Talk:Osteoarthritis

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I have begun editing and adding to this article, feel free to edit and condribute. User:Gilgameshfuel, Nov. 16, 2004.

I certainly will. Could you use Wikimarkup for headings please (==Symptoms==). Also: listing all NSAIDs is an unnecessary thing - there are hundreds of preprarations, and providing a link should be good enough.

Also please consider that news articles (Reuters Health) are usually based on studies in medical journals. If Reuters is good, they should provide the actual reference. JFW | T@lk 09:14, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Congenital hip luxation - if the article does not exist then you shouldn't remove the red link but write the article! It is a major health problem, and relatively simple to diagnose. In countries with regular child-health follow-up, the Ortolani test is often performed as a screening test, with ultrasound as second line. Treatment is simple, with plaster cast immobilisation. JFW | T@lk 09:45, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your help Jdwolff, this was my first attempt at editing. Your help is appreciated. User:Gilgameshfuel 17 Nov 2004

Thanks for the work; I finally got around to writing some more about OA. In medical articles, I generally avoid addressing the reader in person. The reader may be a grandchild of a patient and not like instructions how to cope with OA :-). JFW | T@lk 12:52, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Feel free to delete that section if you see best, and thanks once again. I have had severe OA for three years now. User:Gilgameshfuel 18 Nov 2004

1 Changes
2 Regarding treatment of OA
3 Healing
4 Heritability

[edit] Changes

With diff not working 100% I am not sure how much was changed, but PM Poon (talk • contribs) has effectively rewritten the whole page! Most of it sounds like reasonable edits, but use of edit summaries would have been helpful.

Is anyone willing to tidy up the references? JFW | T@lk 11:41, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

maybe hip luxation should be congenital hip subluxation?

a discussion of common x-ray findings would be helpful.

[edit] Regarding treatment of OA

In the article it is mentioned a primary and secondary type of OA, but these types are not distinguised between when stating that there is no cure for OA. As far as I know, this is not correct. If OA is caused by trauma to the joint (not caused by a degenerative disease), there is options for treatment such as Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation. Whether this procedure is feasible probably depends on how far the OA has gotten, i.e. the condition of the remaining cartilage. I don't know enough about this topic to add this to the article, anyone who does? Hildre 10:19, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

OA affects nearly 21 million people in the United States, accounting for 25% of visits to primary care physicians, and half of all NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) prescriptions. It is estimated that 80% of the population will have radiographic evidence of OA by age 65, although only 60% of those will be symptomatic (Green 2001).

Can someone update this with global data instead of just the US.

What about steem cells? I think some people are working on this kind of surgery in different countries. Can anyone specify something else? --ZUIA2 23:08, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Healing

Here are c. 10 summarized healing reports from osteoarthritis (through healing on the spiritual path): http://www.bruno-groening.org/english/heilungen/defaultheilungen.htm (go to chapter 10)

Kind regards, Dave

-- 83.173.234.146 20:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)