What are the symptoms of osteoarthritis on the waist

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My grandmother has been in poor health for so many years. When she was young, she suffered a lot and sold coolies. Therefore, her waist was not very good. Today, I took her to the hospital for a physical examination. The doctor said she had osteoarthritis on her waist. Now let me talk about the symptoms of osteoarthritis on the waist.

What are the symptoms of osteoarthritis on the waist

First, primary osteoarthritis affects the lumbar joint most frequently. Patients often complain of joint click, pain when walking, improve after rest, feel stiff when sitting for a long time, walking and relaxing muscles can make the stiffness disappear. The symptoms may vary from mild to severe, even from day to day. Joint swelling is often caused by hyperosteogeny or a small amount of exudation. Acute swelling indicates intra-articular hemorrhage. When the disease progresses, the activity of knee joint is limited, which can cause disuse atrophy, and even valgus or varus deformity.

Second, there are two sets of joint devices in the spine, i.e. the intervertebral disc and the superior and inferior facet joints, and the uncinate vertebra joint (lushka joint) in cervical vertebra 2-7. Most of the primary cases are due to degenerative disc degeneration, nucleus pulposus dehydration, intervertebral space stenosis, bone wear, osteophyte hyperplasia, and most of them have no clinical manifestations. If there are symptoms, they are of different severity. Most of them are chronic disease course, but sometimes acute attack is caused by external factors such as injury, weight lifting, and sudden spinal movement. In the cervical spine, the osteophyte at the edge of uncinate joint can make the cervical nerve root compressed when it passes through the intervertebral foramen, resulting in recurrent local neck pain, which can radiate to the forearm and fingers, and can cause numbness and lack of flexibility of fingers.

Third: the osteophyte at the posterior edge of the vertebral body can protrude to the spinal canal and squeeze the spinal cord, causing numbness and weakness of the lower and upper limbs, and even quadriplegia. Basilar artery insufficiency may appear when vertebral artery is compressed. Degenerative changes of thoracic vertebrae are rare. In the lumbar spine, L4-5, L5-S1 is the most prone to disc herniation, the main symptoms are lumbago with sciatica, often occurs after sprain, lifting heavy objects, bending force, physical examination local tenderness, straight leg high test positive, there may be changes in sensation, muscle strength and tendon reflex.

matters needing attention

There are many reasons for this disease, it may be because of a cold or because young people hurt the joints of the waist. After suffering from lumbar arthritis, we must be careful not to let ourselves catch cold, and we should also take medicine on time, and we can pull out cupping or something.