EULAR: Providers should counsel patients with hip, knee osteoarthritis on self-management

Patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis should receive education and counsel on self-management strategies across repeat clinical visits, according to updated recommendations from EULAR. “Hip and...

Updated EULAR recommendations for hip and knee osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) affects more than 500 million people worldwide. The disease is age-related, and usually starts to affect people in middle age. For elderly people, OA is the most common cause of...

World Arthritis Day 2023 | EULAR

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‘A call to action’: Assessing OA risk factors critical as cases to reach 1 billion by 2050

SAN DIEGO — The ability to recognize common osteoarthritis risk factors will become increasingly critical in the coming decades, as recent data project the global prevalence of the disease will reach...

Signs of Osteoarthritis in Your 20s To Watch For

Osteoarthritis in your 20s can cause painful joints, stiffness, and muscle weakness. Joint injuries and sports may increase early-onset risk.

Pain on the brain - new research on how chronic knee osteoarthritis pain affects cognitive function

New research suggests that chronic knee pain caused by osteoarthritis does not cause cognitive impairment in isolation, indicating that other factors like age, pain medication and socio-economic...

Lifestyle-based strategies ‘unlikely’ to improve exercise adherence in osteoarthritis

Strategies encouraging physical activity that are based on lifestyle, demographic, socioeconomic and disease-related factors are “unlikely” to improve exercise adherence among patients with osteoar...

Study investigates link between healthy lifestyle and death from osteoarthritis

In a study using data from the UK Biobank, 104,142 osteoarthritis patients were evaluated to determine the association between combined healthy lifestyle