Osteochondrosis, back pain

Osteochondrosis is a chronic disease that affects the intervertebral discs and cartilage tissue. The disease is widespread and mainly affects people over forty years of age, although the first symptoms can appear as early as the age of twenty or thirty. In most cases, back pain is caused by osteochondrosis.​

The human spine consists of several dozen vertebrae. To prevent the sensitive vertebrae from rubbing against each other, there are so-called intervertebral discs between each pair, which perform a shock-absorbing function. In osteochondrosis, blood circulation in the spine is disrupted, which leads to metabolic disorders, and these processes affect the intervertebral discs. read more..

Osteoarthritis of the knee joint

Osteoarthritis of the knee joint (gonarthrosis) is a chronic disease in which there is a progressive destruction of the cartilage tissue of the knee joint and a violation of its function.

It occurs more often in the elderly (primary gonarthrosis), but can occur at any age (secondary gonarthrosis). Secondary gonarthrosis develops, as a rule, as a result of trauma, various metabolic disorders, some endocrine or infectious diseases.

Depending on the severity of the clinical manifestations, three stages of gonarthrosis are distinguished: the first, in which pain in the joint occurs periodically after loads,  read more…

Osteoarthritis of the hip joint

Coxarthrosis or osteoarthritis of the hip joint is a disease that belongs to degenerative-dystrophic diseases. Coxarthrosis mainly affects middle-aged and elderly people. The disease develops gradually, over several years. Coxarthrosis is often accompanied by pain and restriction of movement in the joint, and already in the late stages, atrophy of the thigh muscles and shortening of the limb are observed. The causes of coxarthrosis can be various factors, including injuries, congenital pathology, pathological curvatures of the spinal column (kyphosis, scoliosis), as well as inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases. In case of destruction of the joint, especially in young and middle-aged patients, surgery is indicated read more…

Osteoarthritis of the small joints of the hand

Osteoarthritis of small joints (fingers and toes) is a degenerative-dystrophic disease. This pathology of interphalangeal joints is less common than osteochondrosis or gonarthrosis. In the vast majority of cases, it affects women in the postmenopausal period. The progression of the disease often causes pain in the hands and impaired motor function of the fingers, which can lead to disability - loss of ability to work and self-care. Arthritis of small joints of the hands develops in case of impaired blood circulation and nutrition of the cartilage layer of the intra-articular surfaces of the bones. As a result, the cartilage thins and read more…