Pros and cons of various methods of treating femoral head necrosis

       At present, there are various methods of treating osteonecrosis of the femoral head, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. At present, Western medicine has no special treatment for this disease, Western countries have invested a lot of human and financial resources to research and conquer this stubborn disease of osteonecrosis, the following list of Western medicine methods, for reference.  1, interventional therapy: once popular, is the direct injection of drugs into the arterial vessels, this method is also a kind of indirect therapy, through the drug to embolism dissolution, in order to achieve curative effect. However, there are numerous disadvantages.  (1) Not suitable for senior patients: this type of patients are mostly accompanied by atherosclerosis, vascular brittleness, prone to accidents.  (2) Easy to make the endothelial hyperplasia triggered vascular occlusion, aggravating the disease.  2.Drilling decompression: Some people call osteonecrosis intraosseous hypertension, so there is a drilling decompression therapy, the therapy has been basically eliminated, it is only suitable for early patients, drilling can stop the disease, clinical verification, is not ideal, and the femoral head and re-inflicted damage, or poor sturdiness, but also easy to cause the femoral head collapse.  3, with vascular graft: the nearby blood vessels are bundled together and implanted in the necrotic area, the clinical are only preoperative imaging, no postoperative test; and many patients have done this operation, and keep no weight-bearing after the operation, and the condition still tends to deteriorate.  4.Bone flap transplantation with vascular tip: The femoral flap or internal iliac artery bone flap is transplanted into the osteonecrosis area, which is clinically proven to have a minimal survival rate and is very traumatic and expensive.  5, femoral head replacement: This method is the most commonly used treatment in Western medicine, but its indications are narrow, and many complications make patients shudder and shudder.  (1) Age limit: It is only suitable for elderly people over 60 years old and physically strong, and people of this age are often accompanied by other diseases and weaknesses, and cannot tolerate the trauma brought by surgery.  (2) It is suitable for people with femoral head necrosis causing shortening of the affected limb of 5cm or more.  (3) Young people can not do this surgery: because young people are more active, wear and tear on the prosthesis, and every 10-15 years need to be replaced again, and the second surgery is much more difficult than the first, the third and fourth is even more unthinkable.  (4) Rejection reaction: fever, redness, swelling, pain, etc. after surgery.  (5) Complications: postoperative pain, restricted movement, acetabular wear, prosthetic fracture, prosthetic infection, bone cortex penetration, intraoperative femoral neck splinter fracture, fat embolism, etc. This method without any retreat is like gambling, and if you lose, you will regret for life. Therefore, some doctors in the clinic advise early and middle stage patients not to treat and let them develop to a serious state before performing to this surgery, which is obviously unscientific, but instead delays the best time to treat the condition.  Due to the inappropriateness of Western medical treatment, there are many conservative therapies using traditional Chinese medicine in China, such as: 1, external traction and internal medicine: for the relief of pain, bone quality changes have a significant role in slowing down the development of osteonecrosis.  2, massage, acupuncture, physiotherapy, fumigation can improve circulation, as a series of complementary therapies for the disease.  3, functional exercise: reasonable and appropriate exercise 4, dietary therapy: can eat more calcium, phosphorus appropriate high protein, low fat food, reasonable with diet.