Diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic arthritis

Post-Traumatic arthritis is a joint disease characterized by damage to cartilage, tendons and joint capsule. It occurs at any age and regardless of the kind of human activity. Post-traumatic arthritis of the ankle joint often affects the female sex. If the injury is serious, the mobility of the injured part of the body is disturbed. When you receive a microdamage process develops gradually. Timely therapy will not only eliminate post-traumatic arthritis of the knee joint, but also disease of other parts of the body.

Causes and symptoms of the disease

The Disease develops on the background of the received mechanical damages. Among them include:

• cracked cartilage joints
• damage to the meniscus;
• the defeat of the articular capsule;
• tendon rupture
• damage to the muscle tissue to ligaments.

More exposure of the ankles and knees. TOOOhey Suffer due to excessive physical exertion. The development of the disease occurs gradually some time after the injury. The resulting microcrack stop worrying about the man in a few days. After a couple of years it can cause serious lesions of a joint.

And There are secondary causes of arthritis. Impact the disease can excessive stress towards the joint capsule. This occurs as a result of a failure in the body. Affect arthritis can:

• hypothermia
• uncomfortable shoes
• heavy load during training;
• deposition of salts in the cartilage
• penetration infection into the body;
• hormonal disorders and disruption of metabolism;
• fasting or overeating;
• of nervous tension.

The Main symptoms of the disease:

• persistent pain;
• fixed a crunch in joints;
• aches
• swelling in the area of injury, particularly knee;
• limited mobility of the affected joint.

If the inflammation is not an increased body temperature, presence of fever and leukocytosis.

radiology

Traumatic arthritis involves the collection of a complete history. It includes patient's complaints, signs, and information about kind of activity.

Diagnosis is the study of physical signs, obtaining x-ray data and laboratory studies.

Affected with pronounced arthritis go on reception to the doctor-rheumatologist. This will prevent rheumatic nature of the disease. The main diagnostic measure is the radiography of the joints. This will allow you to get a full picture of what is happening and to see affected joints the images in two projections.

If you need to resort to instrumental diagnosis. The main techniques include tomography, arthrography, electroretinography and magnifying x-rays. X-ray evidence of arthritis varied. If the study reports marginal bone defects and the presence of cystic lesions. Infectious nature of the disease allows for the presence of a sequestrum.

Thermography allows to determine the localization changes of heat transfer. Ultrasound directed to the detection of effusion in the cavity of the affected joint and para-articular changes.

Radionuclide scintigraphy allows to determine the activity of inflammation. If necessary studies are complemented by a diagnostic arthroscopy. To determine the functional impact ankles are examined by methods of measuring the amplitude at movement and at rest. Seek, where appropriate, morphological evaluation of the biopsy of the synovium.

treatment Methods

The Treatment of posttraumatic arthritis is aimed at reducing pain and improving mobility of the affected joint.

This is Done by means of complex measures and by applying different approaches. After receiving damage to the joint should be in complete rest. Drug treatment should immediately and includes the use of anti-inflammatory and pain medication. The drugs supplemented electromagnetic therapy. As drugs are widely used, the effect of which is aimed at restoring damaged tissue. Used and chondroprotectors on the basis of animal cartilage.

The recovery is widely used of sanitary-resort treatment and balneotherapy. It is advisable to massage the affected joint, to do acupuncture and to enlist the help of manual therapy. For maximum unloading of the affected area is recommendeda restrictive diet.

If conservative treatment has not given positive dynamics, resorting to surgery. Patient offer arthroscopic surgery. It involves removing bone growths and diseased tissue using a special instrument called arthroscope. This method is characterized by high efficiency and minimum traumatization. Postoperative wounds are healed on the second day after surgery. Mobility is restored within 5 weeks. If treatment is started in time, the prognosis is favourable. Otherwise, you can onset of disability.