Guangzhou has officially entered the autumn! With the gradual decrease of temperature, there are significantly more arthritis patients in orthopedics and rehabilitation departments of major hospitals. Doctors remind that the decline of temperature is a major inducement for the onset of arthritis. There are people with joint discomfort at ordinary times. In cold days, we should pay more attention to the cold prevention and warmth of joints to avoid recurrence of pain or aggravation of symptoms. It's cold and the temperature difference is big. How's your joint? Li Zhao, director of the joint center of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of traditional Chinese medicine, introduced that the place in the human body to connect bones and ensure activity function is the joint. Because the joint is shallow and has less subcutaneous fat, the joint is easy to be affected by cold stimulation, so winter is the high incidence season of arthritis. For patients with chronic inflammatory joints, they are more sensitive to temperature changes, which will aggravate symptoms such as joint pain, swelling and dysfunction. Here, we should remind middle-aged and elderly friends, or patients with chronic arthritis, to add clothes to keep warm for the joints in autumn and winter, and wear knee pads if necessary. Keep warm in time after exercise and do not let the joints catch cold in wet and cold weather, so as to minimize excessive joint activity or joint injury after fatigue due to load-bearing. Small needle knife can quickly alleviate the disease Patients with arthritis should not wait until their symptoms worsen and pain is unbearable. Active and standardized treatment is necessary. Li Zhao reminded that for patients with mild knee arthritis, acupuncture, small needle knife, injection of sodium hyaluronate, external application of traditional Chinese medicine and other methods can be selected to alleviate the disease. Experts also pointed out that small needle knife therapy can quickly relieve pain, and has a high frequency of clinical application. Taking the medial pain of knee joint as an example, the patients can be treated with small needle knife at the anterior superior iliac spine and medial malleolus, and the starting point of muscle can be acupuncture and released. Patients with lateral knee pain can be treated in sacroiliac joint, fibular head, lateral ankle and other parts. Good clinical curative effect can often be achieved by "treating left disease with right, treating upper disease with lower treatment". In addition, external application of plaster (mostly drugs for dispelling wind and dispersing cold, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals to alleviate symptoms), local physiotherapy massage (massage at painful parts by means of kneading, pushing, holding and kneading can relax tendons and dredge collaterals and reduce pain), acupuncture (acupuncture can dredge meridians, warm needle can warm meridians and Qi and blood, so as to achieve analgesic effect), oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine, combined with the improvement of life and diet, It can also gradually reduce the burden on the knee joint. (reporter Chen Hui, correspondent Wang Jian) [Xinhua News Agency]