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More and more women are suffering from arthritis

Women are more likely to suffer from arthritis pain – and to delay treatment

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Do not delay your decision to seek treatment. Not only does the knee joint potentially become harder to repair, but you may also do permanent and irrevocable damage to the joint and it may never function as well as it used to. Don’t wait. Take control of your knee pain.

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With the US population aging, the prevalence of arthritis is expected to increase in the coming decades. In a report published by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, it is estimated that by the year 2030, 65 million adults aged 18 years or older will have doctor-diagnosed arthritis. Two-thirds will be women.⁸

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A recent study in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that while women are more likely to suffer from arthritis than men, they are three times less likely to undergo knee replacement to relieve their pain.⁷ If you’re a woman suffering from chronic knee pain, you may often notice how this pain affects your daily activities such as walking or enjoying family events, and it may even be disrupting your sleep. Yet as a woman, you may often wait to seek treatment due to the uncertainty of the recovery period and how it may impact your life and family.

When non-surgical treatments such as exercise, anti-inflammatory medications or joint fluid therapy injections no longer relieve your pain and your knee dictates what you can and cannot do, it is time to talk to your orthopaedic surgeon about knee replacement surgery.

⁷Hawker GA, Wright JG, Coyte PC, et al. Differences between men and women in the rate of use of hip and knee arthroplasty. N Engl J Med. 2000 Apr 6;342(14): 1016–1022.

⁸National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, NHIS Arthritis Surveillance (See: http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/data_statistics/national_data_nhis.htm#future)

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