Dear Friends
The classification criteria for Osteoarthritis were created by ACR 30 years back. There has been a greater understanding of Osteoarthritis since then, and many advances in imaging of Osteoarthritis have occurred. We feel that progress in treatment of Osteoarthritis is suffering due to our inability to diagnose OA very early in the course of disease.
We are attaching a link for the questionnaire to elicit your opinion to know what could constitute an early diagnosis of OA. Even if you have done it redo it on the link given below.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XWGNF32
With kind regards.
Prof. S. K. Das
Dr. Urmila Dhakad
Dr. Pooja Dhaon
Please specify what you have in mInd osteoarthritis or osteoarthrosis, inflammation or degeneration of the joint. The common misuse of terminology leads to unpleasant misunderstanding, especially in English litetature.
The human knee is an excellent biological model for tracking the early natural history of osteoarthritis (OA). The medial compartment is the most common anatomic region to develop OA, esp. following damage to the medial meniscus. We have found that the pathophysiology of the knee includes Loss of Osseous Homeostasis (detectable scitigraphically by Tc 99m-MDP Bone Scan) at a time long before any structural changes (e.g. Kellgren-Lawrence Scale1-3) occur radiographically. We have shown that following treatment for a torn meniscus, if joint homeostasis can be achieved and maintained (manifested by resolution to a normal bone scan post-operatively - then the process of early OA can be completely aborted/PREVENTED!
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