Is osteoarthritis a inflammatory disorder?
No, it’s a non-inflammatory disorder
What does osteoarthritis involve?
primarily affecting weight-bearing joints of the peripheral and axial skeleton
deterioration and changes to the articular cartilage result in formation of new bone at the joint surfaces
What are the risk factors associated with osteoarthritis?
Age Gender Obesity Activities Genetics Race Osteoporosis
What are the risk factors for osteoarthritis associated with age?
Not a cause, but incidence increase with increased age.
Affects almost 50% of those >65 years of age
Almost all over 75 years of age
What are the risk factors for osteoarthritis associated with gender?
2:1 older women to older men with OA of the knee and hand.
What are the risk factors for osteoarthritis associated with obesity?
Increased body weight strongly associated with hip, knee, and hand OA
Increased body mass = increased risk of OA because of increased weight on weight-bearing joints.
Losing as little as 5 Kg can decrease the risk by up to 50 % of developing symptomatic OA.
What are the risk factors for osteoarthritis associated with activities?
Activities involving repetitive motion or injury are at increased risk. Work, sports and trauma have been implicated in OA.
If daily repetitive use: then duration and intensity play a major part in OA.
Trauma to the joint resulting in loss of ligament integrity and damage to the meniscus can lead to OA.
What are the risk factors for osteoarthritis associated with genetics?
Involved in certain types of OA. Genetic links that alter the cartilage matrix can lead to premature OA.
What are the risk factors for osteoarthritis associated with race?
Knee OA twice as likely in black women compared to white women
What are the risk factors for osteoarthritis associated with osteoporosis?
There may be an inverse relationship associated with OA of the knee and hip. Less dense bone may better distribute the load across the joint, slowing the development of OA. This is a controversial theory.
What does cartilage provide?
Low-friction surface covering the concave and convex ends of the bone to provide a load support and shock absorbing and smooth gliding surface during movement.
What is the major function of cartilage?
Enable movement within required ROM
Distribute loading across joint tissues, to prevent damage
Stabilize joint during use
Cartilage is avascular, aneural, and alymphatic
What is involved in the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis?
What is primary (idiopathic) osteoarthritis?
Failure of the cartilage in the absence of any known underlying predisposing factor
What are the most common types of primary osteoarthritis?
Localized OA (one or two sites) Generalized OA (3 or more sites)
What is erosive OA?
Presence of erosion and marked proliferattion in proximal and distal interphalangeal joints of hands
What is secondary osteoarthritis?
OA that occurs due to other disease states or trauma, i.e. metabolic or endocrine disorders or congenital factors
What is the ACR criteria for OA?
Presence of pain
Bony changes on exam
Normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate
Characteristic radiographs
What is the ACR criteria for Hip OA?
Hip pain plus 2 of the following
ESR <20 mm/hour
Radiographic femoral or acetabular osteophytes
Radiographic joint space narrowing
What is the ACR criteria for knee OA?
Knee pain and radiographic osteophytes plus one of the following
Age greater than 50
Morning stiffness of 30 minutes or less
Crepitus on motion
What are the clinical symptoms of OA?
What is found on PE for OA?
Pain, tenderness, decreased range of motion, +/-inflammation. Asymmetrical involvement
Feet: Pain, tenderness, stiffness of MTP joint.
What is found on PE for hands for OA?
Heberden’s nodes -bony enlargements (osteophytes) of the DIP joints. Heberden’s nodes usually develop slowly, nonpainful, lateral and medial aspects of joint.
Bouchard’s nodes-bony enlargements of the PIP joints.
What is found on PE for the feet for OA?
Pain, tenderness, stiffness of MTP joint.