What Is The Best Treatment For Osteoarthritis Of Knee
OA knee is a degenerative joint disease, in which joint cartilages breaks down and causes the bone to rub against each other.
Treatment for osteoarthritis of knee depends on patients signs and symptoms, and the stage of osteoarthritis.
Best treatment line for OA:
1. PHYSIOTHERAPY
2. AYURVEDA
3. WEIGHT LOSS.
Let’s get into the details.
Physiotherapy for osteoarthritis of knee –
1. Mobilisation of knee joint – Mobilisation techniques help to re- align the bones and stimulates joint mechanoreceptors.
2. Muscle relaxation – generally people tend to suffer muscle pain along with OA knee pain. Relaxing the surrounding muscles helps to reduce pain and maintain muscle balance.
3. Exercises for OA Knee – the most important part is exercises, which stimulates and recruit muscles, hence help to maintain muscular balance and proper load shifting.
4. Electrotherapy – Ultrasound has shown high evidence in healing torn cartilages. TENS is used to reduce pain causes.
5. Cryotherapy – cryotherapy over knee joint helps to reduce the inflammatory process going in on knee joint.
Ayurvedic approach for Osteoarthritis of knee –
Ayurvedic medicines aims to increase synovial fluid in knee joint, strengthens the joint ligaments. Hence, target to reverse the damaging process.
Nutrition for knee osteoarthritis –
Patient with knee OA suffer lot of pain in ADLs, which causes movement limitations and drastic weight gain. Proper nutrition and a weight loss diet helps to reduce weight and hence pressure from knee joint. The more the weight, the more the reduction in joint space. So, weight reduction is equally important along with medications and exercises.
Also, we highly recommend a hinge knee brace to patients which causes unloading of upper body weight on knees and decreases pain in walking, hence helps the patient to walk properly.
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So, a holistic approach is required to maintain a healthy knee joint and prevent the further degeneration in knee joint, which will enhance overall mobility and reduce knee pain.