Many people look forward to meeting their families this year as well for the Lunar New Year holidays. However, it is not comfortable to face the elderly appearance of parents whom I have met. In particular, if your parents are uncomfortable, your worries will inevitably increase.
‘Degenerative arthritis’, one of the degenerative diseases caused by aging, can be said to be a chronic disease that afflicts the daily life of the parents’ generation. Degenerative arthritis, represented by knee pain, not only lowers the quality of life, but also accompanies extreme pain at the end, so it is important to support appropriate responses.
If you are concerned about the health of your parents’ knees that you will meet during the Lunar New Year this year, it is advisable to check the condition of your joints through a simple method. This holiday, if you know only 4 things, you can get a rough look at your parents’ joint health. It is a so-called’degenerative arthritis self-diagnosis’.
First step. You need to see if your parents are limping when they walk straight. This is because if knee arthritis is severe, you may be limp with pain. Usually, when knee arthritis is severe, the pain increases when the knee is bent a lot. Because of this, your gait may look somewhat uncomfortable and may appear limp when viewed by someone else.
Next, it’s time to go up the stairs. If your parents are struggling with knee pain while climbing stairs, you should suspect knee arthritis. If you are taking a break between climbing stairs, you need to clearly check whether you are breathing out of breath or taking a break from knee pain.
Also, if knee arthritis is severe, the knee may make a noise. Even if it’s not a special situation, if the knee often makes a’pump’ sound during everyday life, it is likely that it is knee arthritis. If you can’t get up on your own and grab something or lean on it to get up, it could also be knee arthritis.
It is also necessary to observe whether or not it is a flipped leg, commonly referred to as an’O leg’. The O leg is characterized by a wide gap between the knees when viewed from the front and is curved in an O shape. Particularly, if you walk around with O legs, it is possible that you are already in the middle of arthritis.
If it is difficult to carefully monitor your parents’ joint health, it is a good idea to check them by asking a few questions yourself. The typical symptoms are ▲I feel stiff when I bend or move my joints ▲Swelling around my knees ▲I feel pain when I touch the inside of my knee bone ▲Severe pain when I sit and get up ▲If I walk for more than 1 hour There is a strain on the knee ▲The inner thigh muscle is weak. If two or more of these apply, it may be degenerative arthritis, so it is better to visit a hospital and consult with a medical professional.
Degenerative arthritis is divided into early, middle, and late stages. In the beginning, when you repeat sitting and standing, local pain is felt in the area, but in the middle phase, damaged cartilage fragments get stuck between the bones and bones, causing extreme pain. During this process, symptoms such as swelling of the knee, feeling of heat, and water filling may occur.
If you are experiencing pain enough to be unable to walk, you should suspect the end of degenerative arthritis. In this case, the joint wear is severe and the cartilage between the bones and the bones wears away, resulting in an unbearable level of pain. Even short distances are difficult to move, and in many cases it is difficult to sleep easily due to pain.
One way is to undergo artificial joint surgery at the end of degenerative arthritis. Artificial joint surgery replaces the existing cartilage and inserts a harmless joint into the human body, and has the advantage of helping normal daily life by recovering the range of motion of the joint after surgery. In particular, 3D customized artificial joints are less concerned about side effects in that they use artificial joints suitable for their body.
Yonsei Sarang Hospital Hospital Director Yog-Gon Yoo said, “If the parents are elderly, it is important to visit the hospital in advance to check the condition of the joints, and if degenerative arthritis is found, it is important to receive treatment as soon as possible.” “It is a good idea to visit the hospital after getting a rough idea of the current condition through the computer.”
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