How can I take care of myself with knee osteoarthritis?

       1, weight loss: Some people collect the material more than 30 years before the occurrence of knee osteoarthropathy, found that at the age of 37 years old more than 20% of the standard weight, the risk of osteoarthropathy for men is 1.5 times the standard weight, 2.1 times for women. In the next 36 years, 60% of overweight people had knee osteoarthropathy, and the risk of severe knee osteoarthropathy increased to 1.9 times for men and 3.2 times for women, suggesting that obesity may be a greater risk factor for severe knee osteoarthropathy. Therefore, overly obese people should lose weight.  2, pay attention to warmth: cold and cold is the cause of the onset of osteoarthritis of the knee, should pay attention to warmth, in the summer to prevent air conditioning, electric fans blowing directly against the knee.  3, pay attention to nutrition: long-term diarrhea, digestive malabsorption, resulting in malnutrition, affecting bone metabolism, joint cartilage degeneration in advance, these people suffer from arthritis than the normal age, -0 disease heavy. Therefore, there are gastric disease, biliary tract diseases and other digestive system diseases to be treated in a timely manner.  4, prevention and control of anemia: anemic people or long periods of excessive menstruation or hemorrhoids bleeding, should be treated in a timely manner. Chinese medicine believes that “blood does not nourish the tendons” will be the whole body joint pain, “the knee is the meeting of the tendons”, the knee joint pain is often the first to occur.  In conclusion, osteoarthrosis of the knee is a degenerative osteoarthrosis, and its occurrence is related to the aging of the human body. Patients should understand the importance of self-maintenance and guided exercise, three parts of treatment and seven parts of maintenance, and only by fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of patients can the disease be relieved faster and maintained for a longer period of time. When there is swelling of the knee joint and the floating patella sign is positive, manipulation is not advisable and can be treated with internal and external medication.  In patients with severe meniscal damage, free bodies in the joint space, severe synovial impaction with inflammatory changes, severe internal and external knee deformity, and severe joint space narrowing, conservative treatment can only relieve the symptoms and cannot fundamentally solve the cause of the disease, so surgical treatment is recommended.  Recent clinical studies have shown that manipulation can reduce the edema under the articular cartilage and can promote the repair of damaged and defective cartilage, which is a boon to patients. This also indicates that daily health care massage and functional exercises are very important for patients.