By contrast, the group included in this study had early knee OA with mild symptoms. Interventions that target early-stage disease could be particularly important to limit the progression of ...

arthroscopic lavage seems to provide only short-term benefit to selected patients with mild radiographic OA and effusion. In addition, arthroscopic debridement should not be used as a routine ...

Among workers with OA, severity was rated as mild, moderate, and severe by 45.0%, 45.9%, and 9.1% of individuals, respectively. Demographic and clinical characteristics are shown in Table 1.

And development of even mild multimorbidity, with a mean of three chronic conditions, was heightened with a previous OA diagnosis (RR 1.29, 95% CI 1.12-1.48). "Our findings strongly indicate that ...