Osteoarthritis And Miscellaneous Rheumatism
Chronic degenerative and non-inflammatory process of a joint, of a bone characterized by cartilaginous lesions with production of osteophytes and chondrophytes and, clinically, by pain, stiffness, cracking, deformations and impatience without ever ankylosis or alteration of the effect of the general state. The progression of osteoarthritis takes place over a long period and is measured over 10 to 15 years
Osteoarthritis of the hip or coxarthrosis: due to birth malformation or specific degeneration
Osteoarthritis of the knee or gonarthrosis: occurs mainly following trauma
Cervical osteoarthritis or cervicarthrosis: in the region of the neck and of the cervical vertebrae
Lumbar osteoarthritis: of the lower back (low back pain) of the lumbar and sacral region often accompanied by blockage preventing any movement
Osteoarthritis of the ankle, elbow, fingers: (deformities called Heberden's knots and Bouchard's knots), of the thumb (or rhizarthrosis) which affects certain professions (seamstress, waiter, jeweler, computer user) or certain athletes (golf, tennis).
There are many kinds of rheumatism: RAA (acute rheumatism) - PCE (chronic progressive polyarthritis) - SPA (ankylosing spondylitis) - psoriatic arthritis - infectious rheumatism - non-microbial inflammatory rheumatism...
75% of osteoarthritis consider their pain disabling and the prescribed painkillers aggravate the disability.
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