What should I do if I have osteoarthritis of the knee?

Knee osteoarthritis, referred to as knee osteoarthritis, belongs to a kind of osteoarthritis, also known as knee proliferative arthritis, hypertrophic arthritis, knee degeneration, etc., is a common and frequent clinical disease. According to statistics, the current prevalence of osteoarthritis of the knee is 4.7% for men and 54.6% for women, and the ultimate disability rate is 53%, and its incidence is increasing year by year. It causes knee pain and dysfunction, which seriously affects the quality of life of patients and greatly increases their economic burden. As the world’s aging population is increasing, this disease is not only a medical problem, but also a social problem that is attracting increasing attention. Osteoarthritis of the knee is a chronic, progressive osteoarthritis, caused by aging or other causes such as trauma, congenital abnormalities of the joint, joint deformity, etc. It is characterized by progressive degeneration and destruction of articular cartilage, articular cartilage repair, subchondral bone remodeling and sclerosis, bone redundancy formation and a series of biochemical and morphological changes in the synovial membrane and joint cavity, eventually leading to joint swelling and pain, restricted movement, joint The pain often worsens in the cold winter season or when it is cloudy and rainy, and is less pronounced or lighter in the hot summer. Osteoarthritis of the knee joint belongs to the category of “paralysis”, “bone paralysis” and “knee paralysis” in Chinese medicine, which was recognized as early as in “Nei Jing”. -It is known as early as in the Nei Jing, Su Wen (Su Wen), “The Long Thorn in the Bone”: “The disease is in the bone, the bone is heavy and cannot be lifted, the bone marrow is sore, and the cold energy arrives, the name is bone paralysis.” The “Jing Yue Quan Shu” cloud: “Cover paralysis is also closed, to qi and blood for the evil closed, not get through and disease.” The “Zhang’s Medical General” cloud: “Knee for the tendons of the House, knee pain there is not due to liver and kidney deficiency, deficiency is the wind, cold and moisture attack.” Therefore, the main understanding of the disease mechanism in Chinese medicine is that liver and kidney deficiency, tendons and bones are not nourished, which leads to wind, cold and dampness, resulting in Qi and blood stagnation, meridian paralysis and obstruction, which leads to pain, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, and limited function. For the treatment of knee osteoarthritis, the treatment of injury emphasizes the overall concept of prevention, health care, rehabilitation and treatment integration and the perspective of prevention and health care for life, and the treatment focuses on the combination of internal and external, up and down, left and right balance of the three elements of bone injury treatment, according to the specific situation of the patient’s identification and treatment, the use of Shi’s injury department of hemp, gui and warming the meridian soup, burdock soup, tuning in the preservation of yuan soup and a series of famous formula plus reduction of internal treatment at the same time using In addition, Shi’s treatment is combined with Shi’s manipulation to achieve the effect of regulating Qi and Blood, unblocking the meridians and loosening the adhesions. In addition, Shih also emphasizes self-exercise and instructs patients to perform Shih’s Guiding Technique to prevent and treat osteoarthritis of the knee.