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Apr 15, 2025
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Mr. A, who has endured putting on a pain relief patch, eventually began receiving treatment at the hospital.
Like Mr. A, more and more people are giving up after planning a spring outing. In fact, according to data from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, the number of patients who visited the hospital for arthritis between 2023 and 2024 was the highest in March 2023 and April 2024.
Osteoarthritis is a disease that causes inflammation and pain due to damage to cartilage protecting joints or damage to bones and ligaments due to degenerative changes. Degenerative arthritis is a typical old age disease that commonly occurs around the age of 60, and 84% of all patients are in their 60s or older.
The basic symptom of degenerative arthritis is pain. In the early stages of arthritis, knee pain, which is repeated after pain, is regarded as a natural phenomenon due to aging and is often left unattended, or self-treatment, such as attaching a pain relief patch or applying a poultice to relieve pain, often misses the timing of early treatment. However, degenerative arthritis greatly reduces the quality of life in old age due to extreme knee pain, deformation of joints, and rapid restrictions on external activities. In addition, severe pain can lead to feelings of isolation or depression as external activities decrease due to sharpening nerves or walking restrictions.
Um Sang-hyun (Orthopedic Surgeon), director of the Barunseang Hospital Joint Center, said "Degenerative arthritis is the best treatment direction to not miss the timing of treatment because it is difficult to fully restore the joint condition when the disease occurs and progresses. In the early stages of symptoms, symptoms can be improved by conservative methods such as medication, cartilage injection treatment, and weight control. In addition, PRP (autologous platelet-rich plasma) injection treatment can be performed for patients with mid-term arthritis who have no effect on improving symptoms in conservative treatment and are too early to perform artificial joint surgery. However, if these conservative treatments do not improve symptoms, artificial joint replacement surgery should be considered", he explained.
In order to prevent joint pain, it is recommended to exercise your strength regularly. Muscles play a role in supporting the skeleton along with the ligaments, and the muscles once more surround the bones and ligaments to absorb shock and firmly support them. When muscles are reduced, joint pain becomes severe because the weakened muscles cannot bear the weight that is transmitted to the joints. Therefore, strengthening muscle strength around the joint can reduce joint pain and strengthen the joint.
In the case of the elderly, you can see the effect of strength training just by consistently performing simple strength training that can be done indoors. If your body doesn't have strength overall, it's a good idea to start with the lower body. This is because 70% of the body's entire muscles are concentrated in the lower body, which has a good muscle exercise effect and is easy to increase muscle mass. It is recommended to exercise consistently for about an hour, three times a week, and in addition, eating protein after exercise is effective in strengthening muscle strength.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
