Calcification
Calcification
What is calcification?
When the joints are moving, the damage to the cartilage tissue and the difficult functioning of the movement function are called “ Calcification “ This event is most visible in the knee region.
What is knee arthritis?
Pain starting with climbing up and down stairs, swelling around the knee over time, hanging and locking problems are accompanied. As a result of all this, the patient is forced to use pain medication every day, which is the disease that affects the social life in the future.
How about knee arthritis?
The knee joint is the largest joint in the human body in terms of width and cartilage surface. Medical tibia is divided into 3 parts as femoral, lateral tibia femoral compartment and patella femoral joint. Knee calcification is actually considered as tibiafemoral and patella femoral calcification. The prolongation of the average life expectancy has started to be seen from 35 years of age due to the spread of obesity and some traumas.
What good is knee arthritis?
Achieving the standard of living by giving weight
Hot spring and hot water treatments
Physical therapy and rehabilitation
Intra-articular cortisone injection
Exercise, hiking and sports
How is Knee Calcification performed?
The operation during the operation, instead of the existing cartilage tissue, the material called the prosthesis is completely made of metal. In this way, it is possible to obtain a joint which is moving, painless and closest to normal.
General information
As with all of our joints, the bones on our knee joint are covered with a tissue called cartilage, which prevents the bones from rubbing against each other during the movement and enables the movement to be performed painlessly. Since the knee joint is a joint that is open to loads coming from many directions, the arthritis disease, which means disruption of the articular cartilage, is seen more frequently in the knee joint than in the other joints.
Knee joint cartilage is severely impaired and knee joint movements are restricted and painful. Even our most simple activity is to walk and become painful and difficult.
In patients in whom the cartilage of the articular cartilage is irreversibly damaged, it may be possible to perform our activities without pain and to move our knee joint by covering the bone surfaces forming the joint.
There are basically two purposes of knee replacement surgery; The first is to provide a painless movement, and the second is to use this procedure as long as possible, if possible for a lifetime.