One of the more common questions I am asked is if a patient's arthritis will ever get better. When told that osteoarthritis is causing their pain, some patients get despondent and say something like, "Oh, I was afraid of that. I guess that's just part of getting older. It can't get better, right? I mean, even if we treat the symptoms, the arthritis won't go away."
This is one of the challenging aspects of treating patients with osteoarthritis. In addition to...
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Arthritis is a disease that causes pain and loss of movement of the joints. The word arthritis literally means joint inflammation (arth=joint,... Read more »
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Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have found that obese mice on a high-fat diet demonstrated improvement in their osteoarthritis (OA)... Read more »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and McNeil Consumer Healthcare have announced a nationwide recall of all lots of Tylenol Arthritis Pain Caplet... Read more »
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