Biological drugs may be especially useful for treating severe arthritis in children.
Non-drug treatments for arthritis
There are several natural ways to manage arthritis pain.
“Healthy eating, regular exercise, applying heat and cold to the joints, and taking short 15-minute rest breaks throughout the day can help improve your symptoms. A study has shown that even light exercise can relieve knee arthritis pain and increase range of motion. Therapy arthritis includes massage, acupuncture, biofeedback and cognitive behavioral therapy. It is also important to work with a physical therapist to improve your posture and range of motion,” family doctor Tatyana Zakharova says specifically for MedicForum.
Surgical arthritis treatment
Surgery can be very helpful in the right situation, and is especially important before joint pain affects sleep, inability to exercise, or results in joint restriction.
Several options for surgery to choose from relieve arthritis pain, depending on how it affects your body:
- Arthroscopy: Surgeons use a camera and a small incision to locate and repair damaged tissues, cartilage and ligaments around the knee, shoulder, hip and other joints.
- Total joint replacement (endoprosthetics): a joint (usually the hip or knee) is replaced with an implant.
- Grinding or partial joint replacement surgery: part of the joint is replaced with an implant.
- Revision joint surgery: replacement of a damaged, defective, or infected implant.
- Arthrodesis or fusion surgery: hardware such as pins , are used to join two or more bones together to lock a joint in place.
- Osteotomy: A wedge is added to a bone or some or all of the bone is removed to take weight off an area damaged by arthritis.
< li>Synovectomy: The lining of the joint is partially or completely removed to limit damage to the surrounding cartilage.
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