Most people aged 50 - 60 years of age suffer from osteoarthritis of varying severity. Most often affects the large joints of the lower extremities - knee and hip. Although the treatment of osteoarthritis by a doctor, very much depends on the patient. Once diagnosed with osteoarthritis: the treatment starts with weight normalization. Every extra kilogram significantly increases the load on the joints, affects their condition and closer still.

A diet with reduced fat, meat-eating and increasing vegetable and dairy products helps to normalize the function of the stomach and intestines and improve metabolism, which has a good effect on the nutrition of cartilage and reduces the speed of destruction.

Since the main feature of the disease would be a pain, it is natural that with such pathology as osteoarthritis of the hip treatment starts with the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. We must try to limit their reception a few months, as the side effects of the gastric mucosa can make life difficult for the patient. In addition, they have only a symptomatic effect, no effect on the basic mechanisms of disease and prevent its progression.

In some cases we have to use steroids, they quickly reduce inflammation. Preferably intra their introduction, and if patients with osteoarthritis of the knee treated in this way is more accessible than in pathology at other sites.Good effect as a course of injections of glucuronic acid, it improves grip and reduces friction, so the destruction and degeneration of cartilage slows. It is true, too frequent needle undesirable tissue injury, in addition, it may be the cause of introduction of infection into the joint cavity.

Directly on the mechanism of the disease may affect drugs from the group chondroprotective, but their effect will be visible mainly in the early stages of osteoarthritis. The main of them, chondroitin and glucosamine can stop the destructive processes and cause regeneration of cartilage, for that they need to drink a long time and repeat courses several times a year.

Noticeable relief can give chiropractic massage reduces muscle tension, and with traction articular ends of the bones forming the joint away from each other, it becomes less abrasion of cartilage, decreasing pain. If the patient deforming osteoarthritis knee treatment it should be very careful, it requires careful attention to a specialist, because in this junction involved just three bones and in no case should prevent proper anatomical and physiological relationship.

Not bad, if the patient receives physical therapy treatments such as laser therapy, electrophoresis, magnetic, variable currents. Good action curative radon, salt baths and mud baths (mineral wax, mud, peat). All they irritate skin receptors, provoke the development of new blood vessels, improves trophic tissues, cartilage. The total effect on the nervous and endocrine systems improves mood, performance, normalizes sleep.

Many people prefer to be treated themselves, with a diagnosis osteoarthritis: the treatment of the people's means replacing them all the prescription. Some of the techniques can really help, the same packs, heating and wraps, but their effect is not very significant. And the counsel for reinforced through the development of joint pain, "to disperse the salt" will, on the contrary, to the rapid progression of cartilage destruction and deterioration. So, all the recipes of traditional medicine should check with your physician.

If the disease is started, the movement in the joint severely limited or non-existent medical therapy can only reduce some of pain. In the final stages of this pathology as deforming osteoarthritis treatment restores motor function, can only be operational, replacing the destroyed joint with an artificial one.