Is joint pain arthritis?
Arthritis generally refers to inflammatory diseases that occur in human joints and their surrounding tissues, including rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, gouty arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and so on. Arthritis has other symptoms besides joint pain, such as joint swelling, heat pain, dysfunction and joint deformity.
Joint pain may be arthritis, not necessarily arthritis. What we need to know is that there are many reasons for joint pain, such as cancer, osteoporosis, overwork, joint cold and so on. If there is joint pain, you should go to the hospital for examination in time to find out the reason, and use drugs reasonably after the diagnosis is a certain disease.
When you get older, your physical function will decline, and many diseases will come to you. The elderly have more joint pain. From the perspective of modern medicine, it is fundamental to treat diseases from the etiology and the essence of diseases. Prevention and treatment of joint pain should do the following:
1. Reduce the movements of squatting, going up and down stairs and going up and down slopes.
2. Enhance the strength and resistance of calf muscles.
3, pay attention to keep your knees warm
4. Severe pain oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs plus glucosamine tablets.
5, can be treated according to TCM syndrome differentiation.
6. The urgent need for surgery is to improve the quality of life.
Is stem cell effective in treating arthritis? Is there any clinical application?
Arthritis mainly occurs in cartilage (that is, the tissue that buffers the end of the joint bone). Studies have shown that the aging/loss of mesenchymal stem cells is one of the causes of osteoarthritis. Due to cartilage injury, the ability of mesenchymal stem cells to repair tissues and promote cartilage regeneration in vivo is weakened, and the invasion of inflammation accelerates the decomposition and wear of cartilage, leading to irreversible pathological changes. In some cases, all cartilage will wear away, leaving friction with bones and causing pain.
In the early stage of arthritis, the main conservative treatment is to relieve pain, but drugs can't stop the progress of osteoarthritis; In the later stage, the joint needs surgical replacement. The joint is a relatively closed cavity structure. Treatment can not cure the symptoms, and surgical treatment also faces problems such as allograft rejection and sequelae. There are many clinical reports about stem cell technology in the treatment of knee arthritis at home and abroad, and it has also entered the clinical trial record of related treatment. A series of clinical studies show that mesenchymal stem cells can improve patients' pain, joint function and quality of life.
Is stem cell effective in treating arthritis?
At present, in the traditional drug treatment of osteoarthritis, it can only temporarily relieve the pain symptoms, but can not act on the diseased joints, prevent the progress of the lesions, delay the good treatment opportunity, and eventually become disabled because of pain and dysfunction. Physical therapy can only improve local microcirculation and relieve temporary symptoms, but can't solve the fundamental problem. There are many ways to treat arthritis. Traditional conservative treatment methods, such as oral medication, can only relieve pain and symptoms. Stem cell therapy can secrete active growth factors, promote the repair and regeneration of cartilage tissue injury and treat knee cartilage injury.