UKA may be suitable for patients with moderate joint disease caused by painful osteoarthritis or traumatic injury, a history of unsuccessful surgical procedures or poor bone density that precludes other types of knee surgery.

In the ads, Mr. Nicklaus, who had hip-replacement surgery in 1999, urges patients with painful osteoarthritis in their hips to ask their doctors whether the company's new device, made from ceramics and titanium, is right for them.

Klein G, Kullich W. Short-term treatment of painful osteoarthritis of the knee with oral enzymes.

Let us say, for example, that you, like Jennifer, have painful osteoarthritis, the leading cause of disability in people over 55.

The CPMP recommended to restrict the use of nimesulide to the indications of treatment of acute pain, symptomatic treatment of painful osteoarthritis and primary dysmenorrhoea for the systemic formulations and symptomatic relief of pain associated with sprains and acute tendinitis for the topical formulation.