Osteoarthritis is cause by the wear and tear of cartilage, which is a result of aging, heavy use, and injuries or continuous impact on the joints over a long period of time.
There are also other contributing factors, such as osteoporosis in postmenopausal women, genetics, or injections into the joints, as well as arthritis from other causes, such as gout and rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis is not a serious condition, but it affects daily life, causing patients to suffer from joint pain and difficulty walking, not wanting to go out, and eventually becoming depressed.
Knee joint is where the head of the femur and the socket of the tibia meet. There is a meniscus that contains the knee joint fluid to lubricate and cushion the joint. There are many tendons and muscles around the knee joint. The knee joint has a special characteristic that it can only move in one direction, which is to bend and straighten the knee เล่นบาคาร่า UFABET เว็บตรง ค่าคอมสูง. It is not like other joints that have to rotate the body, such as the shoulder and hip joints.
We can observe the symptoms of osteoarthritis as follows:
- Which is worse with use and relieves after resting.
- Knee swelling due to inflammation of the synovial membrane or more fluid than normal accumulation in the knee joint.
- The bones are bent to the point where you can feel the bone protruding from the joint or feel that the bone has become larger.
- When standing up, sitting down or walking, there soft sound in the knee joint. Sometimes it feels like the bones are rubbing together.
- Difficulty in stretching or bending the knee
- Knee deformity leading to bowed knees in cases of severe knee degeneration
- The muscles around the knee joint become atrophied and weak.
Although moderate walking, running, and other exercises are beneficial in strengthening the muscles around the knees, which helps reduce the burden on the knee joints, some exercises require the knees to bear a lot of weight or involve too much extension and contraction of the kneecap, such as squatting, running up and down stairs in a tall building, riding a bicycle with high resistance, or riding a bicycle with a low seat that requires a lot of knee bend, we should avoid this type of exercise too much or too often.