Women with knee osteoarthritis (OA) experience more pain and inflammation than men, according to a new study led by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and The Rockefeller University.
Although noninflammatory arthritis, such as osteoarthritis (Figure 1), is the predominant etiology behind these MSK symptoms, inflammatory arthritis can also occur within this population.
During pregnancy, 21 of the 25 women - 79 percent of the RA patients and 100 percent of the JIA patients - experienced improvement or remission of inflammatory arthritis symptoms. Among these ...
Noninflammatory arthritis still causes inflammation in the joints, but it is usually less intense and is a reaction to damage in the joint. There are some differences in how the symptoms can feel ...
The attack causes inflammation, which is the source of RA symptoms like pain, swelling ... contraceptive for longer than seven years had a nearly 20% decreased risk of the most common type of ...
JIA is a form of arthritis in children ages 16 or younger. It causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than 6 weeks. The disease may affect a few joints or many joints. It may cause symptoms ...
Nicky Richardson ignored four persistent symptoms for almost a decade, but when she recently received an autoimmune disease diagnosis, everything made sense. The 42-year-old is using her TikTok ...
An estimated 1.3 million adults in the U.S. live with RA, and it is twice as common in women as men ... With rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system attacks its own body, causing pain and inflammation ...
Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began ...