Treatment of elbow arthritis

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Treatment of the elbow joint with folk remedies

The main load falls on the elbow joint and if it is affected by any disease or injured, we become limited in performing the simplest actions. And don’t think that joint pain is the lot of athletes or gardeners; it can happen to anyone. If you feel pain in your elbow joint, consult a doctor and find out the cause so that treatment can begin as soon as possible.

Causes of pain

The most common causes of elbow pain: osteochondrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, tumors, osteoarthritis, epicondylitis, chondrocalcinosis, tendinitis, elbow joint injuries, excessive stress.

Treatment with folk remedies

Epicondylitis

A common disease among athletes, construction workers and agricultural workers. The joint becomes inflamed where the bone attaches to the muscle. There are no characteristic symptoms, so diagnosing this disease is very difficult.

• A good remedy to relieve inflammation is tea ice. To prepare it, brew a spoonful of green tea with a glass of boiling water. Once cool, pour the tea into two bags, seal and place in the freezer to form ice sheets. After complete freezing, remove the ice from the bags and apply it to the elbow joint, securing it with a bandage. After a few days, the inflammation will subside. Then you should begin a course of warming up.
• A seven-day course of clay heating should begin after ice compresses. Make a paste of blue clay and warm water. Place the mixture on a compress cloth and apply it to the joint, securing it with a warm bandage for half an hour. After half an hour, apply a new warm clay compress. Three procedures must be done per day.

Bay oil

• Prepare bay oil for compresses in advance. You need to take 200 ml of olive or sunflower oil, add four tablespoons of chopped bay leaf into it and leave for a week. After straining, the oil is ready for use. Before use, warm up and apply compresses for 25 minutes.

Arthrosis

With this disease, the joint begins to crunch and there is a restriction in its mobility. If left untreated, deformation of joints and bones may begin.

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• Chalk and fermented milk products will relieve pain and reduce swelling. Buy school chalk, crush it into powder and mix with some fermented milk drink until it becomes a paste. Coat your elbow with the resulting medicinal product, apply a waterproof material and secure with a bandage. Leave it on all night.
• Oatmeal compress. Cook thick oatmeal in water, without salt. After it has cooled, apply it to the sore joint and leave until the morning.
• A compress with cabbage juice will relieve pain. Squeeze the juice out of fresh cabbage, soak a woolen cloth in it and wrap it around your elbow joint. Secure and leave overnight. You can make cabbage compresses during the day if you are not doing active physical work.
• A good pain reliever is honey. It must be mixed with apple cider vinegar or alcohol in equal proportions. After a few hours you can use it for rubbing. Twenty sessions help relieve pain by increasing vascular circulation.
• Another recipe for rubbing the elbow joint. Prepare: a spoonful of hyssop, cypress, pine needles, eucalyptus, two spoons of chamomile. Grind, mix and fill with high-quality vegetable oil. After a day, you can begin a therapeutic course of rubbing. The joint should be rubbed twice a day.

Arthritis

A fairly common disease of the elbow joint. Manifested by swelling and redness. It happens: rheumatoid, reactive, infectious, gouty.

Arthritis Remedies

• Beat three egg whites, add one hundred ml of camphor alcohol and one hundred grams of mustard powder. Whisk again. Lubricate the elbow joint with the product. Cover it with film and secure it with a warm bandage, and leave it overnight. Wash off in the morning.
• To prepare the following remedy, prepare a five-liter, preferably glass, container. Pour into it a handful of crushed elecampane roots and one hundred grams of yeast. Add half a kilogram of honey and add boiled warm water. Stir well, close, wrap in a blanket and place in a warm place for 14 days. Take fifty grams of tincture three times a day. Store in a cool place.
• Make a vodka infusion from horse sorrel. Infuse fifty grams of crushed roots in a liter of vodka for two weeks. Take one spoon in the morning and before bed.
• Take the whole dandelion plant (without the flower) and chop it finely. Brew one spoon of dandelion in a glass of boiling water. After an hour, strain. Drink during the day before meals, divided into four parts.
• A simple but effective remedy is obtained from primrose. Infuse ten grams of dry primrose in a glass of boiling water for half an hour. Divide into three servings and drink throughout the day.
• Radish juice rub. Squeeze one and a half glasses of juice from the radish, add a glass of honey, half a glass of vodka and a spoonful of salt. Stir until the salt is completely dissolved and use to rub joints.
• Simple wraps with fresh leaves of coltsfoot or burdock give a good healing effect.
• Prepare a herbal decoction for taking a medicinal bath. Boil 250 grams of calamus in three liters of water. Pour the broth into a bath with comfortable water temperature and immerse yourself in it for twenty minutes.
• For local baths, use spruce decoction. Brew spruce branches in a small amount of boiling water. After the infusion has cooled to body temperature, immerse the sore joint in it for 20-30 minutes.

Deforming osteoarthritis

Remedies for deforming osteoarthritis

This disease affects the cartilage tissue of the joint. It is deforming osteoarthritis that is considered the most common among joint diseases and often leads to disability.

• Take equal amounts of nettle, calendula, willow bark and birch leaf. Pour two spoons of the mixture into a liter of boiling water for 12 hours. Strain and drink half a glass up to five times a day.
• Grind dry lingonberry leaves to a powder. Pour one spoon of the resulting lingonberry powder into half a liter of boiling water and leave for half an hour. Take half a glass three times a day. Acts on the deposition of salts in joints.
• Peel seven potatoes and boil them. Crush the potatoes into a puree, pour in 20 ml of broth, 30 ml of camphor oil, 25 ml of formic alcohol, two tablespoons of vegetable oil and two tablespoons of honey. Mix thoroughly, spread in an even layer on a compress cloth and apply to the joint. Secure with waterproof material and a warm bandage. Leave until morning. Course - 15 compresses.
• Take dry St. John's wort and hops in equal quantities. Grind and mix with Vaseline. Use to rub into the affected elbow joint.
• There is no simpler remedy than the next one. Applications of rice soaked for two days will not only relieve pain, but will also literally drain the salt from the patient.
• Stir two tablespoons of honey in a glass of milk, add fifteen drops of valerian. Every other day, rub into the elbow joint in the morning and before bed. After the procedure, warm your elbow.
• Every day for a month, lubricate the sore joint with the following remedy. Add a spoonful of salt to a glass of milk and bring to a boil. Every evening, after taking a shower, moisten your elbow with salted milk.
• Prepare an ointment based on wormwood. Dry wormwood should be thoroughly ground with a small amount of sunflower oil, glycerin and petroleum jelly added, ground again and heated in a steam bath. After two days the ointment is ready. Rub into the joint twice a day.

Bursitis

This is an inflammation of the joint capsule, in which the formation and accumulation of inflammatory fluid occurs in it. The cause may be injury or systematic mechanical irritation of the joint. With the disease, a rise in body temperature, malaise, swelling and redness of the joint is possible.

Compresses for pain relief

• To relieve mild pain, you need to make warm compresses with a decoction of St. John's wort, yarrow, chamomile or burdock root. It is recommended to take them internally, half a glass three times a day.
• If the bursitis is chronic, a compress will help, apply it in the evening and leave it until the morning. Tune the laundry soap, take about a spoonful of shavings and mix with the same amount of honey and place in a steam bath until the soap is completely dissolved. Meanwhile, peel and finely chop one onion. Spread the soap-honey mixture over a compress cloth, place the onion on it and wrap the joint. On top there is a waterproof material and an insulating bandage.
• If you need to quickly relieve pain, grate a potato and apply it as a compress to the elbow joint. Hold it until the pain subsides.
• Pleasant to taste and healthy drink. Dissolve a spoonful of honey in a glass of warm water, add a spoonful of apple cider vinegar. Drink this drink twice a day for three weeks.

Universal recipes

• The joint can be massaged with honey without additives. Just take honey and rub it into your elbow for fifteen minutes until it is absorbed. After the honey massage, tie a burdock leaf and apply an insulating bandage. Leave until morning. Ten evenings of honey massage relieve swelling and restore mobility.

Baths for the elbow joint

• Sea salt baths are also useful for pain in the elbow joint. Dissolve three tablespoons of salt in a liter of warm water, dip your elbow in the solution and hold for half an hour. If you don’t have sea salt, you can use coarse sea salt for the bath. After the bath, apply a warm bandage.
• Celandine juice will relieve inflammation and pain. Soak cotton pads in the juice of the plant and apply to the joint for half an hour. After removing the lotion, lubricate with unrefined vegetable oil.
• Compresses made from white or red clay reduce swelling and relieve inflammation. Apply clay diluted with water to the consistency of sour cream to the joint for two hours. Wrap in plastic and warm cloth.
• A very old but effective remedy. Pick young birch leaves. Pour boiling water over them for five minutes. Then place the leaves on the joint and secure for half an hour. Carry out this treatment for ten days in a row and the disease will recede.
• Another summer treatment. Pick a few buttercups, the whole plant, but without the root, as it is very poisonous. Pour a glass of boiling water and leave until cool. Pour warm water into a container for a local bath, pour in the buttercup infusion and immerse your elbow in it for twenty minutes.
• You can make night compresses with buttercup infusion.

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Content

The elbow is a complex joint between the three bones of the shoulder and forearm, a fragment of the human arm. Its anatomical structure also provides for the presence of a nerve, which is located as close as possible to the skin. Pain in the elbow of the right or left hand is always unpleasant.

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They need to be treated, but first you need to deal with the reasons, the main ones of which are:

• disorders of bone and joint structure;
• inflammation of muscles and ligaments;
• diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous system.

Features of treatment

Therapy for inflammatory disease includes the following areas:

• drug treatment;
• physiotherapy;
• massage;
• exercise therapy;
• kinesitherapy;
• surgical intervention.

When treating arthritis of the elbow joint, doctors prescribe NSAIDs to relieve pain and inflammation. They can take the form of tablets, injections or external ointments, gels. Steroid hormones are also prescribed to stop the inflammatory process.

After acute symptoms are relieved, physiotherapy can be used. It includes magnetic therapy, phonophoresis, paraffin therapy, ozokerite treatment, etc.

Massage and exercise therapy are indicated to improve trophism and blood supply to the elbow; they help restore atrophied muscles and strengthen the ligamentous apparatus.

Types of diseases that cause elbow pain

The most common injuries to the bone and joint structure are as follows:

1. Bruises are closed injuries without compromising the integrity of the joint. Mild bruises go away within a few hours or days, severe bruises are accompanied by an increase in the volume of the damaged organ and aching pain.
2. A tumor is a complication that often occurs with bruises. May be benign or malignant. Often associated with pathologies of bone and joint tissue.
3. Arthritis is an inflammation of the joint, which can be a side effect of a number of other ailments. Accompanied by pain during physical activity.
4. Arthrosis is a disorder of the structure of cartilage, leading to its thinning. For the elbow joint, this disorder is extremely rare.
5. Gout is a type of arthritis that occurs due to the accumulation of uric acid salts in the joints. Occurs in diseases associated with metabolism.

Muscle inflammations include:

1. Bursitis is a lesion of the joint capsule. It occurs due to excess accumulation of fluid in it.
2. Fasciitis is inflammation of muscle tissue cells. Accompanied by nagging pain.
3. Epicondylitis is a disease affecting the attachment of muscle fibers. Develops from microtraumas received under excessive loads.
4. Tendinitis – Damage to tendons where they attach to joints. The disease is common among athletes due to excessive stress.
5. Osteochondrosis is the destruction of ligaments, tendons, cartilage or bone tissue. One of the painful and dangerous diseases. It is difficult to treat.

Cardiovascular and nervous diseases that manifest themselves in the elbow joint:

1. Inflammation of the ulnar nerve occurs due to pinching. May cause pain even at rest.
2. Cardiac ischemia is an insufficient blood supply, leading to organ necrosis. In this case, the vessels and circulatory system need to be treated.
3. Hemophilia is a blood clotting problem. On the elbow joints it is reflected in periodic hemorrhages.

Factors in the development of elbow arthritis

The disease is an inflammatory process affecting the joint cavity and cartilage tissue, and at the initial stage is not accompanied by gross structural changes. Among the reasons are:

• heredity;
• systemic pathologies of connective tissue (rheumatism, lupus erythematosus);
• sepsis;
• infections of the respiratory system, genitourinary system, gastrointestinal tract, leading to reactive arthritis;
• injuries (dislocations, subluxations, tendon ruptures);
• metabolic disorders (gout, diabetes);
• toxic goiter;
• tuberculosis, syphilis;
• tumors;
• excessive physical activity;
• psoriasis;
• gout

Diagnosis of elbow pain

You can find out the reason why problems arise in the elbow of your right or left hand with your local therapist. Having the patient’s medical record in hand, he can quickly diagnose the problem and prescribe treatment. Sometimes, in more complex cases, a conclusion from a more specialized specialist - a neurologist, cardiologist or surgeon - is necessary.

Again, a local doctor can write a referral to them. But if the problem is not obvious, additional research will be needed. Some of them can be carried out at a local medical facility, while others can only be carried out in hospitals or medical centers for an additional fee.

When to see a doctor

The elbow of the right hand hurts (it can be treated without going to the doctor) - with a slight bruise, it is enough to immobilize the hand and apply a cooling compress to the site of injury so that the condition will soon return to normal.

But in some cases, consultation with a specialist is necessary:

• if the pain does not subside despite immobilization and compress;
• if swelling and redness appear on the elbow with any movement;
• if pain in the elbow is accompanied by an increase in general body temperature;
• if the shape of the joint has changed, the bone protrudes;
• if your arm hurts and it is impossible to bend or straighten it.

Therapy for a bruised elbow

In case of severe injury, you should consult a doctor as soon as possible. A bruised elbow can be extremely dangerous, as there is a nerve joint in this area. Therapy for a bruised elbow is as follows:

• drug treatment;
• immobilization of the injured elbow with a bandage;
• physiotherapy;
• physical therapy and massage;
• surgical intervention.

The nature of the resulting injuries and complications determine the choice of optimal therapeutic tactics.

Preventing Elbow Pain

You can prevent elbow pain by avoiding muscle strain. To do this, it is worth taking breaks from time to time in work where the elbow joint is constantly involved. It is better to choose the right position and use convenient equipment.

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When moving your arms monotonously, it is useful to periodically bend and unbend them, as well as do self-massage. When reading books or talking on the phone, you should not constantly lean on your elbows.

Kinesitherapy for the treatment of arthritis of the elbow joint

In our center we use kinesitherapy. This healing method is based on the principle of natural therapy: everything that is needed to heal the body is hidden within it. The task of a kinesitherapist is to awaken the body’s internal recovery mechanisms by performing a special set of exercises, during which specially designed simulators are used.

During the first appointment, the doctor listens carefully to the patient and examines the diseased limb. This is followed by myofascial topographic diagnostics and testing on special multifunctional simulators. The program developed based on the results of the examination allows you to improve the condition of the joint and surrounding tissues, normalize its mobility and relieve unpleasant symptoms.

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Methods for treating elbow pain

The elbow of the right hand hurts (it must be treated immediately) - in case of a serious injury, the doctor suggests orthopedic devices to immobilize the damaged joint:

• fixing bandage;
• bandage;
• gypsum;
• splint;
• orthosis

The specialist can also recommend medications suitable for each specific case.

Medications

They are the mainstays in treating elbow problems. The most commonly prescribed drugs are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Their action is quite fast, but superficial. Non-steroids fight inflammation and eliminate pain, but not the cause itself. They are designed to eliminate pain in order to alleviate the patient's suffering.

There are currently dozens of NSAIDs available in various forms.

The most common of them:

Ibuprofen will help relieve pain in the elbow of the right hand.
These medications should not be used constantly. They are sold without a prescription, but have many side effects.

Another group of drugs prescribed for elbow pain are chondroprotectors. Their functions are the healing of cartilage tissue, while relieving pain, and leveling the process of dystrophy. The basis of such drugs are 2 components – chondroitin and glucosamine. They are a natural building material of cartilage tissue.

Treatment with these drugs takes a long time - over 3 months. First they are prescribed in injections, and then in tablets. To maintain maximum effect, the course of treatment is repeated annually.

The most popular chondroprotectors:

For severe pain, injections may be prescribed directly into the joint. Such injections provide quick relief. But doctors do not recommend using this treatment constantly - along with the injection, an infection can be introduced into the joint.

For intra-articular injections use:

• chondroprotectors;
• hyaluronic acid;
• corticosteroid hormones

The last group of drugs has an almost immediate effect on the sore joint, effectively copes with inflammation, but has many contraindications. However, they are extremely popular with patients.

Most often used:

Injections are prescribed 1 every 2 weeks. A full course includes 3-5 injections. Corticosteroids do not affect the disease itself, so they cannot provide complete treatment.

My right elbow hurts (can also be treated with hyaluronic acid) as a result of injuries or joint diseases. The drug is injected into the joint when there is a lack of fluid in it. As a result, nutrition improves and restoration of cartilage tissue accelerates.

Today, the following medications with hyaluronic acid are used: