Скачать или смотреть Ways to avoid Knee Replacement Surgery in Arthritis - Dr. Gururaj S Puranik

So the joint pain if it is due to osteoarthritis, it is treated locally with the help of local ointments local heat therapy, physical therapy, exercises, knee supports. For hip arthritis, hip supports or for wrist arthritis, wrist supports. All these measures are used initially to reduce the joint pain. However once the process starts, it is usually progressive and if the arthritis is so severe that these measures are not helping thee patient in terms of pain relief, or in terms of mobility, then surgery is advised, surgery needs to be postponed as much as possible so that the new knee replacement lasts for life, but it should not be postponed at the cost of quality of life, so if the patient doesn’t need to suffer from pain, or doesn’t need to suffer from limited activities of daily life, or it doesn’t need to restrict enjoying life by postponing the surgery. We normally recommend treating the arthritis with simple measures. First which are less riskier and then going onto surgery if the pain is not controlled by these measures.