Osteoarthritis of the hip joint is also called coxarthrosis. This is a degenerative-dystrophic disease of the musculoskeletal system. Coxarthrosis begins with the articular cartilage, where the thinning process begins, the cartilage is fragmented, thus losing the main function of the joint: cushioning.
The process becomes more complicated when the blood supply to the femoral head is cut off, at which point aseptic necrosis develops, which in turn is accompanied by osteoarthritis. After that, the patient must apply medicines, perform certain exercises or perform a treatment, which includes a whole complex.
Causes of the disease
Of course, the reasons behind the disease can be completely different. If the disease is associated with the constant immobility of a person, then the treatment will not be difficult, just change your lifestyle and do not forget that after that there is a prevention of the disease. Thus, it will be possible to get rid of the main symptoms, which lead to the fact that the pain periodically returns and eventually does not subside at all. Bones and joints, although strong and able to withstand considerable weight, however, with constant physical exertion on the body, they can fail. Be careful to get rid of unnecessary stress, which can lead to the first signs of the disease. Injuries won't lead to anything good, it doesn't matter here whether the injuries were accidental or not. Due to injuries received in youth, this disease most often develops in athletes, the treatment of which is not always carried out immediately. Here the diagnosis will be unambiguous, the load on the body will have to be limited, in this case it will not be possible to treat the disease in a different way.
Strange as it may seem, heredity can influence the development of coxarthrosis. Some people have a congenital hip dislocation, which eventually turns into osteoarthritis of the hip joint.
There are two forms of the disease: the primary form and the secondary form. In the first case, the disease develops on its own, as well as pains are felt, while the secondary form is a consequence of other diseases. They can become:
- Perthes disease;
- Congenital dislocation of the hip;
- hip dysplasia;
- He received joint injuries;
- Aseptic necrosis of the femoral head;
- Inflammation.
- Most often, the primary form of the disease appears after 50 years, that is, when the joints of the body wear out, and after that pain is felt.
Symptoms
It is possible to determine osteoarthritis in the hip joint by what symptoms appear. Basically, it will be the pain that occurs while walking. This disease is chronic, so the symptoms appear once and cannot go away. The pains gradually increase, at first they are barely noticeable, but over time, if you do not pay attention to this, the symptoms worsen and become more noticeable.
Most often, symptoms appear when the body has not moved for a long time, that is, pain can occur after sleep, after a person has been sitting in one position for a long time. Such an unpleasant sensation is called initial pain. After a person develops small joints, the pain subsides for a while.
The localization areas of pain can be different. The main part occurs in the groin region, the buttock region, along the anterior surface of the thigh, followed by the passage to the knee, sometimes along the outer region of the left or right thigh.
Such symptoms without prompt treatment do not end in any good. The patient during walking, when he feels the greatest pain, tries to avoid it or at least to make the symptoms less evident, for this reason the gait is disturbed and, consequently, other disturbances in the body.
Treatment
Although the treatment, although prevention can be carried out in several ways. It is best to choose the option that your doctor will recommend. You can be cured with drugs (injections or pills), with the help of gymnastics, and traditional medicine can also help you. And although the latter has not been confirmed, some patients report improvement after some procedures, even if only prophylaxis has been performed.
Treatment may include injections or tablets. The doctor examines many factors, such as pain, the degree of disease development, and which drugs the patient's body will accept best.
Chondroprotectors
There are many coprotectors - drugs that nourish the cartilage tissue, so the destruction process is stopped, and then the cartilage tissue is restored. Doctors often prescribe injections into the hip joint, believing it is easier to treat in this way. A big plus is that the injections are very effective and can treat some comorbidities. But you need to remember that injections can be done no more than three per joint. It is also a positive moment, but a warning, injections should not be done often, the interruption between each procedure is at least two weeks.
How do they work
First, these drugs are designed to restore cartilage tissue, which is so necessary for osteoarthritis. Therefore, these drugs aim to stop the degeneration process of the cartilage tissue. It cannot be said that chondroprotectors will only have a positive effect if you use them in case of osteoarthritis of the hip joint, for nothing. Co-protectors will be an excellent treatment for diseases of all types of joints.
Chondroprotectors incorporate products of both animal and vegetable origin (depending on the specific preparation), as well as other components that increase the production of collagen, hyaluronic acid, stimulate the production of chondroitin by the cartilage tissue. All these components lead to the fact that the natural processes occurring in the cartilage tissue are supported, its main functions are restored, and as a result, the pain in the joints disappears.
What is suitable for arthritis
When you come to a pharmacy in search of chondroprotectors, you will be surprised at how many different names of the right drug exist today, which, in fact, do not differ much in their components. So which chondroprotectors will be the best choice for osteoarthritis?
Without a doubt, the best consultant in this matter will be your attending physician, who sees the picture of the disease from the outside and will be able to advise you (sometimes to choose from) several drugs that are most suitable for your individual case. Do not take medications without consulting your doctor on this point.
Pay attention to the fact that clinical trials are very important in this area, and these are mainly expensive and popular chondroprotectors. Their effectiveness has already been confirmed and the possibility of allergic reactions has been minimized. Remember that the natural substances that make up chondroprotectors rarely cause an allergic reaction, most often the culprit is the additives that make up the medicine.
Contraindications
There is a group of people to whom chondroprotectors are contraindicated:
- It is forbidden to take drugs in pregnant and lactating women;
- It should not be used by children under the age of 12;
- If a person has diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, it is worthwhile to exclude drugs in the form of tablets and resort to other methods of treatment;
- In certain stages the chondroprotectors will no longer have any effect, therefore, in advanced cases, they resort to other methods of treatment;
- Some drugs are individually intolerable and should be replaced by others.
Recommendations for use
It is impossible to say that only chondroprotectors will help cure the disease. It pays to focus on the problems that caused you the disease and not the medications. Because if, due to excessive physical stress, you have received such injuries and hope you can lead the same lifestyle and chondroprotectors will save you, then you are deeply mistaken. The possibility of spread and aggravation of the disease must be eliminated on all sides. Try to protect yourself from hypothermia as much as possible. Keep track of what medications you are taking, if you have been prescribed medications to treat another disease, ask your doctor if you need to change the course of treatment?
Treatment of arthrosis of the hip joint with gymnastics
Doctors recommend treating osteoarthritis of the hip joint with the help of special exercises. It is better not to lead to treatment and not to forget that there should be prevention of the disease. The very process of treating such diseases has never been fast, treatment with gymnastics is no exception in this case. Some believe that because these are not drugs that need to be taken constantly, lessons can be skipped. Forget it, this is your health, so exercising is a must.
The Doctor's Technique
It is worth noting that in the field of therapeutic gymnastics, the physician complex has proven itself well. The peculiarity of the doctor is that, unlike his colleagues, he did not turn to surgery and medical treatment of osteoarthritis, such as injections. His exercises serve to help the body recover on its own. The doctor's primary method of treating osteoarthritis is kinesitherapy, which means treatment by movement. According to his methodology, a separate program is developed for each patient, that is, a series of exercises, in which he is prescribed which simulators to use, what exercises to do and how. On the recommendation of the doctor, it is necessary to correctly perform the exercises, the complex that he developed. Even if a person knows what the exercises are, but performs them incorrectly, there will be no result. Correct execution of this or that exercise is important, or rather, it is important to repeat the whole complex.
This technique confirms that it is not drugs that cure us, we do it ourselves.
Rules of execution
Sometimes the injections do not give the desired effect, the treatment is exercised. Recommendations for implementation. If you notice the first symptoms and decide that it is better to get physically treated, you should remember some rules:
- Exercises are not performed abruptly, everything should be regular and measured;
- The joint must be developed, and not further loaded, to aggravate the symptoms of the disease;
- Do not forget that the exercises help if they are followed by a little massage;
- This treatment (exercises) is best done lying down.
For the effectiveness of physiotherapy exercises, a whole complex is performed, which includes a variety of exercises.
You should monitor your health, play sports and, at the first symptoms of the disease, consult a doctor. After all, if the disease is detected in the early stages, it will be much easier to cure it or stop its development.