Healthy & Active Adults Still Receive Joint Replacements?
Many healthy and active adults wonder why they are experience joint pain, arthritis, or deterioration of the cartilage surrounding their hip or knee joints. In addition, healthy and active patients are curious “If I’m healthy and exercising regularly, how is it possible I need a joint replacement surgery?” Let’s dive in…
A Healthy Lifestyle
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle through proper nutrition, exercise, sleep, and hydration is always going to have long term benefits. We strongly encourage all adults to frequently speak with their primary care physician regarding diet, exercise, sleep and activity levels appropriate for their age, restrictions, and abilities. When patients experience joint pain while living a healthy lifestyle, they often become frustrated and confused as to why. It’s important to understand what joint arthritis is and why a healthy adult may qualify for a joint replacement.
What is Arthritis?
Arthritis of the joint is due to deterioration of the cartilage around the bones, resulting in bone on bone friction, causing pain. While this process can take months or years to progress, for some patients, the pain can be unbearable. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to reverse the process and there is currently no way to regrow cartilage once it has worn away. Despite the many drugs, medications, treatments and other various products out there claiming to reverse arthritis or regrow cartilage, it is not possible. For some people, it is possible to slow the deterioration or alleviate pain through nonsurgical treatment options, but ultimately, these are temporary solutions and can provide relief for limited periods of time.
Speaking to the question about how a healthy adult experiences arthritis, this is because arthritis is genetic. We strongly encourage young adults who have parents or relatives with joint arthritis to reach out to our office in efforts to evaluate your specific case. Our team at Whole Health Orthopedic Institute provides consultations for patients who are looking to be proactive about joint replacements and joint arthritis, especially if a relative has already undergone a joint replacement surgery or experiences joint arthritis.
Impacts of a Healthy Lifestyle
We encourage adults to strive for a healthy lifestyle because your health is your wealth. If you are prone to joint arthritis and choose to live a healthy lifestyle, if the time comes for you to undergo a joint replacement surgery, your preoperative, in operative and post operative experience will be much easier, faster, and stronger. Our Whole Health Wellness Institute Team will be able to work with you to provide pre operative approved exercises as well as recovery exercises that fit your lifestyle.
Contact Us for a Consultation Today:
Call our office today if you or a loved one are concerned about joint arthritis as a healthy and active adult! We can assess your case and provide thorough recommendations as well as treatment plans that fit your healthy lifestyle!
