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Shoulder and elbow joint osteoarthritis
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Osteoarthritis is one of the causes of pain and dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint. Most often there is a secondary osteoarthritis of this joint against the background of inflammatory arthropathies.
As a random finding, they often show changes in the sternoclavicular joint characteristic of osteoarthritis. These changes rarely occur clinically. Osteoarthritis is a common cause of pain in the acromioclavicular joint. The patient, as a rule, can not accurately determine the source of pain and characterizes it as "pain in the shoulder joint". When examining the area of the joint, it is found painful over its projection, sometimes the osteophyte can be propolped over the upper pole.
Osteoarthritis of the shoulder joint is rarely seen, and mostly in older women. The main symptoms of osteoarthritis of the shoulder joint are soreness in movements and palpation, painful restriction of movements, especially lifting of the arm and external rotation are especially difficult. On the radiographs, there are "classic" radiologic symptoms of osteoarthritis, often with large osteophytes in the lower pole region of the glenoid fossa.
The elbow joint is rarely affected by osteoarthritis. Men are sick more often than women, and usually the process is involved in the brachial section of this complex joint. Pain syndrome with elbow joint osteoarthritis is usually not expressed (sometimes absent), the main signs of the disease are fixed flexion of the joint, crepitations and limitation of the volume of movements.
Despite the fact that the ankle joint is often injured and carries a heavy load, it is rarely affected by osteoarthritis.
Women of any age (especially the middle and elderly) often can detect valgus deformity of the metatarsal joint of the first toe (hallux valgus) - the result of wearing a narrow high-heeled shoe. This deformity, as a rule, is accompanied by the Ouplacephalangeal joint of 1 toe of the foot. Osteoarthrosis of this localization is rarely manifested clinically, pain in the joint area is usually caused by a secondary inflammation of the joint bag.
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