Treatment is aimed at prevention of complications, reduction in the activity of arthritis, reducing joint pain and stiffness. Mainly used drug treatments. Used painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs, immunomodulatory. Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis should be comprehensive, that is why patients are often prescribed Spa treatment.
Stay in sanatoriums involves not only medication, but a number of other measures that are beneficial to the healing process. A big role in the fight against arthritis proper diet plays. Visitors of the resorts offers a specially designed diet that excludes fatty meat, milk, citrus, corn, rye and cereal. For local effects on the affected area is recommended physiotherapy: electrophoresis, magnetotherapy, radiation of the joint with ultraviolet light. During periods of remission effective massages and therapeutic exercise. In such methods of treatment is achieved positive dynamics in the recovery process.
Contraindications:
- Severe forms of lesions of bones and joints with copious discharge, severe General phenomena (hectic temperature, a sharp depletion) or amyloidosis of internal organs.
- Polyarthritis with progressive process in the joints, with ankylosis, contractures, etc., when irreversible changes in the joints and loss of ability to self-care. Severe deformation of the joints with periclymenoides the loss of capacity for independent movement.
- Chronic osteomyelitis in the presence of major sequestrum or large metallic foreign body in osteomyelitical lesions (the presence of small metal fragments in the surrounding soft tissue is not a contraindication to Spa treatment). Septic forms of rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis with systemic lesions (viscerotomy).
- General contra-indications excluding a direction of patients to the resorts and in local motels.
Treatment Results
Treatment in Staraya Russa allows you to get rid of inflammation. The immune system begins to function properly, which excludes the possibility of frequent recurrences.
The consequences of not treating
Despite the fact that the disease is localized to one part of the body, complications can occur anywhere. The consequences of rheumatoid arthritis is the damage to the eyes, skin, nerve, heart and blood-vascular systems, as well as, disturbances in respiration, and the defeat of other parts of musculoskeletal system.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of connective tissue that affects mainly the small joints (most often the joints of the bones, and feet). Rheumatoid arthritis caused due to disorders in the immune system, which can be caused by genetic predisposition, infection, hypothermia, stress, pregnancy.
