Expert: Knee osteoarthritis favors women's weight as an important incentive

China News Online, October 12th (Chen Jing and Shen Li) The weather is getting cold, windy and rainy, do you feel knee pain or discomfort; do you feel knee pain when going up and down the stairs; whether there is frequent bounce in the knee joint.
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if With these symptoms, then you may have knee osteoarthritis
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October 12th is "World Arthritis Day"
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Gong Li, director of the Tuina Department of Yueyang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said in an interview that knee osteoarthritis has a certain relationship with age, gender, weight, and injury

The expert said that weight is also an important cause of knee osteoarthritis, and pointed out that a very important cause of knee osteoarthritis is the uneven force of the joints and the overload
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Studies have found that the incidence of knee osteoarthritis in obese women is 4 times that of normal-weight women and 4.

Knee osteoarthritis, the main clinical manifestations are knee joint pain, morning stiffness, poor flexion and extension, abnormal joint noise, and even joint swelling and deformity
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Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is because of feeling the wind, cold and dampness, the meridian is blocked, and the meridian is blocked, so it is also called "old cold legs"

Gong Li told reporters that for knee osteoarthritis patients, joint function is more important
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How to objectively evaluate the knee joint function of patients? Most patients with knee osteoarthritis have abnormal gait at an early stage, and imaging examinations only statically observe the condition of the damaged knee joint, and cannot objectively evaluate the function of the knee joint

The "Hands and Joints" 2021 World Arthritis Day health clinic activity was held in Yueyang Hospital on the 12th
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Director Gong Li’s team of doctors answered questions raised by the public about knee joints, shoulder joints, and hip joints, conducted health consultations, and taught the public to perform targeted exercises

During the interview, the reporter learned that the use of massage techniques to treat patients with knee arthritis in the early and mid-term can promote the recovery of flexor and extensor muscles and achieve curative effects
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Gong Li told reporters that his team has conducted in-depth research on knee osteoarthritis from clinical treatment methods to experimental mechanisms of action, and found that most patients with knee osteoarthritis have pain, flexion and extension dysfunction, and muscle weakness as their main symptoms.