Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Hip calcification




Move your weight to hip joint wear and tear that the joints is among the most frequent subject. In this case, medicine, osteoarthritis, and in daily use are referred to as arthritis of the hip is the most common diseases. As with all of the joints and ball and socket hip joint are covered with cartilage. Cartilaginous structures of the two bones that pain on each other with minimal friction and allow slippage.
This cartilage degradation, erosion and in places to be lost or arthritis is called osteoarthritis. As can be seen from the outside is not such a collection of lime. In a situation like this morning when the first signs in front of groin and thigh pain and discomfort is tatafında. Pain increases with activity, decreases with rest. Many of these symptoms can be in hip disease.
Untreated pain as osteoarthritis progression over the years make it impossible to walk. Progress so that the bone around the joint will develop spines. In the meantime, completely worn out cartilage, bone to bone friction in the joint will has become. Hip movements may disappear almost completely. Weakness and failure in this case consists of more muscles.
Can be seen in families with a predisposition. But the development of overweight later in life, accident, injured cartilage is more commonly seen in people.
Diagnosed by clinical examination and careful consideration of direct x-ray examinations. Tedevi your doctor will suggest to you according to your situation.
Medical (non-surgical) therapy
If you are a non-surgical treatment in early stages of osteoarthritis and can slow the progression of your disease.
Avoid using your hips more.Make regular physical activity. Especially swimming, water aerobics, cycling center maintains muscle strength and joint range of motion helps to protect.Anti-rheumatic, anti-inflammatory drugs kulanılabilir.Sleeping at night should be sufficient.If you have more weight should be evaluatedIt is recommended to use a cane.Surgical Treatment
Develop osteoarthritis at an early age is really a difficult problem in terms of surgery. Hip arthroscopy in the early stages of disease development may be slowed. Hip arthroscopy in the center of the world very little is being done and still in its early stages and have the ability to intervene is limited.
One of the osteotomies are pre-prosthetic surgery. Osteotomy of the head or neck of the femur bone is cut redirected. With this method, the burden of the hip joint re-arranging and / or joint surface of the solid load-bearing areas are brought. This method because of advances in total hip replacement decreased popularity, although in some cases may provide unique opportunities.
The small section of the femoral head cartilage in the hip joint space (especially traumatic ones) in the period since the cartilage transplants osteoatritin hip replacement may postpone the need for the elderly. (See Education Matters - New Approaches to Articular Cartilage Problems)
Radical treatment of hip osteoarthritis is total hip replacement.

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