Osteoarthritis can not be called a disease by itself. It is a fall out of many disorders which cause functional and structural failure of one or many body joints. This does not mean dysfunction of the cartilage alone but the adjoining muscles, ligaments, bone, lining of the joint and the cover of the joint.
Some of the symptoms in this condition include; stiffness of the joints, inability in moving the joints and excruciating pain in the initial signs. With over usage of the joints, the pain will only worsen. The pain generally occurs at night. Some of the joints which develop this condition are fingers, spine, hip and knees.
The Heberdeb nodes which are the joints in the fingers get swollen. This can get painful, and may get reddish coloration as well. This is common in women aged 45 years and above.
Osteoarthritis in the hip occurs mostly in men who are involved in strenuous jobs like construction work, farming, fire-fighting and so on.
Osteoarthritis in the knee which is another weight-bearing joint like the hip can occur with usage of the knees repeatedly in activities like squatting, kneeling or bending. Osteoarthritis in the spine causes bone spurs and other disorders like pinching or grouping of the nerves which in turn results in pain and weakness in the legs and arms.
Swelling is not as much as that in rheumatoid arthritis. The individual will experience stiffness and difficulty in changing a posture after being in it for a while. Little warming up will ease the pain and the stiffness as well.
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