(Reuters) - Elite male athletes who participate in high-contact sports such as football, soccer and rugby have a higher risk of developing knee and hip osteoarthritis than men who exercise little or not at all, a Swedish study found. There was a doubled risk in soccer and handball players, and a tripled risk in ice hockey players, added the researchers, whose study was published in the American ...

Do the stiff and painful joints of arthritis restrict your activities? If so, you join the ranks of 27 million Americans who live with the degenerative disease known as osteoarthritis.

Moe Skoropad knows what it’s like to live with pain. He suffers from rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. He was diagnosed with the disease in 2009, but said he suffered from symptoms since the early 1990s.

Arthritis of the knee is affecting Americans at younger ages, new research has found, but shedding excess weight may reduce people’s risk. The preliminary studies were to be presented Saturday at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting, in Chicago. Almost 6.5 million Americans between the ages of 35 and 84 will receive a diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis in the next decade, according ...

Compared with osteoarthritis patients, individuals with rheumatoid arthritis who undergo total knee replacement surgery have lower expectations about their post-surgical outcomes, according to a new study. These reduced expectations, which may be unnecessary, could cause some patients to slack on their post-surgical rehabilitation leading to worse outcomes, say doctors.