Orthovisc: An ideal option for Osteoarthritis Severe knee joint pain often disturbs daily routine and delimits various activities. To get relief from it, Orthovisc injections are quite helpful. These injections are usually recommended by physicians or medical experts for providing relief from osteoarthritis or OA. In the US alone, there are millions of people who are availing the treatment for mild to moderate Osteoarthritis in...more
How Fear And Anxiety Play A Role- In Rheumatoid Arthritis By: Irene Fowler-SharpeWhen a patient is first diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis they can have many fears ranging in intensity from mild to severe. It is understandable for you to have many fears related to your condition. Some fears could include: Will I be crippled? Will I end up in a wheelchair? Will my friends still accept me? Will I be capable of dealing...more
Arthritis Pain Alleviation - Know How To Successfully Handle Arthritis Anguish Joint disease pain treatment -- Recently, a number of arthritis victims seem to have been choosing glucosamine as being the number 1 treatment for their own arthritis pain alleviation. While scientific discipline has yet to create us a total solution for arthritis, there are many kinds of alternative medicine which can provide joint disease pain elimination. While one individual may possibly benefit from magnetic therapy and another may see comfort via traditional Chinese medicine, glucosamine health supplements are proving themselves to be the leader of the pack when it comes to joint disease pain alleviation. Much research is being carried out about how glucosamine will manage to benefit victims with arthritis. Glucosamine has been demonstrated to greatly reduce irritation also to slow down the advancement of joint deterioration in arthritis individuals. A large number of arthritis affected individuals have added a dietary supplement of glucosamine to their particular diet programs and are revealing it offers the cabability to bring about some kind of long term comfort.Glucosamine is...more
Knee Osteoarthritis What is it? More than 10 million Americans have been diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis making it the most common form of osteoarthritis in the US. Knee osteoarthritis is generally caused by the deterioration of articular cartilage in the knee. This particular type of cartilage is especially important because it...more
Arthritis Knee Pain Relief Osteoarthritis or simply called knee arthritis is a kind of arthritis that is caused by the breakdown and collapsing of the cartilage. Cartilage is the protective layer between the two joints. It occurs mostly in old males aged 45. There are two causes of knee arthritis; the primary and secondary...more
My Doctor Wants Me to Participate in an Arthritis Clinical Trial - I'm Worried About Placebo Clinical trials involving medicines for arthritis are valuable in that they may eventually lead to a cure for this condition.It has been demonstrated that the placebo response in arthritis clinical trials can reach up to 30-40 percent. That means that roughly one-third of patients receiving placebo will pronounce they are feeling better... or patients receiving placebo will feel that they are 30-40 percent better than they were before taking medication.In any event, the placebo response has been derided by academic physicians as proving that a given therapy doesn't work... and lauded by other physicians who feel that the placebo response should be harnessed. The latest study from Manchester is firmly in the camp of the latter group.Research by the Human Pain Research Group at The University of Manchester suggests that people's responses to placebo vary according to their way of thinking.Forty normal volunteers took part in an experiment funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign (the British equivalent of the American Arthritis Foundation) using an artificial pain...more
Doctor... Does Gender Play a Role in the Prognosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis? The authors based their findings on approximately 700 adults who had been recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.Their average age was 58, and they had...more
Why Is My Arthritis Not Getting Better? Therefore, one of the first questions to ask when you aren't getting better from your arthritis is this:What is the diagnosis? Is it the correct diagnosis? A misdiagnosis could explain why you're...more
Eliminating The Cause Of Arthritis Arthritis has been affecting many people of all ages. The elderly are the usual victim of this disease. But do not think that it only affects those who are of age. Younger people can suffer from...more
Other Types Of Arthritis The less common forms of arthritis conditions include ankylosing sodalities, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, infectious arthritis, septic arthritis and many more. There are also a number of rheumatic syndromes...more
Zimmer's NexGen CR-Flex May Cause Harm To Osteoarthritis Patients Osteoarthritis of the knees is a debilitating condition caused by deterioration of the knee ligaments, leading to bone-on-bone contact at the joint. Over 21 million...more
Trouble With the NexGen CR-Flex in Osteoarthritis Patients Roughly 21 million people in the United States have to deal with the side effects of osteoarthritis of the knees. Osteoarthritis is a painful condition characterized by the...more