The Lunar New Year holiday is approaching. The joyful Lunar New Year holiday, when the whole family gathers, is a great opportunity to check the health of parents, which we haven’t seen often.
However, this Lunar New Year holiday is difficult to visit due to the spread of Corona 19.
In particular, joint health is an important factor in determining the quality of life in old age, and children need special attention in order not to miss the right time for treatment.
This holiday, let’s look at the non-face-to-face joint health check method that can be checked by phone calls with parents that cannot be seen in person.
▶ You can check the’Knee Joint Health Checklist’, when pain occurs, and leg shape transformation!
Among the joint health of parents, it is good to first look at knee degenerative arthritis.
This is because knee degenerative arthritis is a representative senile disease that occurs a lot with age.
The knee joint is a’consumable’ tissue that wears away as you use it, and it moves a lot, ages quickly under the load of weight, and damaged cartilage does not heal naturally.
In the case of knee degenerative arthritis, the later the delay is, the more severe joint damage becomes, causing problems such as movement as well as psychological atrophy, making normal daily life difficult.
Because of this, it is important to quickly identify abnormal signs and seek professional treatment.
First, ▲ is there a pain, swelling, and hot sensation when touching the knee? ▲ When is the usual knee pain? ▲ When standing with both feet on, the knee and knee are touching ▲ When sitting with the legs straight, the back of the knee touches the floor,
▲ When going down the stairs, you can check the condition of your parents’ knee joints by holding the handrail and not going down to the side or back.
Degenerative knee arthritis is a disease in which the cartilage, which acts as a buffer between the knee joints, wears out with aging and causes inflammation when the joint bones collide with each other.
As the joint bones touch, it irritates the surrounding tissues, causing pain, as well as swelling of the knee and fever.
I feel pain when I sit up and go up and down the stairs, but when I get to the terminal stage, the pain becomes so severe that my legs aches and I can’t sleep at night even when I’m still.
A change in the shape of the leg is also a representative symptom of degenerative arthritis, which occurs when cartilage wears out and joint function is lost.
If the knees and knees do not touch when standing with both feet attached and there is enough space for the fist to fit, the cartilage has already been almost worn out and the pain is likely to be severe.
In addition, when the knee is stretched while sitting, the back of the knee does not touch the floor, or the pain intensifies if you go down the stairs right away.
“In the case of knee degenerative arthritis, drug or rehabilitation treatment is performed at the early stage of cartilage damage,” said Mokdong Himchan Hospital Director Nam Chang-Hyeon. “If the progress of arthritis is severe and your daily life is limited, consider surgical treatment.” And
“The knee artificial joint surgery performed when the cartilage is worn out is generally recommended to patients over 65 years of age considering the life of the artificial joint. The recent robot system has been applied to provide high accuracy and rapid recovery, so even elderly patients can operate with confidence. You can get it.”
▶’Hip health checklist’, both leg posture is difficult and can be checked with a’limb’ step!
If you are having trouble sitting with your parents in a bilateral position in the video call screen, you should suspect hip joint disease.
Representative hip joint diseases include’avascular necrosis of the femoral head,’ in which tissues die due to poor blood supply, and’degenerative hip arthritis,’ caused by aging.
In addition, in these days when heavy snowfall is frequent, a fall accident on an ice road can cause major injuries such as fractures of the hip joint, so you should not forget to ask “Be careful with falls”.
Whether the parents’ hip joint is abnormal can be determined by ▲ whether both legs are possible ▲ whether the length of both legs is different ▲ whether there is a limp when walking ▲ whether the hips or groin are sore.
The hip joint is a joint that connects the pelvis and the femur (the thigh bone) and withstands a load of nearly three times the weight when walking.
The hip joint, like the knee joint, cannot avoid degenerative arthritis in which cartilage wears out as aging progresses.
The hip joint is a ball-like femur head interlocked in the pelvic bone. This femoral head is more likely to have blood circulation disorders than other areas, so if the blood supply is not smooth, this area will rot and cause avascular necrosis of the femoral head.
If you have a hip joint disease, the bilateral leg posture can be difficult. This is because, as the range of motion of the joint is gradually limited due to hip arthritis or necrosis, the pain is severely felt when the thigh is in a position where the thigh is open to the outside like a leg.
In addition, when the cartilage wears, the gap between the joints narrows, the necrotic area is depressed, and the length of the legs is shortened, the length of both legs is different, so when walking, they may walk while limp. As you walk with a limp, you move less where the problem occurred, so the muscles weaken and one side of the thigh becomes thinner.
Usually when walking, pain appears in the hip or groin, but it can also hurt to the front of the knee or thigh connected by nerve trunks such as the hip joint.
Hip joint disease is usually left with little or no pain at an early stage, making it difficult to detect early. Many people visit a hospital after being seriously damaged.
In the early days, conservative treatments such as drugs, physical therapy, and injection treatment can also relieve symptoms, and when the disease becomes severe, various treatments such as non-surgical and surgical treatment can be selected according to the patient’s condition and symptoms.
If daily life is difficult due to severe pain, artificial joint surgery is necessary. Hip joint surgery, like the knee, is a method of helping to function properly by inserting an artificial joint instead of a damaged joint.
Dong-Hyun Seo (orthopedic specialist) of Bupyeong Hemchan Hospital said, “If you don’t treat joint diseases in time, your daily life becomes uncomfortable and can lead to secondary diseases such as chronic diseases or depression. Because there are many cases where the treatment period is missed, the children need to look more closely.”
“As the quality of life can be degraded if joint damage is left unattended, the treatment result will be better if the condition of parents is identified through the joint health checklist and leads to early treatment,” he said.
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