Hi My mom is 60 and she is having knee pain since 3 or 4 years.So what option of treatment ? is the surgery is only easy and permanent cure ?
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Dear, According to Ayurveda joint pain is known as Sandhigata vata. With increase in age vata dosha is predominant in human body that is why with aging disease caused by vata dosha increases in body. Joint pain is a common symptom with many possible causes. Joint Pain and Arthritis are the one of the most devastating conditions faced by individuals, particularly elderly women today. When there is pure Vata dosha involvement (a pain without swelling or discoloration) then the massage with medicated ayurvedic oil is quite useful & supplement is helpful in balancing bodily humors ?vata, which is responsible dosha for Sandhigata vata . Visit us:-www.Malhotraayurveda.Com
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It depends on her clinical evaluation, x Ray findings and physical structure of your mother. Sometimes only exercises suffice, in later stages surgery is the key. You need to consult orthopedic surgeon in person.
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Please do the following for your mother: 1. Keep your weight under control. 2. Do morning and evening walks daily. 3. Stretching and strengthening exercises for quads and hamstring muscles. 4. Medicines for 3 weeks : a. Tab Nucoxia 90 mg one tab a day after food b. Tab Pan 40 mg one tab a day before food c. Tab Gabantin 100 mg one tab two times a day after food If pain continues in spite of medicines, consider Total Knee Replacement.
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Has osteoarthritis. The diagnosis needs to confirmed. If in fact she has osteoarthritis then she needs to be assessed for comorbidities and needs to be put on an intensive exercise program with control of pain using safe pain modfiying medications instead of pain killers. This can be done best by a rheumatologist. The final option is surgery. Surgery is done by an orthopedician. Nowadays if surgery is done properly the risk of failure is < 5%. If you let me know where you live I can give you a reference of a nearby rheumatologist. You can contact me via my website www.Rheumatologybangalore.Com You can get more information regarding osteoarthritis from the document below. Http://www.Rheumatology.Org/uploadedFiles/Osteoarthritis(1).Pdf
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