Painful exfoliative osteochondritis

  The name of the disease tells us that it is a terrible condition. Other injuries in the joint, such as anterior cruciate ligament injury, can be replaced after surgical treatment, and the clinical results are still good, but if there is this disease is very troublesome, because the cartilage tissue can no longer, once the injury is no exact treatment; as the name suggests, exfoliative osteochondritis is the articular cartilage and the bone beneath it The cause is not very clear.  1, the main performance Most of the 16-25-year-old adolescent male, the nature of the pain is dull pain, that is, is not the kind of sharp pain, the pain will increase when more activities, rest pain relief, most people will think it is “rheumatism” and so on, in serious cases there will be a sense of joint swelling, if the cartilage tissue stuck in the joint can be peeled off X-rays can show bone defects.  2.Treatment In the early stage of the lesion, if the problem can be recognized, conservative treatment can be carried out, the affected limb is not weight-bearing, avoiding strenuous activities, but at the same time to carry out muscle training, some scholars recommend plaster fixation, but some scholars oppose fixation, but all advocate braking, generally braking for more than 6 weeks.  For more severe exfoliative osteochondritis, if a free body has formed affecting the joint function, surgical treatment is needed to take out the exfoliated cartilage tissue under arthroscopy. The treatment of defective areas is currently a hot spot in joint surgery research, and once it is said to be a hot spot, it means that it has not been completely solved, and there are many clinical treatment methods, such as cartilage grafting, osteochondral inlay, mosaic, etc. However, there is no comprehensive evaluation and long-term clinical observation of these treatments, and the cost of treatment is very expensive, so it will take some time.