ARTHRITIS. REASONS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT METHODS. TREATMENT WITH LYAPKO APPLICATORS

ARTHRITIS is a disease of joints of inflammatory character. Approximately every 100-th person has arthritis. This disease affects people of all age. 80% of people in mid-sixties have arthritis.

Illness has such symptoms:

joint pain
reddening, swelling, skin consolidation
constraint and restriction of mobility
temperature increase in a joint
change of a shape of a joint, unnatural crunch at pressure.

There are more than hundred various forms of arthritis which finally become chronic. Most often arthritis affects joints of fingers, knees and hips, shoulder and spinal joints. Refer the People having heriditary pathology of joints, excess weight, allergic diseases, professional and

Often patients don't pay attention to pain feelings before emergence of severe pain or partial restriction of mobility. At late stages of arthritis labor-consuming operation on replacement of a cartilage, a full or partial prosthetic repair of a joint sometimes is required. Though operations on a prosthetic repair of joints are carried out long ago and successfully, surgical treatment of arthritis is a last measure.

Traditional treatment of arthritis is referred on putting off of pain and maintenance of joints. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, hormones, a high-energy physiotherapy, and even, endoprosthesis replacement are used for this purpose. Such treatment of arthritis provides only temporary result and brings various side effects. In general, it is not a secret that many patients treat arthritis all life, observing at the same time steady deterioration in health.

Methods of physiotherapeutic treatment and rehabilitation promoting improvement of a metabolism in a cartilaginous and bone tissue, electrophoresis with dimeksidy, magnetotherapy, laser therapy, KVCh-therapy should be applied to treat arthritis. If there are no contraindications, courses of physiotherapeutic treatment should be applied each 5–6 months. It is also possible to use Lyapko multineedle applicators which have reflex and mechanical and micro electrophoresis effect.

Patients with arthritis also should:

select orthopedic footwear with a soft sole and fixed heel; wear arch supports, kneecaps, canes when walking;
do remedial gymnastics;
reduce loads on joints (reduce body weight);
get rid of addictions (refuse smoking, excessive consumption of coffee drinks).