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If you suffer from osteoarthritis, it hinders you in your daily life. You feel it when you get up in the morning, or when you have not used the affected joint for a while. Sometimes the pain can even be so bad that you feel it when you are sitting still. Treating osteoarthritis with LASER helps to relieve the pain.

People with osteoarthritis may experience the following complaints:

• Pain when getting up
• Pain during loading
• Less movement
• Stiffness
• Cracking joints
• Swelling of joints
• Change in body posture

Diagnosis Osteoarthritis

Through physical examination, the family doctor or physiotherapist can determine whether there is osteoarthritis. They often look for the presence of, for example, creaking joints and bone growths. Such a physical examination is often sufficient to determine the condition. X-rays are often taken for a definitive diagnosis. Incidentally, osteoarthritis is a form of rheumatism, but not inflammatory rheumatism, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Although arthritis can be a cause of osteoarthritis.

Causes of osteoarthritis

The cause of osteoarthritis is unknown. We do know the following risk factors:

Age

Older people are more likely to get osteoarthritis. Although it also occurs in younger people.

Weight

If you are overweight, you are more likely to develop osteoarthritis. The joints then have to endure more.

Hereditary predisposition

Thickened knuckles (arthrosis in the fingers) are more common in some families. Some people are born with a joint abnormality, such as hip dysplasia. As a result, osteoarthritis of the hip is already present at a young age.

A heavy physical profession

We see that people who have a heavy physical job are more likely to get osteoarthritis. These people put more strain on their joints than people with a light job

A previous injury

Anyone who has ever had an injury to a joint is more likely to suffer from osteoarthritis. These people often only suffer from that one joint, the chance of osteoarthritis in another joint is then smaller.

Other rheumatic complaints

If you also have inflammatory rheumatism, you have a greater chance of developing osteoarthritis.

Pain treatment with LASER for osteoarthritis

Because osteoarthritis is painful and hinders movement, while movement is actually good, you can use LASER as a supplement to movement. It is known that laser treatment usually relieves pain considerably. This is partly due to the anti-inflammatory effect.

Maintenance therapy

Osteoarthritis does not go away. LASER can help you to relieve the pain, or make it disappear, so that you can move more easily again. That is why laser treatment for osteoarthritis consists of pain relief. LASER also works well on the self-healing capacity of the body, at the cellular level. That slows down the process. After the first series of treatments, a maintenance treatment usually follows once every four or six weeks.