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By CreakyStaff
According to new research, obesity -- both in childhood and adulthood -- increases the risk of hip and knee osteoarthritis.
By CreakyStaff
Lower levels of physical performance and more severe disease are associated with higher levels of depression in knee osteoarthritis patients.
By CreakyStaff
A new study indicates that two infusions of zoledronic acid -- one per year -- didn’t greatly reduce pain or bone marrow damage in knee osteoarthritis patients.
By Ryan Rankin
Every Saturday morning for over six years, some of my friends and I would meet at Alice Marble Park and play basketball. It’s a beautiful park on a hill in San Francisco, overlooking the bay and Golden Gate Bridge on...
By Ryan Rankin
Every Saturday morning for over six years, some of my friends and I would meet at Alice Marble Park and play basketball. It’s a beautiful park on a hill in San Francisco, overlooking the bay and Golden Gate Bridge on...
By Ryan Rankin
Writing about living with osteoarthritis has allowed me to meet great people, share my experiences with others, and better understand how people are dealing with similar issues. Recently, because of my affiliation with CreakyJoints as an osteoarthritis (OA) blogger, I...
By CreakyStaff
It easy to understand why chronic pain and depression often go hand-in-hand, and now Japanese researchers, writing in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, have found that knee osteoarthritis patients are likelier to develop depression. Of 573 osteoarthritis patients,...
By CreakyStaff
Osteoarthritis patients, compared to the general public, experience depressive symptoms at a rate of 20 percent, writes journalist Carina Stanton in the newsmagazine The Rheumatologist.
By Ryan Rankin
At 28, I was diagnosed with early onset, chronic osteoarthritis in my right ankle. Now, at 39, I’ve been through two surgeries, countless hours of physical therapy and I’m facing the very real possibility of an ankle fusion in the...
By CreakyStaff
Beth Jersey is a home gardener. “Mostly roses, irises, and dahlias,” says the payroll manager at a S.F. nonprofit. But after undergoing ligament reconstruction surgery, called basal joint surgery, to treat osteoarthritis in her thumb, she experienced such extreme pain...
