The greatest burden in the components of the musculoskeletal system is on the feet. This is especially true of the fair sex, who like to wear shoes with high heels or a platform. Therefore, inflammation of the joints of the foot is one of the most frequent complaints of women of any age and physique.
Symptoms of foot joint inflammation
Signs of the pathological process depend on what disease it caused. The most common cause of inflammation of the joints on the foot is arthritis. It can affect not one, but several zones of the foot, provoking a variety of clinical manifestations:
- feeling of stiffness of movements, especially in small finger joints;
- pain in different parts of the foot;
- discomfort during walking;
- swelling;
- swelling in the ankles;
- redness of the skin;
- increased local body temperature;
- fast fatigue after minor physical exertion;
- heaviness in the legs ;
- change of gait.
Treatment of inflammation of the foot joints with folk remedies
Alternative methods help quickly stop the inflammatory process, ease pain, but are not effective therapy of the disease. They are used only as an auxiliary treatment.
Potato Compress
Ingredients:
- potato - 1 pc .;
- water 100 ml.
Preparation
Peel and grate the potato on a large grater. Place the mixture in a saucepan with water and heat the mixture to 38-39 degrees. Transfer the potatoes to food film and gauze cut, attach to the diseased joint, fixing with a bandage. Leave for all night.
How to treat inflammation of the foot joints medically?
Traditional therapy scheme:
- Admission of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs - Indomethacin, Ibuprofen.
- Introduction of steroid hormones with pronounced inflammation - Kenalog, Dexamethasone.
- The use of chondroprotectors (during rehabilitation) - Artra, Chondroxide.
In some cases, the use of antibiotics, especially if the cause of inflammation has become a bacterial infection.