evolves to move the joint.
Progressive limitation of joint mobility
It is another fundamental alteration of osteoarthritis. The movements are more limited outward rotation and then the separation and the extension of the limb. Over time appears contracture or stiffness: the thigh is flexed and rotated inward, and we can not separate it from the body. So that the gestures of everyday life such as tying a shoe, into the tub or get on a bus, they become very difficult or impossible. Read the rest of this entry »
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What causes Coxarthrosis?
What causes osteoarthritis of the hip?
About half of the cases is primary, ie, no cause is found. However, there are some risk factors:
- Age
- Obesity
- Generalized Osteoarthritis
- Contact sports such as football, basketball. His practice for years can, in some cases, taking it to overload the joint osteoarthritis.
- The same is true of workers who use physical force: construction workers, longshoremen, etc..
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What is Coxarthrosis?
What is Coxarthrosis (osteoarthritis of the hip)?
The hip joint is the socket that are at the head of the femur bone, semi-spherical shape, with the acetabulum of the pelvis, which is a cavity of the hipbone hemisphere as well.
The contact zone between the two bones of this kind of “hinge” is covered by a layer called cartilage, which can distribute loads and reduce friction between bones with joint movements. Read the rest of this entry »
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