The middle-aged and elderly people may have experienced more or less the soreness, pain, swelling, and even bone spurs in their joints, causing great inconvenience to their life and work, and the medical term for this troubling disease is arthritis. Of course, there are many types of arthritis, such as age-related arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis, etc. Among them, age-related arthritis is the most common and most troubling arthritis in our daily life. According to statistics, it accounts for up to 80.17% of patients with all types of arthritis in China. The incidence of age-related arthritis in China is >50% in people over 65 years of age and >80% in people over 75 years of age. As China gradually enters an aging society, the impact of age-related arthritis on us is bound to become greater and greater. Therefore, here we focus on geriatric arthritis. Age-related arthritis is also called degenerative arthritis, osteoarthritis, and osteophytes, and they are the same thing. It is perhaps the oldest and most chronic disease in the world, and we can find traces of age-related arthritis in the fossils of prehistoric humans and dinosaurs. When experts examined Egyptian mummies, they also found the presence of age-related arthritis. It usually affects our knee joints, hip joints, finger joints and spine. So how do we know if we have age-related arthritis? If you are 45 years old or older, you can use the following symptoms as a reference to test yourself: you feel stiffness in your joints when you wake up in the morning, and you have to move around for a while to feel better, but you gradually feel pain in your joints after you resume your activities. After walking for a period of time, you are forced to stop and rest for a while due to joint pain, and in severe cases, you may experience limping. When walking up and down stairs, I feel pain in my joints and I have to walk up and down sideways because I am unable to do so. It is hard to stand up from a chair and you have to use your hands to hold on to something to get up slowly. You have the experience of not being able to squat while standing or not being able to stand up while squatting. Often you feel friction in the joints, and the joints do not feel smooth when you move them. The hip joint may feel pain in the groin or inner thigh, and sometimes the pain may be felt in the knee joint along the above mentioned areas. The finger joints may feel swollen, stiff, red, and swollen, and sometimes small nodules may be felt under the skin on the back of the fingers themselves. In the early stages, the joint pain mostly appears after activity and is relieved by rest, but as the disease lengthens, the time forced to rest also gradually lengthens, and in severe cases, the pain will persist and not be relieved by rest or sleep, and eventually the joint will become deformed. If you have any of these symptoms, you should not take it lightly and should go to the hospital for systematic examination and treatment. How to systematically treat age-related arthritis? We often encounter some middle-aged and elderly people with age-related arthritis who, because of their eagerness to cure the disease, take a medicine here and an injection there, and end up spending a lot of money but not curing the disease, instead delaying the treatment and causing the disease to get worse. Taking the correct and reasonable treatment procedures and measures not only saves time and money, but also achieves twice the result with half the effort. Here are some measures for treating age-related arthritis: 1. Some patients with age-related arthritis, due to joint pain when moving, in order to avoid pain, they try to reduce joint activities and do not move when they can. In fact, this approach is wrong, because joint inactivity will lead to the muscles around the joints do not get exercise, gradually atrophy, making the muscle strength to protect the joints weakened, and the pain will be more severe in the future when the joints are active because there is no effective muscle protection. The correct method is to develop a suitable exercise plan according to your physical condition and joint condition, to the extent that you sweat a little and do not feel overly tired, and mild pain can be tolerated. Exercise can include walking, doing housework, climbing stairs, doing gymnastics, playing tai chi, dancing, etc., all of which can effectively maintain muscle strength. 2.Further physical therapy can be used, such as hot compresses on the affected area, spectrum instrument irradiation, ultra-short wave therapy, hot wax therapy, daily auxiliary treatment measures include the use of crutches, wearing a waist brace, wearing soft-soled shoes, etc. 3.Weight loss therapy. Obesity is a major enemy of the health of middle-aged and elderly people, and is also a clear pathogenic factor for age-related arthritis. For obese patients with age-related arthritis, weight loss has many benefits, it can reduce the pressure caused by weight on the joints, and can also reduce the inconvenience caused by obesity to the necessary exercise. 4, you can apply some topical pain relief cream medicine to the painful parts of the joint, or directly paste ointment treatment. 5.If the effect of external medicine is not obvious, you can take some oral anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs, it is best to use drugs with small gastrointestinal reactions, if there is still a gastrointestinal reaction, you can use anal suppositories instead of oral. 6, intra-articular injection of drugs can also be effective in relieving joint pain, which is like adding some lubricant between the gears of the machine can make the machine run more flexible, generally once a week, 3-5 times as a course of treatment. 7, severe age-related arthritis patients using the above methods may still not be obvious, then you can no longer delay, but should take decisive measures to surgical treatment. The less severe cases can be treated with arthroscopy. Arthroscopy is a surgical procedure in which two to three small eyes are inserted through the skin around the diseased joint and some miniature surgical instruments (including a miniature camera) are inserted through the eyes so that the doctor can see and operate inside the joint through a TV screen. It does not require skin incision, causes little damage to the patient, is inexpensive, and the results are quite good. More severe forms of age-related arthritis cannot be treated with arthroscopy and should instead be treated with a surface replacement of the artificial joint. Artificial joint replacement is to remove the surface of the joint that is too worn out to be used and put on a smooth metal joint. It basically solves the pain problem and usually lasts 10-15 years, but the disadvantage is that the surgery is more damaging, more expensive and has various surgical risks. The above treatment measures are not completely independent, and can be combined with the treatment under the guidance of a doctor for better results. Knowing the above methods, patients with age-related arthritis can have the right treatment in mind.