Avascular Necrosis Treatment Without Surgery: Alternatives To Invasive Procedures
Do you think that it is impossible for you to maintain an active life with avascular necrosis?
The pain is unbearable and your mobility is completely affected. You may face challenges in your workplace due to the pain, physical limitation and lowered mobility.
But do you know that there is effective avascular necrosis treatment without surgery?
Regenerative treatments like stem cell therapy have shown exceptional results in treating avascular necrosis.
Let’s learn how these therapies and treatments can help you live a pain-free and active life.
Key Takeaways: Avascular Necrosis Treatment Without Surgery
- How AVN affects your daily life due to the extreme pain and lack of mobility it causes
- What are the causes, symptoms, and stages of AVN? How important it is for you to treat it as early as possible and how untreated AVN can snatch your active life from you.
- What are the benefits of non-surgical treatments of AVN? What are the differences between surgical and non-surgical treatments??
- How stem cell therapy can restore your active life and reduce pain drastically.
- Know whether you are the ideal candidate for stem cell therapy for AVN.
What is Avascular Necrosis?
In simple terms, avascular necrosis (AVN) is a disease in which your bone tissues die due to a lack of blood supply.
When your bone is broken or your dislocated joint hampers the blood flow to a particular area of the bone AVN occurs.
AVN can lead to tiny breaks in your bone and even cause it to collapse.
Though the process of bone collapse may take months and years, you need to treat it in time to avoid such a situation.
Anyone can suffer from AVN but it is common in people within 30 to 50 years of age.
AVN is also known as osteonecrosis.
What parts of your body can be affected by Avascular Necrosis?
Avascular Necrosis can target bone tissues in any joint, but it commonly targets your hips. Other than hips, AVN can affect your:
- Knees
- Upper arms
- Ankles
- Jaw
What are the different types of Avascular Necrosis?
Avascular necrosis or osteonecrosis are of two types. Let’s have a look at them:
Trauma-related avascular necrosis happens after an injury such as bone injury, fracture, or joint dislocation.
Non-trauma-related avascular necrosis is common among people who are consuming alcohol or have been on steroids for a long time.
What are the causes of Avascular Necrosis?
If there is a disruption in blood supply to a part of your bone, AVN can happen. When the blood doesn’t reach that part, it doesn’t get the oxygen and nutrients it needs.
If the area of the bone is small and doesn’t bear your body weight, your body may be able to repair it fast. But if your body cannot repair the bone, it may result in bone erosion, fracture, and bone collapse.
The causes of AVN can be:
- Injury
- Blood vessel damage
- Fracture
- Accessive alcohol abuse
- Smoking
- Certain chronic medical conditions
- Long-time use of steroids
Some of the risk factors of AVN are:
- Radiation treatment
- Chemotherapy
- Pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
- Decompression disease (a life-threatening disease which occurs when dissolved gases form bubbles in the bloodstream)
- Autoimmune diseases
Now that you know the causes, let’s move on and learn about the symptoms.
What are the symptoms of Avascular Necrosis?
You may not have any symptoms during the initial stage. But slowly, you will experience them. The symptoms of AVN are
- Intermittent pain
- Stiff joints
- AVN in hips or knees can lead to limping
- Sudden increase in pain due to bone collapse
- Motion limited by pain
- Difficulty in climbing stairs, walking, and standing for a long time
- Arthritis
The symptoms will vary depending on the stages of avascular necrosis.