Osteoarthritis Clinic
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease of joints. Arthritis pain limits activity and negatively affects quality of life. For those patients with chronic medical problems, activity limitations from osteoarthritis can affect their ability to control diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. An estimated 27 million Americans age 25 and older have osteoarthritis. Our goal is early detection and comprehensive management and improving the quality of life.
Let our comprehensive team of experts diagnosis and provide evidence based high quality treatment to get your osteoarthritis related symptoms under control to get you back to the healthy lifestyle you deserve.
Understanding Osteoarthritis
In a healthy joint, the ends of bones are lined by smooth but hard tissue called cartilage. The joint is wrapped by a joint capsule lined with a synovial membrane that produces joint (synovial) fluid. The capsule and fluid protect the cartilage, muscles, and connective tissue.
Osteoarthritis affects the joint as a whole: cartilage, bone, joint lining and the joint fluid.
In Osteoarthritis, the surface layer of cartilage breaks down and wears away due to mechanical loading (wear and tear) and inflammation. This allows bones under the cartilage to rub together as the disease advances, causing:
–Increased abnormal (new) bone formation as a response to micro injury.
–Decrease in viscosity of joint fluid (synovial fluid) with progressive loss of lubricant action and increasing friction between the articular cartilage.
–Synovitis: Inflammation of the lining of the joint called synovium
Though it is considered to be non-inflammatory arthritis, there is evidence supporting that inflammation is the underlying process that perpetuates the progression of osteoarthritis. Increased inflammatory mediators are found in the joint fluid.
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