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Osteoarthritis

Part of speech: Noun

The common osteoarthritis (OA) degenerative joint disorder.

Adults tend to be more resistant to diseases than young children. - 167
It is better to prevent disease than to treat it after it occurs. - 724

Key words: Arthritis, Degenerative, Degenerative-Joint-Disease, Disease, Disorder, Joint, Joint-Cartilage, Joint-Disease, Joint-Disorder, Osteoarthritis, Osteoarthrosis, Pain, Rheumatic-Disease, Stiffness

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Question: What is disease?
Answer: Disease is an illness, sickness, disorder, or abnormal condition of any body organ, structure, or system. - 241

Question: What causes diseases?
Answer: Diseases can be caused by: nutritional deficiency, poisons, parasites, bacterial infection, viruses, or genetic anomalies. - 242

Question: What is pain?
Answer: Pain is an unpleasant distressing sensation of discomfort in the body or emotional feelings. - 237

Question: What is emotional pain?
Answer: Emotional pain is feeling of irritation, despair or mental suffering. - 238

Question: What causes physical pain?
Answer: Physical Pain may be caused by injury, disease, illness, or muscle cramps and contractions. - 239

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Acetaminophen (4) The acetaminophen is a painkiller.
Arthrodesis The arthrodesis.
Arthroplasty (2) The arthroplasty joint replacement.
Arthroscopy The arthroscopy.

Bony Cyst The bony cysts.
Chondroitin Sulfate (2) The chondroitin sulfate.
Glucosamine Sulfate The glucosamine sulfate.
Steroid Injection The steroid injections.

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National Organization for Rare Disorders

Prevention, treatment and cure of rare diseases.

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Pain: MedlinePlus

Pain is a feeling triggered in the nervous system.

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WebMD Pain Management Center

The latest pain management information including treatments.

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American Pain Society

The American Pain Society is a multidisciplinary educational and scientific organization dedicated to serving people in pain.

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PAIN® - Elsevier

The official publication of the International Association for the Study of Pain and publishes original research.

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My physical pain is just too great. I can barely write this message. I feel as if I have lost my battle to walk independently. Every day after I practice walking using a walker I get searing, stabbing nerve pain down both paralyzed feet. I am in bed with nightmarish stabbing pain. Am scaring my roommate because I have needed to scream today every few minutes. I'm downing Lyrica like candy. After two days of bed rest I usually feel much better, and the pain is manageable. Well, this is it. Sometimes God does say no. I won't walk again until either I have an operation for the pain, and/or I get much better drugs. Swimming will be my exercise until I can't do that. It is cruel to encourage someone to experience this level of pain to achieve independence. I might have several years left, and I want them to be as pain free as possible since I have some freedom of choice in this regard. Hope this torture will end. - Guy Walton - 274