16/08/2021
is a disease that causes pain and stiffness (lasting less than 30 minutes).
# Impaired mobility and loss of function are common in patients with osteoarthritis.
# Initially, the disease is characterized by non - uniform localized degeneration of articular cartilage.
# It is associated with thickening of the subchondral bone, bone growth in the margins of the joints (Osteophytes ) and inflammation of the synovium.
Approximately 25 percentage of people over age 55 report having or having had knee pain at least a few dayz a month during the previous year.
Half of these patients have changes suggestive of osteoarthritis in their knee radiographs.
Osteoarthritis of the knees is increases with age and more common in women.
Primarily affects cartilage, the tissue that cushion the ends of the bones within the joints
for developing this disease include" :
# Obesity.
# Repeated knee trauma.
# History of knee joint surgery.
# Working involving flexion and elevation movements.
by in :
# Osteoarthritis usually affects joints bilaterally and symmetrically.
# Areas that are more commonly involved are the knees, hips and hands.
# In Osteoarthritis there is an imbalance between the resorption and formation of articular cartilage.
# The course of the disease is chronic in nature.
