Authors
Ahmad Reza Jamshidi
Description
Osteoarthritis, which also called arthritis, is the most morbid articular diseases from which more than 20 million patients suffer in US. Osteoarthritis is assumed as the foremost reason for chronic disability in patient older than age 70 and it creates more than 100 million USD of cost for US (1).
Osteoarthritis may be deemed as a degenerative disease that occurs due to biochemical degeneration of cartilage (hyaline) of joint in synovial space. Nonetheless, it is mentioned today that Osteoarthritis is not only the disease of articular cartilage and it also includes total joint such as subchondral and synovial bone. Osteoarthritis generally makes the joints involved that tolerate body weight including knees, pelvis, backbones, and lower foot joints.