Every morning, my fingers can't move. What is the disease?Doctor: This is a rheumatoid signal light

Get up in the morning and find that my fingers are stiff, and I can't even move?

This problem is not uncommon for many patients with rheumatoid arthritis. In clinical, this situation is called "morning stiffness".

If you have not encountered this situation or have not heard of the existence of this disease, you can only say that you are lucky. Because in my country, the group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis is very large. Data showed that the incidence of rheumatoids in my country can reach 0.42%. In addition, the number of patients can even reach 5 million.

For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, one of the most headaches is that they must deal with fingers that cannot work "work" every morning. Every morning, my fingers feel stiff and unable to move.

For many patients, I have never figured out why this morning stiffness has occurred?

In fact, it is still the calamity of inflammation.

1. What is morning stiffness?

In simple terms, morning stiffness is the stiffness of the morning.

Many patients with rheumatoid arthritis may be the first manifestations of joint pain, and then systemic symptoms, such as fatigue, loss of appetite, or weight loss.

As the condition progresses, there will be pain and stiffness of finger joints, usually 1 to 2 joints, and this stiffness may become more and more serious.

In addition, in the morning, the feeling of joint stiffness is the most obvious, so it has always been called the morning stiffness.

This kind of joint rigidity may last long, and sometimes it lasts for several hours, which seriously affects normal work and life.

But why is the joint stiff in the morning?

Second, it is the calamity caused by inflammation.

In a sense, morning stiffness is a manifestation of inflammation.

For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, their joints have serious problems.

From the perspective of pathology, inflammation of their synovial membrane and blood vessels.

However, whether there is a problem with the synovial membrane or the blood vessels in the surrounding tissue, the ending of the end is similar, that is, the obstacles of the circulation of blood and lymphatic fluid.

During the day, when we work and activities, with the squeezing of the tissue, blood and lymph fluid can flow normally; however, it is different at night. Most of the fingers are quiet when we sleep. In this kind of In the state, the joints of the joints have serious problems.

Edema slowly intensified in the joints.

This leads to the swelling of the surrounding soft tissue. Many patients feel that the joints of the finger are swollen.

However, with the increase of activities, these swelling problems will gradually improve. After all, it is not dead water, but living water.

Therefore, it is easy to have morning stiffness at night, and the morning stiffness feels slowly disappeared after the event, and the joints have restored the function of the past.

However, the remission of this morning stiffness is related to many factors. If the condition is very serious, there may not be signs of improvement after the activity. Therefore, for patients with heavy condition, they feel stiff every day, and this situation is not impossible.

In addition, some scholars believe that through the situation of morning stiffness, the disease of the disease can also be judged.

Third, rheumatoid signal lights.

Some people regard the morning stiffness as a rheumatoid signal light. In fact, the morning stiffness does have very important value. Generally speaking, rheumatoid arthritis can be divided into activity and clinical relief period.

1. More than 1 hour.

For the criteria for judging during the activity period, it is generally believed that the morning stiffness is needed for one hour, or even more than one hour.

2. less than 15 minutes.

If the morning stiffness does not reach an hour or even less than 15 minutes, it is judged as a clinical relief period.

The reason why these two stages are to distinguish between the two stages is that the treatment of the two situations and concepts is different, and the drugs used are also different.

Moreover, the specific judgment is the active period or the clinical relief period, and other measurement indicators are needed. It is not simply looking at the duration of the morning stiffness, and the specific situation must be analyzed in detail.

In addition, many people have problems with the time calculation of morning stiffness. They should start with a sense of stiffness after awake, until this stiffness is reduced. It is not that the finger is full to stop the timing, and many people calculate the correct calculation.

4. How should the fingers move?

We already know that morning stiffness has a lot to do with rheumatoid arthritis, but what should we do when morning stiffness?

The core idea is activity finger.

However, violent "activity" is definitely unnecessary.

Here, I recommend some movements of active fingers, which can help you better activities. Don't look at it very simple, but very practical.

Summarize.

For patients with rheumatoid arthritis, morning stiffness is not a rare problem. Many patients are troubled by this obstacle.

However, there are still many people who do not know the morning stiffness, and they do not know why the joints are stiff. Even if you know this symptom, you don't understand the significance of the morning stiffness?

I hope that everyone will pay more attention to the issue of morning stiffness, judge whether it is the activity period in time, and correctly treat them with symptomatic treatment.

references

Hou Xiujuan, Liu Xiaoping. The morning stiffness is the "signal lamp" of rheumatoid arthritis [j]. Family medicine. Happy health, 2021 (02): 55.

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