5 Tips to Avoid Joint Replacement Surgery

Maintain the proper weight. The extra body weight leads to excessive stress on the joints and can cause the cartilage to break down more quickly. Therefore, emphasizing the importance of maintaining a healthy weight can help patients avoid surgery. Encouraging patients to lose just 5 percent of their body weight can relieve excess joint pressure. While losing weight will not replace cartilage; It will help reduce stress on your joints.

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Get regular exercise. Remind patients that limiting physical activity can make joint damage worse. Inactivity leads to cartilage loss between the bones and can lead to bone-to-bone contact, which is extremely painful. Exercise helps stimulate the release of synovial fluid and provides the cartilage with nutrients to lubricate and loosen the joint. Suggesting aerobic exercise and low-impact activities like the elliptical, recumbent bike, walking, and swimming at least 3 times a week will help patients achieve optimal joint health.

Joint injections. Cortisone or hyaluronic acid injections are non-surgical treatment options that can help reduce knee pain. Knee pain can also be treated with regenerative medicine treatments, such as platelet-rich plasma therapy that can help patients produce more cartilage. Cortisone injections are also effective treatment plans for hip pain. These injections are best done with fluoroscopy.

A knee relief brace. A relief brace relieves the painful side of the knee and shifts stresses to the side with minimal arthritis. These braces can be used very effectively in treating patients with knee osteoarthritis. Unloading devices help reduce pain and therefore increase mobility. I often prescribe these braces to patients who want to consider an effective non-surgical solution for treating osteoarthritis of the knee.

Medications and supplements. The use of supplements such as glucosamine and chondroitin can have beneficial effects on osteoarthritis. Opioid pain relievers may be given for severe pain if there is no response to other treatments. These non-surgical options depend on the patient's level of commitment to behavioral modifications through weight loss and exercise.

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