Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic progressive immune disease that mainly affects the axial joints and can affect peripheral joints, viscera, and other tissues to varying degrees. This disease is more common in15~3Years old adolescents, in3Years old or8Years before, the onset is relatively less. Male patients are more than female patients, about5:1.
The incidence of ankylosing spondylitis is high, it can recur for a long time, and most of them are difficult to be cured. The prevalence rate of the disease in China is 0.3%, with hidden onset, a long course, spinal ankylosis in the late stage, joint deformities, leading to varying degrees of disability, and affecting the patient's work, labor ability, and quality of life. Most patients have long-term lumbar and leg pain as the main complaint, seek medical treatment from various aspects and symptomatic treatment does not heal and gradually worsens, and finally further examination is used to confirm the diagnosis. The initial onset site is often at the knee and hip joints, with difficulty in squatting, bending over, and walking, and pain at night worsens. Ankylosing spondylitis should strengthen cold prevention and warmth, try not to contact cold water, avoid wind and cold invasion, and never expose to wind and cold or rain and dampness. Change clothes in time, keep the home environment dry, and try to avoid living in damp houses.
This disease should be treated with a comprehensive treatment approach, mainly medication and assisted by exercise, to achieve the purpose of controlling inflammation, alleviating symptoms, and preventing acute attacks of spinal and joint ankylosis. A single drug cannot conquer this stubborn disease and needs to follow the combined medication approach used in the treatment of malignant tumors. Medical sports are an effective measure for preventing, slowing down, and improving the function of ankylosing deformities, and it is necessary to persist in deep breathing, chest expansion, and neck and waist exercises.
