Update: Treatment of osteoarthritis

✍ Scribed by Chard, Jiri ;Dieppe, Paul

• Book ID: 101643330
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.10804

✦ Synopsis

The treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) is largely symptomatic and unsatisfactory; it is made more complicated by the heterogeneity of the condition and the fact that OA of different joint sites is expressed in varying ways and may respond differently to the many therapeutic options (1). Many people in the community with symptomatic OA never seek help from traditional Western medicine, and the utilization of complementary and alternative therapies by people with OA is high (2). Within traditional medicine, available options range from education and advice, through physical therapy, aids and appliances, local and systemic drug therapy, to joint replacement surgery. This update summarizes 6 recent articles, each of which provides new and important data on a different treatment option for people with OA.