Category Archives: Pain Management

knee osteoarthritis pain dmards
Tuesday, July 17 |Arthritis Foundation

Disease-Modifying Drugs No Help for OA Pain

Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs)are not effective treatments for hand or knee osteoarthritis (OA), according to a new meta-analysis. The drugs are commonly used to treatrheumatoid arthritis (RA)and other forms ofinflammatory arthritis, but researchers in the United Kingdom (UK) found they were no better than placebo for OA pain. Their findings appeared in June 2018 inRheumatology.

DMARDs aren’t pain medications. They’re meant to slow the disease and prevent further damage to joints and organs by suppressing inflammation. When DMARDs work, pain usually improves as inflammation gets under control.

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knee osteoarthritis injections
Tuesday, June 12 |Arthritis Foundation

Hyaluronic Acid for Osteoarthritis

If you haveosteoarthritis (OA), you know all about joint pain and stiffness. One cause of these symptoms is the fact that hyaluronic acid (HA), a naturally occurring joint lubricant, breaks down in people with OA. To help alleviate the pain, your doctor might recommend treatment with hyaluronic acid injections – sometimes known as gel injections.

什么是血凝素注射?

HA injections replace missing joint lubricant and are currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the knees. However, some doctors may use the injections in shoulders and hips as well.

The treatments will most likely take place in your doctor’s office. The HA will be injected directly into the joint. The shots are usually given once a week for three to five weeks, depending on the brand used.

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knee osteoarthritis african american
Thursday, February 8 |Arthritis Foundation

More African-Americans Could Benefit from Knee Replacement Surgery

Studies have shown that racial minorities in the United States undergo fewer totalknee replacements (TKR)forknee osteoarthritis (OA)than whites do, but the reasons for this are unclear. A new study sheds light on why fewer black Americans tend to have the surgery – and at what cost. It found that African-Americans are offered the option of TKR in fewer cases than whites are, they accept the option less frequently, and when they do undergo the procedure, they have higher rates of complications. Because of these factors, they lose a large number of what’s called “quality-adjusted life years” or QALYs.

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exercise and weight loss for osteoarthritis
Monday, January 8 |Arthritis Foundation

Nondrug Pain Relief Underused for OA

People with hip or kneeosteoarthritis (OA)use oral pain medications more often than nondrug pain treatments, such as physical therapy,knee joint injectionsand topical creams, according to an analysis of three clinical trials. That’s in spite of guidelines that recommend trying nondrug treatments before medications.

The analysis, which appeared recently inArthritis Care & Research,他们观察了杜克大学、达勒姆退伍军人事务(VA)医疗保健系统和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的研究人员进行的试验。共有近1200名年龄在61 - 65岁的患者参与了这三项研究。所有参与者都患有膝关节或髋关节骨性关节炎，大多数人超重，并接受了初级保健医生的治疗。没有人达到保持健康所需的每周至少150分钟的体育锻炼。

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back and neck pain osteoarthritis
Wednesday, November 1 |Arthritis Foundation

When A Back or Neck Ache Means You Have OA

Maybe you overdid it cleaning the house or sprucing up your garden this weekend. Or you’re using a hot or cold pack on your lower back more often over the past few months. Does the pain come and go or seem to be getting worse? Then, it might be time ask your doctor if you have osteoarthritis (OA) in your spine (that runs from the neck to the lower back).

As you age, the cartilage lining the joints of your spine wears down, allowing the bones to rub together, causing back pain and stiffness. Other causes of spinal OA include injury, infection, obesity, or repeated stress (due to some work or sport activities). You’re also more likely to develop back pain related to osteoarthritis if a close relative had it. OA can form in any part of your spine and is sometimes called spondylosis.

But how do you know the difference between run of the mill back pain and osteoarthritis?

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Osteoarthritis Knee Pain Walking
Wednesday, January 4 |Arthritis Foundation

Change the Way You Walk to Ease Knee Pain with Osteoarthritis

Overloaded or unevenly loaded knee joints can causeosteoarthritis(OA), or cause your OA to get worse. Learning how to walk differently may be able to correct the loading problem and reduce your knee pain. This approach is being studied in people with medial, or inner, compartment OA — which is 10 times more common than other forms of knee OA.
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