With the passage of time, the human body ages and its joints also deteriorate.
When you reach the age of 35, the cartilage of the joints begins to lose properties and decrease in thickness at a rate of 1% per year, says doctor José Félix Castillo Sáenz, orthopedist and traumatologist at the National Orthopedic Center.
“If we add to this some type of physical activity that overloads the joint, we will be accelerating the decrease of this cartilage to the point where the joint develops an obvious osteoarthritis, which is a non-reversible degenerative problem, since the chondrocyte (cartilage cell) is not able to regenerate, and once the cartilage is lost, it does not recover,” explains this doctor with a subspecialty in hip and knee surgery, mainly joint replacements and hip joint preservation surgery (hip arthroscopy).
Castillo Sáenz, a pioneer in performing hip arthroscopy in the isthmus, explains that not only the articular cartilage can suffer injury in this case, but also the ligaments, tendons and muscles are injured.
