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Basic Principles in Osteoarthritis Treatment

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Osteoarthritis

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As the most common form of joint disease, osteoarthritis (OA) represents a major cause of morbidity and disability, as well as a significant burden on healthcare resources. Medical interventions can be directed to different stages of the disease process: primary prevention, screening at an asymptomatic stage to avoid progression to overt disease, and treatment of an established condition. Although important advances in understanding the pathophysiological process of osteoarthritis have been made through epidemiology, biomechanics and molecular level studies, we are still mainly involved in treating the established disease [1] and this will be the principal focus of this chapter.

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Choquette, D., Raynauld, J.P., Rich, E. (1999). Basic Principles in Osteoarthritis Treatment. In: Osteoarthritis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60026-5_18

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