Joint injury prevention arthritis how

Xinhua net

    Xinhua net London September 2 (xinhua 黄堃) joint injury is life often appears the situation. In many cases, if treatment, the injured area may be wrong with gradually developing arthritis. A new study says, if in the joint injury after use sugar corticoid treatment, help prevent appear arthritis.

    Usually there is a layer of joint cartilage, its contain protein polysaccharide. Joint injury, cartilage also damaged after, these protein polysaccharide will begin to decompose; And let the situation worse, the body's immune system to control the pathogen will release some wounds, they will make cartilage material the proteoglycan hard to restore to the normal level. This long-term development on May cause arthritis.

    New issue the British "arthritis research and therapy" magazine published research report said, the Massachusetts institute of technology researchers found that institutions such as if in the joints used after injury sugar cortical hormone drugs treatment, such as the use of the existing drugs, dexamethasone now may help protein contents of polysaccharide returned to normal, made to recover the wound, and to prevent from arthritis.

    The research of Alan case of rajin, said professor tversky now sometimes injecting glucocorticoids way to help the patients had arthritis pain relief, and this research shows that the drugs also can be used to prevent arthritis, joint injury in short-term treatment for as long as it can act as a preventive effect. (out)