About osteoarthritis

What is osteoarthritis?

Tearing knee osteoarthritis is a disease in which the cartilage in the knee joint is damaged, mainly causes knee pain or joint liquid when walking.
Initially deformed knee ionsis symptoms cause pain when standing up and at the beginning of walking.
In the middle, pain symptoms appear in the sitting and stairs.
Furthermore, as deformed knee osteoarthritis progresses, pain will not be removed even during rest, and the deformation will be noticeable (O-legs are conspicuous), and the knees will not be completely extended not only on stairs but also on flat ground.
If you get hindered in your daily life, you are more likely to have osteoarthritis of knee.

Causes of knee osteoarthritis

The cause is often caused by aging of joint cartilage, and is also involved in body-shaped characteristics such as obesity, O-legs, and X-legs, as well as gene (genes). In addition, it may occur after repeated infections such as trauma such as fracture, ligament rupture, semi-moonplate damage, purulent and simple arthritis.

In aging, the joint cartilage loses elasticity with age, and the joints are deformed. The gender ratio is 1: 4, and women are more common, and the more the age is, the higher the affection rate.

It is thought that such elements are related to the development of knee osteoarthritis in combination.

Prevention (precautions in daily life)

• Train the muscles in front of the thighs (quadriceps) by foot -raising gymnastics
• Avoid sitting as much as possible
• In the case of obesity, reduce weight
• Do not cool your knees, warm and improve blood circulation
• Use Western -style toilets
• Avoid excessive exercise that puts a burden on your knees

Inspection method

Examination and palpation are performed to check whether or not the inside of the knee has tenderness, the range of joint movements, swelling and O-leg transformation, and perform X-rays (X-rays) tests. Add an MRI test if necessary.

General treatment

Treatment of deformed knee osteoarthritis includes conservation therapy and surgical therapy.
If the symptoms are mild, conservative treatments are used with painkiller or external drugs, or hyaluronic acid injections are performed in the knee joint (drug therapy).
In addition, exercise equipment rehabilitation such as quadrice muscle training training, joint motion improvement training (exercise therapy), and physical therapy that warms the knee.
We may provide brace therapy to create sole plates and knee equipment.

If such conservative therapy does not improve the symptoms, we will consider surgical therapy.
Surgery therapy includes oloresis (endoscopy) surgery, high -level tibial bone cutting (cut bones to correct deformation), and knee joint replacement.

Our treatment method

For those who are no longer in pain, hyaluronic acid injections, or those who do not want to undergo surgery such as artificial joints, there is treatment in regenerative medicine.
We provide the following regeneration treatment.

• PRP-FD injection
• Culture stem cells treatment
• Treatment with pulpal stem cells culture supernatant liquid
• PRP therapy
• ACRS therapy

From the director

Even with knee pain, the cause is not one, but also a composite of a disease name such as goose inflammation, iliacoritis, and patella tendonitis, for example, in addition to osteoarthritis. increase.
At the same time, the pressure is examined at the time of the consultation, and at the same time, not only the X-ray test, but also various methods such as MRI and in some cases blood tests are used.