Articulated knee joint: treatment, removal

The articular mouse is a pathology that represents a bone or cartilaginous body. It is a kind of splinter that floats freely in the knee or elbow cavity and causes pain. Often the mouse sticks between other joints, which causes even greater discomfort. Due to the nature of its education and behavior, the pathology was named after a fast and moving rodent.

The mouse can be of different sizes: from a tiny rice grain to huge shapeless debris. Most often the disease affects the knee joint. But sometimes there are cases of ulnar, hip and shoulder injuries. Whatever the localization of pathology, it in any case requires competent and timely treatment.

Mechanism of formation

Most commonly, the articular mouse is formed as a result of the resulting injury - a severe bruise. During the impact from the cartilaginous or bone tissue, a piece is cut off, which fidgets freely in the joint cavity and causes pain. In addition to this cause, pathology can become a consequence of the following ailments: osteochondritis, deforming arthrosis, arthritis, Koenig disease and hemarthrosis.

As a result of these diseases in the joint cavity, particle rejection occurs. They form the so-called capsule, which is in constant motion. This formation is a small bunch of high-molecular non-globular protein - fibrin. Later on, it forms a connective tissue, forming a fragment resembling a piece of bone.

Symptoms

The articular mouse has a symptomatology that will help to distinguish pathology from other diseases. The main signs of ailment are:

1. Severe pain in the knee, accompanied by partial immobilization. This happens when the splinter has blocked the entire joint. Pain sensations have a non-permanent character. They appear when a person changes his position.
2. Edema and inflammation of the knee (elbow). This leads to a permanent blocking of the joint. The most unpleasant consequences are damage to the cartilaginous tissue and complete immobilization of the limb.
3. Discomfort in the joint. Many people write off unpleasant feelings for a bruise or injury, although they can be the first signal of the beginning of the process of education of the split.

The articulated mouse of the knee joint may not manifest itself. Characteristic symptoms of pathology are absent if the fragment is hidden in the area of the curvature of the synovial membrane.

Diagnostics

If a person complains of a sudden pain in the knee or elbow, he needs first aid. For this, the area of possible damage is densely tightened by an elastic bandage. You can put on a patient and a special knee. After you can call an ambulance, which will take the patient to the clinic. Here, experienced doctors will be able to establish the correct diagnosis: a bruise, injury, stretching or joint knee articulation.

X-ray will confirm the fears of physicians. With the help of medical technology, a specialist will be able to consider what sizes the mouse has, where it is located, and so on. In addition, the patient will be held a CT scan. With her help, the doctor learns about the state of cartilage, meniscus, bone tissue. The patient also needs to take blood tests: general and biochemical. Sometimes he is recommended to go through different immunological studies.

Operation

The removal of the articular mouse is most likely to be shown to the patient. Unfortunately, this pathology does not lend itself to conservative treatment. The volume of surgical intervention is influenced primarily by such factors: the degree of neglect of the disease, its shape, the size of education and so on. The duration of the operation is determined individually. But if the articulate mouse results in the partial or complete immobilization of the limb, then the intervention will be assigned as soon as possible.

The operation, during which the formation is removed, is called arthrotomy. First, the doctor opens the joint cavity, then removes the mouse and performs bone and cartilage plastic surgery . This will help in the future avoid deforming the joint. After that, the leg is immobilized - fix it, thereby providing a stationary limb state.

Treatment after surgery

After the articular mouse has been removed, the patient needs restorative therapy:

• To improve the circulation of blood in a damaged place, you write out "Andekalin", "Angiotrophin", "Kallikrein Depot".
• If there is an inflammatory process, designate "Gordoks" or "Kontrikal".
• It is recommended to drink medicines that feed the tissues in the joint region: "Solcoseryl", "Actovegin", vitamins of group B.
• The patient also needs medicines to help restore the remainder of the articular cartilage. This, for example, "Glycosamine" or "Chondroitin sulfate".
• Be sure to write out a new, but already had time to positively recommend the drug "Piascladin". It is expensive, but it very effectively protects cartilage from further destruction.
• It is necessary to undergo a course of hyaluronic acid injections. It plays the role of natural joint lubrication, therefore it significantly reduces painful friction.

Димексидом » или « Бишофитом » . You can not do without warming medicines, which increase the flow of blood to the operated place - compresses with " Dimexid " or " Bishofit " .

Minimally invasive surgery

Minimally invasive methods also remove the articular mouse. Treatment can be performed promptly using arthroscopy. This method is less traumatic than conventional surgery. The doctor with the help of a special device - an arthroscope - makes two holes in the knee. In one introduces the optical technique, considering with its help the internal state of the pathology. This picture is broadcast on the screen. In the second hole, the doctor introduces a tool for manipulation. Thus, the patient's lesions are minimal. Within a week, you can begin rehabilitation.

Physiotherapy methods of treatment

After surgical intervention, the patient is obliged to undergo a series of procedures, so that the articular mouse of the knee joint no longer manifests itself. Treatment with the help of physiotherapy methods implies the following manipulations:

1. Massage the joint.
2. Ultrasound treatment.
3. Gryazetapia.
4. Acceptance of the van: radon and turpentine.
5. The effect of dynamic current.
6. Electrophoresis of sulfur, lithium and zinc to restore metabolic processes in the joint.
7. Galvanization with enzymes that remove "bad" tissue.
8. Phonophoresis with analgesics for the removal of inflammation.

Similar procedures can be taken in a polyclinic or hospital, where there is adequate equipment and highly qualified personnel.

What do folk doctors offer?

Once again we will remind: only through operative intervention the articulated mouse of a knee joint is eliminated . Treatment with folk remedies can only be offered as an auxiliary element or for postoperative recovery, but not as an alternative therapy. In this case, you can make compresses using the following recipes:

• A tablespoon of honey mixed with 3 tbsp. L. Apple cider vinegar. Lubricate the mixture with the affected joint, and then apply a leaf of fresh cabbage to it. We wrap the leg with polyethylene and a warm scarf. Keep it until the leaf dries. Course - 1 month.
• Take one tablespoon of red and blue clay. Mix the powder with water so that a mass is formed, the consistency of which is similar to sour cream. On a clean cotton cloth lay out the clay in two layers, apply to the joint. We warm this zone and stand for two hours.

It helps to relieve pain and a special bath. To make it, you need to take one and a half kilograms of Jerusalem artichoke leaves. Their finely shred and pour 8 liters of boiling water. When the water cools down and becomes acceptable for the procedure, we lower the leg into it so that the affected area is completely immersed in a decoction. We endure half an hour. This bath is recommended to be done once a day for 10 days. Thanks to these folk methods, recovery from surgery will be faster, and rehabilitation itself will be painless and effective.