Primary care providers (PCPs) play a key role in helping patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) maintain the best quality of life possible as long as possible. With no cure or reliable treatments to ...

Knee pain might seem like a natural part of aging, but new research shows it could be your body’s way of warning you about early-stage osteoarthritis.

Nearly 33 million Americans have osteoarthritis. Experts explain how it affects the body, and why it’s so hard to diagnose. By Knvul Sheikh It may start as a twinge in your knee or hip when you get ...

If you’re an avid long distance runner, or committed to your weekly HIIT class, you’re probably familiar with the occasional ache and pain. After all, it’s normal for your joints to feel a little sore ...

NEW YORK April 26 (UPI) --The ability to detect knee osteoarthritis with a blood test up to eight years before it appears on X-rays -- as researchers have done -- could lead to therapies that delay ...

Degenerative joint diseases like osteoarthritis and intervertebral disk degeneration are conditions that affect millions of ...

A kind of protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease might also contribute to the breakdown of cartilage that’s characteristic of osteoarthritis. In a new study, published in Science Translational ...

Current osteoarthritis treatment manages symptoms rather than addressing the underlying disease, but a new University of Adelaide study has shown the condition may be treatable and reversible.

People with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) may have a higher risk of cognitive decline including dementia. Specifically, those with knee osteoarthritis have more accelerated brain aging, according ...

When arthritis affects hand joints, daily activities can become difficult. Osteoarthritis of the hands usually occurs later in life, with specific joints often affected more than others. The joints ...