Articular cartilage plays an important role in the body's joint movement. As people age, the joint fibers will gradually degenerate, and the extension ability of the articular cartilage will also begin to weaken, resulting in a significant reduction in the ability of cartilage to recover severely, and eventually the articular cartilage is easy to suffer from wear and tear.
So how does cartilage wear affect people? Can it be reversed?
Effects of cartilage wear:
1. Cartilage wear can easily cause degenerative arthritis in the human body, and cartilage such as meniscus is also easy to cause meniscus crack due to violent impact or falling, which will eventually seriously affect the normal motor function of patients.
At the same time, because the fibrocartilage between the lumbar vertebrae is prone to relaxation and displacement, cartilage wear may also lead to herniation of the nucleus pulposus, resulting in the formation of lumbar intervertebral disc herniation.
2. Because the articular cartilage of large joints is transparent, the cartilage between the joints can play a protective role in the joints, which is mainly reflected in the cartilage can lubricate and cushion the friction between the joints. As a result, the cartilage between the joints is likely to cause intense pain once it wears out.
Can cartilage wear be reversed?
In fact, when everyone performs any kind of activity, there is a possibility of wear and tear of joint cartilage, but the degree of wear and consumption is different.
The human articular cartilage itself has the ability to repair itself, and the articular cartilage is always in a dynamic equilibrium process of first damage and then repair, and then damage and then repair.
However, when the degree of cartilage wear far exceeds the recovery range of cartilage itself, it is likely that the repair speed of articular cartilage cannot keep up with the speed of wear, or there are some repair obstacles.
Therefore, if you want to treat cartilage wear, you can use the following two methods:
1. Take glucosamine
Glucosamine is a natural amino monosaccharide drug, is an indispensable substance for the synthesis of proteoglycan in cartilage, a moderate amount of glucosamine can promote the secretion of lubricating fluid in the human joint cavity, thereby reducing friction between joints, but also has a certain anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.
In the early stage of cartilage wear, or when the articular cartilage is not damaged, the effect will be very fast, but if the cartilage has already been hardened and worn, uneven, or even has deformed joint diseases, no amount of glucosamine will be able to recover.
2. Injection of sodium hyaluronate injection
The injection of sodium hyaluronate injection is equivalent to injecting lubricating oil into the articular cartilage, which can improve the lubricity and flexibility between the joints, resulting in a great reduction in pain.
However, there are also disadvantages, the injection of sodium hyaluronate injection can not improve the internal structure of the articular cartilage, when the sodium hyaluronate injection is consumed, it is necessary to continue the injection, so that repeated times will easily lead to excessive dependence on the patient on sodium hyaluronate injection, and may also weaken the body's own ability to secrete synovial fluid, and the effect will be worse day by day.
To sum up, when the degree of cartilage wear is not severe, as long as the above two methods are used, it is really not difficult to restore cartilage wear.
On the contrary, if the cartilage wear is very serious, the effect of taking and injecting the drug will not be too good, so everyone must treat it in time when cartilage wear occurs, so as not to increase the difficulty of treatment due to the aggravation of the disease.