KINE 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sarcopenia, Bursitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
6 Apr 2016
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Risk factors: family history, age (as you grow older, exercise (over usage of joints, surfaces (turf, running outside on roads instead of sidewalk, injury (soccer tackles, falls can develop arthriis later on in life, footwear, overweight. Treatment: losing weight, physical acivity, therapies, drugs (for pain as well, and too many of these drugs can cause internal bleeding, ulers) Couple years ago medicaion called cox2 or celebrex vioxx introduced and is used to treat arthriis: herbal treatments. Even if it doesn"t actually work, if the paient believes that it works, then it works: surgery arthroscopic. Clean out carilage, so that you don"t have bone rubbing on bone. A lot of people call this fake surgery because it"s not very invasive: joint replacement (hip, knee) Best ime to do this is when you have signiicant pain, but not to the point where you are completely disabled.
