Osteoarthritis can be a very debilitating condition, depending on the severity of symptoms. It can certainly affect a person’s lifestyle, for example pain in the main joints of the lower limbs can severely limit mobility while pain in the hands and fingers can affect many day-to-day activities.
As we get older our bodies suffer more and more from wear and tear. Years of working and leading an active life can begin to take its toll giving you aches and pains all over. Physiotherapy is a good way to relieve and lessen some of these every day aches, allowing elderly patients to continue leading an active lifestyle.
But sometimes old age can bring more than just the aches and pains of a body well used. Elderly citizens often find themselves suffering from arthritis, the stiffening of the joints. This can be extremely painful at times and increasingly demobilising as time goes on. Age is a key factor when considering the likelihood of developing a form of arthritis making a common problem for elderly people.