People with hip osteoarthritis may eventually need to have a hip replacement. While surgery is considered a last resort, after conservative treatment no longer controls pain and quality of life ... Read More

There is an increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) in the two weeks following total hip replacement and total knee replacement, according to study results published online by ... Read More

I'm sure you have noticed various topical pain relievers on the shelf in your local drugstore. Many of them having catchy brand names that suggest the product soothes away pain ... Read More

How often are we reminded that obesity is a risk factor for osteoarthritis? The answer to that is often. It was thought for a long time that obesity was ... Read More

A report coming out of the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine suggests that people having single-bundle ACL reconstruction are not at more risk of osteoarthritis ... Read More

Study results, presented at the 2012 European Congress on Rheumatology, revealed that prednisolone improved pain scores of patients with moderate to severe knee osteoarthritis by about one-third. There were 125 ... Read More

You've heard it repeatedly. It's very important for people with osteoarthritis to exercise regularly. But not everyone does and there are consequences that arise from getting no exercise. Exercise ... Read More

Researchers in the United Kingdom, using human tissue samples, have discovered that people with osteoarthritis have an epigenetic change -- DNA methylation -- that causes a particular gene to switch ... Read More

Researchers conducted a large genome-wide association study in 7,410 patients with severe hip and knee osteoarthritis (80% of whom had undergone total joint replacement) and 11,009 unrelated controls (people without ... Read More