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Arthritis sufferers are bombarded by offers of supplements that are claimed to relieve the symptoms and reverse the effects of their arthritis. In fact, the supplement industry has introduced more than 800 claimed remedies for arthritis. So how are you to know which ones may really work, and which only separate you from your money? The medical [...] A 2 year study conducted by Dutch researchers has concluded that glucosamine does not provide any improvement on pain, function or disease progression in patients with hip osteoarthritis. 222 people were involved in the study conducted by Dr. Rianne M. Rozendaal at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Half of them were randomly assigned 1,500 [...] Researchers from Rush Medical College conducted a study into the effects of various types of footwear on knee osteoarthritis (OA). What they found was that shoes which allowed natural foot motion and flexibility are more favorable on the knees. Much research points to unusually high loading of the knees (high amounts of stress on part or all [...] Osteoarthritis (OA) can occur in any joint but is most common in the knee. The load placed on the knee determines how quickly the disease progresses. A 20 percent increase in the load on the knee is associated with increasing the risk of progression of osteoarthritis by 600%. Two common recommendations for knee OA patients to [...] The Arthritis Foundation recently came out with its list of the top 10 arthritis events for the year 2007. This series will focus on those events. #6: Development of a woven mesh for cartilage engineering Researchers have been looking for a way to create cartilage that can be used to replace cartilage that has been damaged by arthritis. [...] |
  
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