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Overview
History
Symptoms
The symptoms of osteoarthritis (OA) usually starts around age 40. The number of symptoms and their degree vary from one patients to another.
- Pain: The most important and common symptom of OA is pain in involved joint. The joint pain usually felt around the diseased joint; but, in some cases the pain may be felt in other areas than the involved area for example, in hip OA, the patients may actually feel pain in their lower thigh or at the knee. Also, Normally the activity and rest would increase and decrease the pain but in progressed cases, the patients may also experience pain at night or at rest.
- Stiffness: Morning joint stiffness, as another common symptoms usually resolves during the first 30 minutes of waking up in morning, but it could be reoccur during the day within the periods of resting and inactivity.
- Limited range of motion
- Joint tenderness
- Swelling (Effusion): OA also could cause joint swelling which caused by the excessive amount of fluid in the joint.
- Crackling or grating sensation (Crepitus): OA may also cause a crackling or grating sensation sounds during the joint movement named crepitus. This sensation is due to the roughening of the normal surfaces of the involved joint.
- Bony outgrowths (Osteophytes): OA often cause osteophytes which is the outgrowing of bone or bone spurs. These protuberances can be found under the skin around the involved joints and they also might enlarge by the diseases progression.
- Specific joint symptoms : Since OA could affect all joints then each involved joint may have its own specific symptoms. As previously mentioned OA the hands and fingers, knees, hips are the most common sites of this invovlment but it rarely could involve the Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and ankle.
- Hips: Patient experience pain in their groin area or buttocks and even inside of their knee or thigh.
- Knees: Patient experience pain when moving their knee which is called “grating” or “scraping” sensation.
- Fingers: Patient experience pain at the base of their thumb and their fingers to become swollen, tender and red; because of the Bony growths (spurs) at the edge of their joints.
- Feet: Patient experience pain in their large at the base of their big toe. Also the might experience the swelling in their ankles or toes.