The treatments for degenerative knee joint with effusion include sodium vitrate joint cavity injection, joint puncture, arthroscopic surgical treatment and Chinese medicine treatment.
1. Drug treatment: such as sodium vitrate joint cavity injection, can reduce pain, but the joint cavity fluid is difficult to be absorbed.
2. Joint puncture: The common puncture access is the outer upper edge of patella and the junction of lateral femoral muscle. Joint puncture can improve the range of motion of the joint and reduce the symptoms of edema.
3. Surgery: mainly arthroscopic surgery.
4. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment: after the professional Chinese medicine practitioner identifies the symptoms, he/she chooses to take internal medicine and external treatment, the internal medicine is mainly to activate blood circulation, eliminate blood stasis and open the collaterals, expel wind and disperse cold (to expel wind and dispel cold) and benefit the effect of dampness, the external medicine can be powdered and adjusted with vinegar or wine, and then applied to the joints externally with a cloth bag.
When the degenerative knee joints have effusion to the first time to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor standardized treatment.