THE ROLE OF LOCAL INJECTION THERAPY IN IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH GONARTHROSIS

On the basis of a comparative analysis depending on a disease stage, there have been given the results of treatment of 42 patients with osteoarthrosis of the knee joint with the method of local injection therapy. The patients were treated on an outpatient basis by an orthopedist. It has been found that the best improvement results have been reached at the I stage of OA in 94.7 % of the patients, the results were slightly worse at the II stage - in 83.3 % and at the III stage - in 60.0 % of the patients. The patients did not show deterioration of the clinical picture of the knees’ state, but in 14.3 %, a positive role of this type of treatment has not been subjectively established. Undoubtedly, that was due to the existing orthopedic pathologies of the knee joint - contractures, presence of chondromatosis, the changing axis of the extremity, degenerative-dystrophic changes of the menisci and the articular cartilage, state of the periarticular tissues. Thus, local injection therapy in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee takes an important place in the system of complex treatment. To a greater extent, it is indicated for treatment at the I and II degrees of gonarthrosis due to its maximum efficiency. At the III degree of gonartrosis, there are