Alleviate pain
There are several ways to relieve the pain of hip arthrosis. Even as a patient, you can do something to make the pain permanently less. This includes, above all, regular, light movement to maintain the mobility of the joint.
However, the hip joint should not be overloaded, which is why the choice of movement type is very important. Swimming and aqua gymnastics are particularly suitable for hip arthrosis, since the water does not put such a high weight on the hip. In addition, if you are overweight, you should try to reduce your weight so that the hip joint is not put under additional strain.
Furthermore, regular therapy measures such as physiotherapy, massages, heat and cold applications can alleviate the pain. If this does not have a sufficient effect, medication must be used to reduce the pain temporarily or even permanently. Orthopedic measures are particularly useful if the hip arthrosis is caused by a malposition. Nutrition plays an important role in relieving the pain of osteoarthritis. Care should be taken to ensure that pork, sugar, alcohol, wheat bread and cream in particular are consumed in moderation, whereas fruit, vegetables, salads, skimmed milk products, wholemeal products, cold-water fish and cold-pressed oils should be included in the diet.A long-term relief of pain can be achieved by a permanent change in diet.
This is where the pain comes from
Along with the knee joint, the hip joint is one of the largest joints in the human body and a healthy hip carries many times its own body weight. Therefore, even under everyday stress, great forces act on the femoral head and the acetabulum in the pelvic bone. Cartilage tissue between these two structures prevents the joint surfaces from rubbing against each other.
In osteoarthritis, the cartilage tissue is destroyed more and more during the course of the disease, and lost cartilage cannot be replaced. For this reason, hip arthrosis is also called a degenerative disease and means “hip joint wear and tear”. Without a layer of cartilage in between, the two bones of the hip joint rub permanently against each other and deform.
The joint surfaces can no longer glide past each other without friction as they would in a healthy joint. As a result, the joint space becomes larger and irregular, bony attachments (so-called osteophytes) form at the joint and the joint surfaces become inflamed. As a result, the hip joint loses its function and the patient suffers from restricted mobility and pain.
