weight-bearing joint

Being overweight places significant pressure on weight-bearing joints, such as the knee and hip.

When the foot is repeatedly injured, the weight-bearing joints start breaking down.

If people live long enough, most of them will develop some degree of arthritis, especially in their weight-bearing joints.

Excess weight places extra stress on weight-bearing joints, such as the knees and hips.

OA is a degenerative joint disease; weight-bearing joints simply wear themselves out.

Tenderness and/or swelling in weight-bearing joints such as the hips and knees.

Osteoarthritis typically affects the weight-bearing joints, such as the back, spine, and pelvis.

It can affect almost any joint in the body but commonly involves the weight-bearing joints: the knees, hips, and spine.

Stronger thigh muscles, for example, take some of the stress off of weight-bearing joints such as knees and hips.

The disorder can affect the hands, hips, or spine, but it strikes the knees, the body's primary weight-bearing joints, most frequently.

Even modest weight loss has been shown to reduce symptoms of osteoarthritis by easing the strain on weight-bearing joints.

"Overweight people usually develop accelerated osteoarthritis in their weight-bearing joints like hips and knees, so one of the treatment strategies is to lose weight."

In most cases, osteoarthritis develops in the weight-bearing joints of the knees, hips, or spine.

Swimming laps, water aerobics and other aquatic exercises are especially helpful, because they involves minimal stress on weight-bearing joints.

Therapists can teach techniques to avoid excessive force being applied on non-weight-bearing joints and to avoid unnecessary impact on weight-bearing joints.

Osteoarthritis can occur in any joint, but most often affects the hands and weight-bearing joints such as the knee, hip, and facet joints (in the spine).

On the other hand, because activities like swimming put less stress on weight-bearing joints, many people can do them for longer periods, making up for the lower caloric burn.

In osteoarthritis, larger weight-bearing joints such as hips and knees usually have the worst damage, and the problem joint may be on one side of the body but not the other.

Polyethylene synovitis - Wear of the weight-bearing surfaces: polyethylene is thought to wear in weight-bearing joints such as the hip at a rate of 0.3mm per year.

If your weight-bearing joints (such as hips and knees) are affected, it often results in more problems than if you have osteoarthritis in non-weight-bearing joints, such as your fingers.

Symptoms begin gradually and are often limited to one set of joints, usually the finger joints closest to the fingernails or the thumbs, large weight-bearing joints (hips, knees), or the spine.

The nerve damage may cause minor pain and then a loss of sensation that increases the risk of injury to the feet; when the foot is repeatedly injured, the weight-bearing joints start breaking down.

The complexity of the design of the knee joint and the fact that it is an active weight-bearing joint are factors in making the knee one of the most commonly injured joints.

Usually the smaller joints are affected in polyarticular JIA, such as the fingers and hands, although weight-bearing joints such as the knees, hips, and ankles may also be affected.

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