Study: a low dose radiation treats arthritis

3 Research teams from San Francisco said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the treatment of radiological crops that the use of this treatment, with a low dose, is a safe and effective option to treat light to medium. A random experiment, conducted in South Korea, included 114 volunteers, suffered from knee -arthritis, and the results showed that those who received 3 gray units of radiation, over 6 sessions, had a noticeable decrease in pain and improved the physical functions. On the other hand, the radiation doses used are usually between 45 and 60 gray. The benefits of radiotherapy and after 4 months the results showed a tangible improvement of 70% in at least 2 indicators, namely pain, physical functions and the general condition, after receiving a low dose radiation, compared to 42% after undergoing a false procedure that does not have a real effect. The researchers also found that receiving a very low dose of radiation (0.3 GRA) was no more effective than the false procedure. US researchers have reported separately that 84% of 103 patients received radioactive treatment for arthritis, knees or other parts of the body, which had an improvement in the level of pain. Pain relief and the results showed that pain relief rate was close to the various joints, body weights and for both sexes. Dr. Pyong Hyuk Kim, of the National University of Soul, who led the Korean study, said in a statement that low -dose radiotherapy is regularly used to treat joint pain in Europe, but high quality evidence based on random experiences has been limited. Kim added that the radiation doses used to treat arthritis are much lower than those used to treat cancer, and that the targeted joints are usually far from important organs, reducing the risk of side effects. Treatment of arthritis cites German researchers who followed more than 4600 elderly patients, who received radiation treatment; Due to the arthritis between 1994 and 2010, they noted only 3 possible diagnoses related to solid oncology cancer during 15 years of succession, two of which were skin cancer, known as basal cell cancer. The researchers said the results indicate that the radiation doses used to treat the pain of the musculoskeletal system in the elderly pose “very few risks in causing firm malignant crops”. However, 1.4% of patients were injured with leukemia, especially if the treatment was directed near bone marrow, responsible for the production of blood cells, which is an indication of the need to use radiotherapy with caution in the shoulder and stem areas, as the researchers notified.