Obesity Why is there low back pain and osteoarthritis?

Obesity occurrence of bone and joint diseases mainly caused by the following three conditions: ① obesity with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy and its occurrence rate is about 12% -43%; ② obesity with diabetes, bone and joint diseases, its occurrence rate is about l % -2%; ③ obesity with gout bone and joint diseases, its incidence is less than 1%.

Obese patients prone to Yaoxisuanruan, travel inconvenience, low back pain, joint pain and osteoarthritis symptoms. Lead to obesity because of these symptoms are manifold.

(1) body weight increase in whole body bone joint system is bound to impose a heavy burden, especially as the main supporting body of bone in the spine and lower limbs of a long-term overload state, the load per unit volume of articular cartilage to withstand pressure than normal to increase the number of bone and bone, bone and joint, bone and joint wear and tear under the force of gravity between the degree of increase, leading to the internal structure of bone and joint hyperplasia, rupture of the changes in these symptoms. For those patients with obesity occur very early on, they are often from a young age, when there are symptoms of bone and joint diseases.

(2) low back pain is another common symptoms of obesity. Apart from the above causes of low back pain induced factors, the weight of abdominal obesity increases the body’s center of gravity forward, causing the pelvis forward, lumbar compensatory forward bending occurs, disc Shouli Bu Jun, so that spinal nerve roots may be stimulation are also important factors.

(3) Obesity is associated with diabetes, bone and joint disease and diabetes caused by neuropathy and trauma are closely related. Bone and joint disease gout is too much high-protein intake with the patient, high-purine food-related ingredients.

(4) the occurrence of bone and joint diseases with the body’s lipid metabolism disorder, atherosclerosis, ischemia osteodystrophy caused by a certain extent.

Although the proliferation of pathological changes in osteoarthritis, even in patients after weight loss is not easy to restore to normal. However, the emergence of these symptoms have a relationship with long-term weight-bearing, so weight loss treatment is still to control the pain caused by bone and joint diseases, the important measures. When the patients with weight loss, the patients with low back pain symptoms will decline as the weight loss gradually improving.

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