What are the effects of hot and cold weather on femoral head necrosis?

Femoral head necrosis is a very serious orthopedic disease in clinical practice, which means that the bone is severely damaged and will continue to cause damage. Moreover, this situation also has a certain impact on the hip joint. Therefore, when patients suffer from severe femoral head necrosis, it may even affect their own activities. This requires recognizing the dangers of femoral head necrosis and dealing with it in time.

In the early stage, femoral head necrosis will only cause discomfort symptoms in the patient's joints, usually on one side. If discomfort symptoms occur on both sides, it means that the femoral head necrosis is serious and endangers the surrounding joints. organize. If the patient has symptoms of necrosis of the femoral heads on both sides, it may also lead to joint discomfort on both sides.

From the perspective of pain, there will be cyclical changes, that is, the pain will be worse in winter, and as the temperature gets warmer, the pain will decrease. Clinical data shows that summer is the season with the least pain. The increase in temperature causes joint meridians to stretch and improve mobility.

In addition, spring and summer are rainy, and this humid weather has a negative impact on symptoms. Patients should pay attention to moisture-proofing and keep dry. According to the time, place and people's conditions, appropriate treatment methods and prescriptions can be formulated. Among them, adjusting measures to local conditions is the principle of considering treatment and medication according to the climate characteristics of different seasons. Different climates have different effects on treatment effects.

The pain can be around the hip joint, the inner, front, outer thigh or knee. It starts as dull pain, dull pain, and intermittent pain. The pain worsens especially with more activities. Rest can relieve or reduce it. There are also cases of persistent pain. In the advanced stage, the pain worsens after walking and activities, and the pain becomes severe when moving and stops when it is quiet.

The patient may develop lameness, which is caused by the loss of the femoral head. Causes of lameness include pain and limited function of the hip joint. The characteristic of painful claudication is that the affected limb dares not bear weight and steps on the ground, and the affected foot lifts up immediately as soon as it steps on the ground. That is, the healthy foot touches the ground hard and takes a long time, while the affected foot lands lightly and takes a short time, and the function is limited. In addition to pain and shortening of the affected limb, the main symptoms of claudication are adduction of the affected hip. The affected knee joint moves tightly toward the healthy side, and the two knees even rub against each other.

Femoral head necrosis is a kind of continuous local damage and irritation, which makes it easy to worsen when infection occurs, and it is relatively common to cause infection symptoms. Patients with femoral head necrosis usually cannot walk or sit in bed for a long time, which is easy to cause infection in local tissues. If the infection is deep, it will also cause infection symptoms in the joints.

Femoral head necrosis mainly occurs in the hip joint, which is the main joint that supports the human body for walking and activities. Therefore, when femoral head necrosis is severe, it will also affect the patient's activity function. In the early stages, it will affect the patient's walking posture. If it continues to worsen, it will cause the patient to lose the ability to walk or even become paralyzed.