17/06/2022
OSTEOARTHRITIS WITHOUT EARLY TREATMENT - UNPREDICTABLE HARM
Osteoarthritis causes anxiety for patients, greatly affecting the health and life of patients. If not treated early, it can lead to unpredictable consequences.
⛔️ Joint deformity
Osteoarthritis inevitably causes joint deformity complications, due to the appearance of bone spurs in the joint, or due to deviation of the joint axis, herniation of the synovial membrane. When it comes to the stage of degenerative joint disease, the patient will find it very difficult to move and move. Severe complications of osteoarthritis also cause scoliosis, spondylolisthesis
⛔️ Restricted movement, disabled, polio
Osteoarthritis makes the patient always feel pain and fatigue at all times. With such a condition for a long time, the joints gradually stiffen, shrink, reduce flexibility and mobility because the joints are full of bone spurs. Along with that is muscle atrophy, making already weak joints and muscles even weaker. Therefore, people with osteoarthritis have a very high rate of disability, paralysis, along with nerve compression syndromes and a life-threatening survival rate.
⛔️ Leads to many other diseases of bones and joints
Complications of osteoarthritis lead to other related diseases such as disc herniation, disc degeneration, spinal calcification, bone cancer, joint spurs, and bone and joint infections that are very dangerous, making the system more susceptible to damage. The musculoskeletal system is destroyed. More serious complications of osteoarthritis are heart attacks and strokes, threatening the health and lives of many people with osteoarthritis.
⛔️ Sleep disorders
Osteoarthritis causes pain and stiffness in the joints. That can affect sleep. Meanwhile, if you don't get enough sleep, the level of joint pain increases. Stiffness and limited range of motion also make sleeping uncomfortable.