About Osteoarthritis

What is Osteoarthritis?

Osteoarthritis is a chronic or progressive disease that affects the joints and surrounding structures. Osteoarthritis tends to develop with age with people over forty-five being more likely to feel the effects of this chronic disease. As a degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis is associated with inflammation and deterioration of the cartridge on the ends of your bones, which wear down over time.

While osteoarthritis can affect younger people, people over 45 years, are more at risk. Signs of the disease include severe pain and a reduction in your ability to perform certain tasks and activities. In older people, reduced movement can also lead to falls resulting in fractures and other injuries.

There is no cure for osteoarthritis. Regular and appropriate exercise is considered one of the best ways to manage osteoarthritis.

While the symptoms of osteoarthritis can vary, the more common symptoms include stiffness, joint pain and instability. Hard lumps, known as bone spurs around the joint, reduced range of movement, and grating or grinding of the joint are also signs.

In treating osteoarthritis, stem cell therapy

is offering new hope, because it is the first treatment that promises to regenerate damaged tissue. Effective stem cell therapy can provide a real alternative to surgery.

Surgery can involve local anaesthetic, or general anaesthesia, a hospital stay and an extended period of recovery and rehabilitation.

Consider effective stem cell therapy

  • as an alternative intervention before knee replacement,
  • prior to or alongside arthroscopic surgery; or
  • to enhance the outcome of surgery when patients feel they have not realised the full benefit of their surgery.

As part of an integrated approach to osteoarthritis

at Life Uncoded, we advise people to undertake stem cell therapies as part of an integrated approach to managing their osteoarthritis and health in order give this treatment the highest chance of success.

This can include appropriate movement and exercise, losing weight, osteopathy, and remedial massage, and understanding how to improve your dietary intake, including alcohol, to help minimise the effects of osteoarthritis.