Grandma Li is 78 years old this year, retired before the university teacher, retired, but also can not be idle, not only can handle daily chores, but also on the street to buy food, teach children, although occasionally a little knee pain, they think “old arms and legs” is also very normal, from not taking it seriously. Lunar New Year 23 years ago, she went to the street to buy a lot of food, they mentioned the fourth floor of the home, the right leg of the knee like a cone as difficult, I did not expect to sleep a sleep up and found that the right knee joints are swollen like a steamed bun, the pain of the heart so that she did not dare to move, ate a number of painkillers, the effect is not obvious, and then from the outside looking for a masseur to massage the massage at home for two days, and the symptoms do not see any improvement. Now look to the New Year, the old man is bedridden, although anxious, but is not willing to see a doctor. Considering the good service attitude and high technology of the military hospital, her family still used a wheelchair to “kidnap” her to the rheumatology department of the hospital. I checked the condition in detail, and quickly concluded that the old man had “osteoarthritis”, in order to recover as soon as possible, the need for hospitalization, looking at the old man’s reluctant expression, I told her with confidence: “Old man, please believe us, will let you go home for the New Year with joy! ” Seeing that the doctor was so sure, the old man finally agreed, although there was still a little doubt in her mind. To her surprise, although it is the end of the year, the rheumatology department’s work is still so intense and orderly, the doctor timely for her relevant examination, treatment, nurses are skilled, gentle action, her condition quickly under control, joint pain is improving every day, to the third day can really walk on the ground, and after two days she basically can not feel the pain in the joints, walking, going to the toilet easily, can enjoy life like a normal person, and can be used as the same as a normal person, and can not feel any pain. She was able to enjoy life like a normal person. There are many patients like Grandma Li. Fortunately, she was “kidnapped” to the hospital and received regular and timely treatment. Many people think that when you get older, back and leg pain is a natural phenomenon, and you don’t need to see a doctor or take medication. In fact, this view is wrong. According to statistics, almost every old man has degenerative joint aging, which is a physiological change, of which 80% are symptomatic, the most common manifestation is joint pain. The most common manifestation is joint pain. This degenerative disease, which is mainly characterized by joint pain, is also known as osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is the oldest and most common human disease. The World Health Organization lists osteoarthritis as the most widespread problem that harms human beings after cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes, which are the three major killers. Among the 135 common human diseases, 106 diseases are related to bone nutritional deficiencies. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, the prevalence of bone and joint diseases in the world is more than 50% in people over 50 years old, 80% in people over 55 years old, and almost all middle-aged and elderly people over 60 years old suffer from different degrees of bone and joint diseases. There are currently 355 million people with osteoarthritis worldwide. Osteoarthritis was formerly known as degenerative joint disease, osteoarthrosis or proliferative arthritis. The incidence of osteoarthritis increases with age, and there is no difference between men and women; before the age of 45, men are more affected, and after that age, women are more affected. In recent years, osteoarthritis has become younger and more common. Osteoarthritis used to be found in people over 60 years of age, but now it is often seen in people as young as 50 years of age. In younger people, it is often caused by sports injuries or after fractures. In addition, early degenerative arthritis is not easy to pay attention to. Those who have more than three episodes per year and have resting joint pain should go to the hospital to check the cause and get early treatment. In addition to age, risk factors for osteoarthritis include overweight, injury and diabetes. Osteoarthritis can affect any joint, but occurs most often in the small joints of the hands and the first metacarpophalangeal joints. It also often affects the hips, knees and spine, and rarely involves the wrists, elbows and ankles, unless there has been a trauma or unusual compression. Osteoarthritis is a treatable disease, early patients in the treatment of the condition is quickly improved; with the prolongation of the course of the disease, the condition is gradually aggravated, the late stage can appear joint disability, the need for joint replacement and other surgical therapies, not only to increase the patient’s pain, but also the medical cost is staggering. In our country, due to the knowledge of rheumatic disease has not been widely popularized, many disabling rheumatic diseases can not get formal treatment, resulting in patients with bone destruction and disability, see such patients really heartbreaking. Misdiagnosis and misdiagnosis are still very common, many people do not understand rheumatic diseases, and often consult orthopedics and surgery when they have joint pain. Especially hateful is that the so-called “ancestral secret recipe”, the jianghu wandering doctors, fake drugs to take advantage of the situation, so that a considerable proportion of rheumatism patients suffer from it. We remind the elderly osteoarthritis patients, similar symptoms must be taken seriously, as soon as possible to the establishment of rheumatology or rheumatology immunology department of the hospital, early diagnosis, early treatment, so as not to delay the condition.