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Showing posts with label osteoarthritis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label osteoarthritis. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Operation that stops pain and keeps your wrist moving

How procedure using staples helped cured osteoarthritis


  • Around 1.6 million people in the UK have osteoarthritis in the hand or wrist
  • Nick Busuttil, 43, from Southampton, underwent a new procedure for it
  • He explains how he can now do almost everything I could before



Around 1.6 million people in the UK have osteoarthritis in the hand or wrist. Nick Busuttil, 43, a builder and father of two from Southampton, underwent a new procedure for it.

"At the start of 2015 I noticed a lump on the inside of my right wrist. It felt quite hard and grew over the next two months to about the size of half a golf ball." Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4575614/Operation-stops-pain-keeps-wrist-moving.html

Monday, 7 April 2014

A glass of milk a day 'keeps arthritis at bay' - but only if you are a woman

  • Daily low-fat milk lowers osteoarthritis in women's knees, study found
  • Had little effect on men, cheese worsened symptoms for men and women
  • Yoghurt made little difference in men and women, Boston medics found
A glass of milk a day could help stop women's knees from creaking, claim researchers.
A new US study found women who frequently drink fat-free or low-fat milk may have less osteoarthritis in the knee. But eating cheese increased the problem in women.


Drinking milk made little difference in men, and eating yogurt did not affect progression in men or women. Osteoarthritis (OARead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2598423/A-glass-milk-day-keeps-arthritis-bay-woman.html