Osteoarthritis and the slow war with immobility

Osteoarthritis is, to put it simply, the degradation of joints. It’ll slowly cripple a person and agonise them all the way towards this bitter end, it’s not a condition which you’d wish on anyone and it’s largely associated with getting older. One of the main issues with treating such a condition is that doctors don’t know that much about it. There’ve been exhaustive tests into the clinical causes of the condition and just what causes the bones and joints to degrade as they do in the first place but simpler things like, why it’s such a painful condition are still unknowns to the modern medicine.

A study was recently started, based around that very thing. Scientists want to understand the cause and route of pain through the body, when especially want to know why a condition which is centred on joins can have just a radical effect on our nerves. Osteoarthritis can cause a hyper sensitivity in the skin you see, this can get so bad that sufferers might actually find that having something as soft and light as a cotton bud brushed across their skin causes them pain.
The research is still being done but some results have come forwards. Most of these are lost in the scientific jargon and would mean very little to most of us, essentially they’re very wordy ways of saying nothing. Scientists are ever so good and protracting the statement ‘we learnt very little’, but such is there prerogative.

What sufferers of this condition will find reassuring is that the research is occurring and more and more resources are being poured into finding the underlying factors of osteoarthritis. Not only are scientists trying to find clinical causes, they’re looking into the roots of the pain itself.