Cox-2 is an enzyme, cyclooxygenase-2, that increases in arthritic joints, causing pain and inflammation.

In this video, Mayo explains how physical therapy can help strengthen arthritic joints.

He continues to be in poor health, however, with shaking hands and arthritic joints.

The jolt seemed to shoot pain through his arthritic joints.

But the 25 patients who did not wear gold rings had equally arthritic joints in the fingers of both hands.

He was not used to seeing people with wrinkled skin and arthritic joints and old scars.

With rheumatoid arthritis, for example, children may have lower than expected bone mass, especially near arthritic joints.

Thank you once more for exacerbating the pain in my arthritic joints.

By not moving arthritic joints, however, the stiffness and pain only get worse.

Accompanying symptoms are those common to arthritic joints, such as local pain and stiffness in the neck.