Educate yourself and learn more about your complication

What is Osteoarthritis?

Osteoarthritis, also referred to as degenerative joint disease, or spondylarthritis, the most common form of arthritis. Osteoarthritis occurs when cartilage in the joints begins to wear down. Cartilage plays a critical role in cushioning the area between the joints.

Osteoarthritis can affect any joint in the body, although it most commonly affects joints in the spine, hands, hips and knees, Several joints may be affected. Although most people consider osteoarthritis to be inevitable during one’s lifetime, proper clinical management and treatment With KKI Suggests that we may be able to stall, if not reverse, the impact of this deteriorating condition.

Our longer life span has made osteoarthritis an ever more common condition. Maintaining a precisely balanced body can preserve mobility and slow down or even reverse the elements of degeneration.

Signs of Potential Concern

  • Grating or cracking sensation on movement of the head, neck and joints
  • Limited movement or stiffness in the neck or lower back
  • General feeling of stiffness
  • Stiffness in morning prior to hot shower or movement
  • Overall loss in flexibility
  • Pain in the neck and back as well as other joints for more than six weeks
  • General feeling or sensation of getting shorter

WHY IS SPINAL OSTEOARTHRITIS MORE OF A CONCERN?

Unlike any other region of the boy the spine, when afflicted by osteoarthritis or any other injury or disease, impacts our very core. This is due to the intimate relationship the spine has with the central nervous system (i.e. spinal cord and brain).

Before age 45 osteoarthritis occurs more frequently in males. After age 55 pears it occurs more frequently in females. A recent study detected osteoarthritis in 10% of children under the age of ten. Once considered to be age-related and normal, studies like this as well as the clinical research being done at KKT are helping us to appreciate how early diagnosis and treatment can reduce the impact of the lifelong limitations once associated with the disease

Medical Appointments

Start your Treatment Journey with KKT Orthopedic Spine Center