OSTEOARTRITIS

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OSTEOARTRITIS

The osteoartritis or artrosis, is also known with the name osteoartrosis, artrosis, degenerative artropatía, disease to articulate degenerative or hipertrófica arthritis and affects approximately to one of each 10 greater people of 60 years. It is commonest in the men until of 45 years and later one appears with greater incidence in the women.

It is important to emphasize that osteoartritis, reumatoide arthritis and osteoporosis are different diseases.

It is chronic, degenerative, incurable but controlable and extremely painful a disease, that is characterized by the degeneration or wears away of the cartilage of the joints and the formation of osteofitos that are neoformation of osificado cartilage.

The osteoartritis causes inflammation, pain and rigidity in one or more joints of the hip body, being most frequent those, roll and spine, although also it affects the hand, the neck, the elbows, ankles and the base of the big toe.

When arthritis is developed, the cartilage, material that interposes between the ends of the bones, is destroyed at a speed greater than the capacity of the organism to repair it. As the cartilage is worn away, the ends of the bones are exposed more and more and finished being damaged.

Algunós medical thinks that many cases could be avoided controlling on weight, doing moderate daily exercise and changing the form to make daily tasks.

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