How does treatment with infiltrated hyaluronic acid work?

What is it?

Hyaluronic Acid (HA), also known as hyaluronate, is a non-sulfured glycosaminoglycan polysaccharide, widely distributed in human body. Structure of HA consists in a chain with different length of one disaccharide (glucuronic and N-acetylglucosamine). Molecular weight oscillates between 5000 Da and 20 million Da. In human body the middle molecular weight is some 4 million Da. It is soluble in water as sodium salt. It was discovered in the vitreous humor of bovine eye in 1934.

The HA is a part of the connective tissue (is a fundamental component of the extracellular matrix) and synovial liquid (increasing its viscosity). The skin and the cartilage are two tissues rich in hyaluronic acid and plays a very important role inside them. The HA plays a very important role in processes of repair of wounds and aggressions in skin.

How is it used?

Hyaluronic acid (AH) is a part of the connective tissue (is a fundamental component of extracellular matrix) and of synovial liquid (increasing its viscosity). Skin and cartilage are two tissues rich in hyaluronic acid and plays a very important role inside them. Treatment with infiltrated hyaluronic acid offers a gradual relief of pain and a general improvement of functions of the injured cartilage. It is worth to warn that the effect of treatment with hyaluronic acid is not usually immediate but on the middle and long term.

Injuries which may be treated with Hyaluronic Acid

Knee Arthrosis

Knee arthrosis is an illness producing a degeneration because of cartilage wear, main buffer of knee joint.

Metatarsalgia

Metatarsalgia is an injury of the interdigital nerve due to an anormal growth of this one. Its main symptom is onset of pain in “pad” zone.

Hip arthrosis or coxofemoral arthrosis

Hip arthrosis or coxofemoral arthrosis is the one which affects the hip cartilage. Hip joint is formed by femur head and acetabulum.

Ankle arthrosis

Ankle arthrosis is an injury produced by progressive wear of joint surfaces which conform ankle, tibia joint face, talus and fibula.

Femoral impingement

Femoral impingement or femoral entrapment is an injury produced when, by the moment of a movement of flexion or internal rotation, there is an impact of femur head with dome of acetabulum.

Chondromalacia patellae

Chondromalacia patellae, also known as patellar chondromalacia, is an injury produced by degeneration of cartilage of kneecap.

Osteochondrosis of Freiberg

Osteochondrosis is an illness affecting the development of bones, and may trigger a fragmentation or sclerosis.

Rheumatoid arthritis of ankle and foot or polyarthritis.

When we suffer foot and ankle arthritis, due to a disfunction of the organism, our own cells attack the ankle joint seriously deteriorating, producing a wear in cartilages and tissues which compound the joint.