Arthritis occurs when you feel pain and stiffness in your body causing you to have a difficult time moving around. All most all forms of arthritis can cause pain and swelling in your joints. Your joints are the places where two bones come together, like at your knee or elbow. With the passage of time, a swollen joint can become severely damaged requiring arthritis treatment.

Types of Arthritis Include:

• Osteoarthritis - caused by aging or injury

• Rheumatoid arthritis - is when your immune system attacks your own body's tissues

• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis - the application of the disease that occurs in children

People who suffer from arthritis have had to have knee and hip replacement and other joint replacement surgeries while others have found relief from symptoms with Botox injections.

Signs that Surgery May Be Needed

• If pain is so intense that it keeps you awake at night.

• All forms of pain medication that you've tried failed to alleviate your pain.

• You can no longer participate in normal activities because of the pain - the pain stops your quality of life.

• The pain in your joints stops you from getting out of a chair, you can no longer climb stairs, and it's even painful just to get off the toilet, then it's time to consider surgery.

Types of Surgery Include

• A bone fusion called arthrodesis

• Arthroscopy most often performed on knees and shoulders

• Rebuilding of joints by arthroplasty

• Correcting bone deformity by an osteotomy

• Removing part or all of a bone is called osteotomy

• Replacing joints with artificial one's is called revision joint surgery

• Removing synovium or tissues lining the joints is call synovectomy

• Total joint replacement

• Knee Replacement

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