Osteoarthritis Knee

Osteoarthritis is a disease of normal wear and tear of joints. There can be many causes of Osteoarthritis from trauma to infection but the most common cause of Osteoarthritis is old age.

Like any other machine parts with increasing age our joints wear out and this wear and tear of joints leads to pain and deformity if patient has symptoms for long duration.

Knee osteoarthritis is most commonly seen and you can even see old age people walking with deformed knees. Most common deformity is one where the knees goes away from each other while ankles come close to each other as shown in the photograph with his x-ray image.

This happens in advance stages where only option of treatment left is Knee replacement.

Don't let your knee arthritis become so severe. Consult our orthopaedic surgeon now to know more and understand this disease.