-Introduction To osteoarthritis:
“Osteoarthritis is a age dependent degenerative disorder of joints that causes pain,swelling, osteoarthritic morning stiffness, limited joint movement, and hence compromise the quality of life.”
-Explanation:
-Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis among other types that affect most old age people in the world.There are many types of osteoarthritis.
- It affects women more than male.
Many factors contribute to osteoarthritis development among common are the ,
- Old age
- Previous joint injury,truma ,disease
- Overweight
-Symptoms
- Swollen knee
- Sore knee joint
- Limitation of joint mobility
- Osteoarthritic morning stiffness
- Pain which exacerbate with using of joint
-Most common site of body involved in decreasing order are
- Knee joint
- Hip joint
- Shoulder joint
- wrist joint
- Ankle joints
-Best treatment for osteoarthritis involve the following approaches (non surgical arthritis treatment for knees)
- Exercise,healthy diet can improve osteoarthritis ,
- Maintain healthy weight can alleviate the symptoms of osteoarthritis
- Arthritic Pain relievers can be used in case of pain
- In severe case arthritis knee replacement can improve quality of life
- Physical therapy for arthritic knees
- Home remedies for arthritic hip pain other jont pain.
- There are now new therapy for osteoarthritis of knee and other sites ,but as usual Osteoarthritis self care is best of all.
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