Parents' Day. Check your knees
May 08, 2025
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If you have knee pain, your gait may not be correct, and you may detect abnormal signals in your gait, such as repeating walking or limping. If the wrong posture or gait becomes a habit and lasts for a long time, it can cause damage to the spine or knee joints, and if the damage accumulates, it can develop into a disease. In general, the knee, which weighs 75 to 90% of its weight when walking or standing, is the most vulnerable part of arthritis, and even a close look at its gait can tell whether the parents' knees are healthy or not.
When walking, degenerative arthritis progresses from the inside of the knee due to a lot of strength inside the knee, and if you change your walking posture to walk so that it doesn't hurt, it causes internal arthritis, which accelerates the O-shape deformation, in which only cartilage in the inner joint is abnormally worn out. If the straight leg is deformed into an O shape or the O leg is severely deformed, cartilage damage caused by degenerative arthritis should be suspected.
My parents felt pain or sat down when they walked up and down the stairs If you wake up holding a shelf or chair when you stand up, it is highly likely to be degenerative arthritis. In addition, if your walking seems uncomfortable, and your knees are swollen frequently or your movement speed is slower than before, this can also be seen as a symptom of degenerative arthritis.
Early degenerative arthritis can also be effective as conservative treatments such as drug treatment, cartilage injection treatment, and weight control. 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, PRP (autologous platelet-rich plasma) injection can be performed with the Ministry of Health and Welfare's new medical technology. In addition, arthritis patients under the age of 60 who are relatively young can get knee pain relief and cartilage regeneration effects through megakarty treatment or stem cell treatment, a new medical technology.
If cartilage damage has progressed only inwardly, it is possible to correct the bent leg and treat arthritis through proximal tibia osteotomy. However, if the cartilage damage has progressed to terminal arthritis, artificial joint replacement has no choice.
Director Chung Gu-hwang (Orthopedic Surgeon), head of the Joint Center at Barunseang Hospital, said, `During degenerative arthritis patients, knee pain is often regarded as a 'disease that occurs when they get older', leaving the pain unattended or worsening the symptoms by enduring the pain alone. Chronic knee pain can lead to cardiovascular disease or depression because it limits external activities, so family interest helps with early diagnosis and treatment"After Parents' Day, more children visit the hospital with their parents. In an aging society, it is wise to check your knee health regularly rather than enduring the pain of whether your children will be burdened as health in old age determines not only your own but also your family's happiness, he advised.
If you plan to visit your parents' house ahead of Parents' Day, please take a walk together and see if there is anything wrong with your parents' walking, if your knees are swollen or painful than usual, and if your knees are bent in an O-shape. On Parents' Day, isn't the best gift for parents the children's attention?
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
