1. Frozen Shoulder
This disorder is often caused by stress or longer lasting emotional pressure and often middle-aged women are suffering from it. It can occur within a couple of days. The shoulder joint is painful, significantly restricted, hurts even at night and its movements become more and more limited day by day. Often within 1 or 2 weeks the moving of shoulders restricted completely. The patient might find it very difficult to carry out simple daily activities such as bathing. This condition is also called the frozen shoulders sickness. As treatment, inflammation relieving and injections are necessary, and further more exercising with a physiotherapist.
2. Soft Tissue Inflammation
Soft tissue is the muscles and the connective tissue together. Its disorder often caused by insomnia, stress or work-related problems etc. The patients complain of general soft tissue pain, and painful knots appear under the skin around the neck and the back areas. They strengthen each other, so as a vicious cycle the pain increases even further. It can also appear in the muscles of the lower arm, or in other cases it causes painful tension in the buttocks. These areas become very sensitive for pressure. The pain below the elbow area radiates to the direction of the hand, while the buttocks-muscle pain radiates to the direction of the knee.
3. Back Pain
The back pain is very often caused by the osteoarthritis of the spine. A process of cartilage degradation in the small joints of the spine causes the disorder of the small joints and results the limitation of movements of the spine. The low back pain or the inter vertebral discus degeneration occurs frequently and often in young adulthood as well. Severe cases are the discus hernia which in general appears on the cervical or lumbar parts of the spine. The lumbar hernia irradiates to the extremitas inferior with hypaesthesia or paraesthesia on the lateral zone of the leg. Even coughing or sneezing might cause pain by a block-like feeling. The patient is often unable to walk. The cervical hernia also irradiates to the armes ( extremitas superior). The area around the neck becomes very painful and motion limited. Very often inflammatory disorders occur around the spine area (the Bechterew disorder or Ankylosing Spondylitis, AP ). These disorders often genetically determinated. The spine becomes bent and painfully stiff. In advanced cases the neck becomes totally stiff and the head can only be turned with the movement of the whole body, a sort of robot-like action.
4. Polyarthritis
A characteristic example is the Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Sometimes it develops in childhood, or in young adulthood, from one month to the other, causing pain in the hands, the fingers, the wrists resulting morning stiffness. In many cases from the very beginning pain appears in the small joints of the hands, knees, shoulders, developing into tender or swollen joints problems and movement limitations. Some patients complain about tension in the knees, that is a consequence of the inflammation and caused by the synovial fluidum. The consequences of the small joint deformities will lead to a decrease of functional capacity of the patients which actually mean functional disability (e.g. they cannot cut meat or button their clothes up). With the advancing of the disorder the effected joints will become deformed and ill-function, it becomes a burden for the patient to clean himself. The quality of life decreases and in case of neglecting treatments the patient can end up in a wheel-chair. The disorder shows typical blood, X-ray and clinic deviations, so on the bases of those improvement can be achieved with drug treatment supervised with appropriate experience.
5. Osteoarthritis
It is a disorder mainly effecting middle-aged or older men or women, very often occurring to more members of the same family. Working conditions do not seem to influence the appearance of this disorder. The patients` movements become limited already for light burdening and feel pain with certain movements too. This disorder takes months to become fully developed, causing difficulties in walking, climbing stairs, or standing up from sitting position. The domain of motion of the effected joint will become limited, e.g. the patient will find it more and more difficult to put on his socks or tie his shoes, or cleaning himself might become problematic (bathing in a bathtub), or simply the use of public transportation (getting on an off buses). The pain and limitation of motion worsen the quality of life. |