MÔ TẢ ĐẶC ĐIỂM LÂM SÀNG CỦA BỆNH NHÂN THOÁI HÓA KHỚP GỐI NGUYÊN PHÁT ĐIỀU TRỊ TẠI KHOA Y HỌC CỔ TRUYỀN BỆNH VIỆN PHỤC HỒI CHỨC NĂNG HẢI DƯƠNG

Abstract

Objective: Describe the clinical characteristics of patients with primary knee osteoarthritis treated at the Department of Traditional Medicine, Hai Duong Rehabilitation Hospital. Subjects and Methods: A prospective descriptive study on 60 primary knee osteoarthritis patients from August 2021 to September 2022. Patients eligible for inclusion in the study were clinically examined, taking blood for testing and taking X-ray of the knee joint. Results: The mean age in the study was 64.55 ± 7.95 (age); The female/male ratio is 2.5/1. The proportion of patients with average BMI accounted for the highest rate of 63.3%, followed by overweight 25% and obese 5%. Patients with mental work accounted for 55%, manual workers accounted for 45%. Pain is an important symptom that causes patients to go to the doctor. In the study, 100% of patients showed signs of knee pain; According to the VAS scale of pain, 80% of patients had severe pain, 20% of patients had moderate pain. The average VAS score of the patients in the study was 6.8 ± 0.4. Most of the patients in the study had moderate range of motion, 71.67%, mild 20% and severe 8.33%. Assessing knee mobility according to the WOMAC scale, patients were mainly at poor level, accounting for 93.33%, the rest were moderate and good. The group of patients with knee osteoarthritis stage II (according to the classification of the stage to assess the degree of knee osteoarthritis on X-ray according to Kellgren and Lawrence in 1987) accounted for mainly 71,67%.