Review and facts about osteoarthritis

Osteophytes of the cervical spine

Spondylophytes or osteophytes of the cervical spine are bony outgrowths (from Greek osteon - bone and phyton - outgrowth) that can form on any of the seven cervical vertebrae by endochondral ossification, that is, ossification of cartilage.

Marginal osteophytes of the hip joint

Often during radiography of the pelvic bones, marginal osteophytes of the hip joint are detected. These are specific pathologic growths on the articular surface where the bone is covered with cartilage.

Osteophytes of the lumbar spine

Polyosteoarthritis of the joints

Osteoarthritis, or polyosteoarthritis of the joints, is a lesion of multiple mobile joints - both intervertebral and peripheral, small and large.

Osteoarthritis of the ankle.

Disease of the joint articulating the bones of the lower leg and foot, associated with its dystrophic changes and bone and cartilage degeneration, is defined as osteoarthritis or osteoarthritis of the ankle joint.

Osteoarthritis, arterial hypertension and obesity: the problem of comorbidity

In patients with osteoarthritis (OA), in combination with the metabolic syndrome (MS), significant lipid metabolism disorders were detected, an increase in oxidative stress activity, which contributed to the degradation of the connective tissue structures of the body.

Osteoarthritis: What should the patient know?

Human joints are wonderful anatomical formations. What man-made machine can exist and work for dozens and dozens of years? To better appreciate the work of such a wonderful device, as joints, consider the following facts. If the body weight of a person is 50 kg, with each step on his knee joint, the load is more than 150 kg.

Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis

There are a number of common factors predisposing to the development of both osteoarthritis and osteoporosis - female gender, old age, genetic predisposition (familial aggregation of collagen type I gene, etc.), estrogen deficiency and vitamin D, etc.

Repair of articular cartilage and growth factors in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis

Thanks to the progress of biotechnology, in particular cloning technology, recently a growing list of growth factors, which, being anabolic factors, play an important but not completely understandable role in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis.

Effect of exercise on osteoarthritis

The popularity of jogging among the population of many countries in the world has recently attracted attention to running for long distances as a factor in the risk of developing osteoarthritis.

Review and facts about osteoarthritis

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