EIn France, ten million people suffer from osteoarthritis, and many of them are undergoing inappropriate treatment. There are many misconceptions about how to treat this condition. Here are three common mistakes to avoid.
Mistake #1: believing that pain reflects the condition of the cartilage
In my daily practice, I often see a paradox: some patients suffer greatly even though their x-rays are almost normal, while others show advanced osteoarthritis on imaging but suffer little.
Numerous studies have shown no direct relationship between pain and imaging. Osteoarthritis pain depends not only on what is seen in the image, but on many factors: the state of the surrounding tissue, the inflammatory mechanism…
