Stop! This Common Knee Fix Could Be Harming You

Описание: Every year, some 600,000 people get total knee replacements in the US. A very large chunk of these would never have to happen if we had a different approach to knee pain.

All too often, steroid injections and anti-inflammatories are the first approaches to helping people with knee pain.

These two may be the absolute worst options for those who have or want to avoid knee arthritis because there is ample evidence that these approaches actually speed up the joint degeneration that is causing the problem in the first place.

Just in case you think I'm making this up (because after all, how can multiple millions of knee steroid injections per year in the US alone be done if they are harmful??), this interesting study looked at MRIs done the day of and 2 years later after both gel injections and steroid injections of the knee.

210 participants, average age just over 64, had their MRIs graded for a Whole-Organ MRI Score (WORMS) system for cartilage, bone marrow lesions, and meniscus. These scores were compared to MRIs done 2 years later. The result weren't good.

Two years later, the participants that got the steroid injections had faster degeneration then the placebo group. The gel injection group progressed slower than expected.

The changes weren't that dramatic, but this is a SINGLE injection. What happens when you've had 2 or 3 or 5?

Want to do 7 things that can help your knees that doesn't make them wose?

1) MOVE. Nothing is more important than moving for your knees.
2) Soft tissue manipulation (STM)...find a chiropractor, massage therapist, physical therapist or an athletic trainer that REALLY understands how to treat the soft tissues around the knee. This is an essential part of any plan.
3) Exercise (yeah...I already said it, but it's THAT important)
4) Platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) can be an important part of the plan
5) Hyaluronic acid injections ("gel" injections)
6) Stem cells

Find out more detail in the video.

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/rad...