National Arthritis Awareness Month: What is Arthritis?
Joe Crosby • May 21, 2020
What is Arthritis of the Foot and Ankle?
Transcript
Dr. Austin Hewlett
As you may or may not be aware, May is National A rthritis Awareness Month,
so this month i'm going to be providing
you with a series of short videos
where we talk about arthritis. I hope you
find these videos not only informative
but helpful.
What is arthritis?
Arthritis is essentially when a joint
doesn't function correctly. W
e're going to simplify things and look
at arthritis as two types of arthritis. 1) T
here are systemic arthritis, things like
rheumatoid arthritis where your body actually
attacks its own cartilage,
and 2) there's good old-fashioned wear and
tear arthritis. Today
we're going to talk about good
old-fashioned wear and tear arthritis
and call it osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis occurs in people who
participate in activities where they're
repeatedly doing something
or overusing a joint. Let's consider
somebody who plays a sport
where they're constantly jumping up and
down or
an individual who participates or is
employed in the field where they are
constantly required to bend
and squat. People who do these things are
going to
overuse and wear out the joints of their
foot
and ankle. These are the types of people
who can get osteoarthritis of
their foot and ankle.
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