Exempel på osteoarthritis

• Indications for surgery were considered appropriate in 59% of cases, uncertain in 32%, and inappropriate in 8%, mainly in the osteoarthritis group.

• Nowhere is there a simple exposition of what osteoarthritis is.

• This chapter observes that drug companies are at long last taking a real interest in drugs which might protect the joints against progressive osteoarthritis.

• At t1 the proportion of persons taking medication was lowest for osteoarthritis (26.8 %) and highest for stroke (90.0 %).

• Given that numerous painful conditions, such as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and neuropathies, are more common with age, this finding is perhaps counterintuitive.

• However, it results in deformation of bones and joints causing a painful secondary osteoarthritis.

• At t2 the proportion of persons taking prescribed medication was lowest for cirrhosis (25.0 %) and osteoarthritis (35.9 %), and highest for stroke (100 %).

• Determinants of willingness-to-pay for hip and knee joint replacement surgery for osteoarthritis.

• Examples of nociceptive pain include cancer pain from bone or tissue invasion, or non-cancer pain secondary to degenerative bone and joint disease or osteoarthritis.

• Of the arthritic diseases, osteoarthritis or degenerative joint disease, gout, and ankylosing spondylitis are all well-established in antiquity.

• There are several organisations promoting research into osteoarthritis and encouraging public understanding of the disease.

• Should osteoarthritis be treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs?

• However, in most patients pain is caused by secondary osteoarthritis.

• There is evidence showing the effectiveness of both home-based and class-based exercise programs (10;14;15) in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.

• When they applied their algorithm, the inappropriateness rates ranged from 4.4% to 15.8%, similar to those found in the osteoarthritis group in the present study.