Lifelong Effects of Arthritis 😕

Name: Lifelong Effects of Arthritis 😕
Uploaded: 2024-02-29T21:00:11+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Dr. Charles Mok discussing how single-joint (e.g., knee) arthritis reduces lifespan and affects mobility. Cited…

29 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Dr. Charles Mok discussing how single-joint (e.g., knee) arthritis reduces lifespan and affects mobility. Cited study estimates a lifespan reduction of about 1.8 years for people of normal weight and about 3.5 years for those who are obese. The speaker also warns that steroid joint injections may accelerate progression toward joint replacement and that hyaluronic acid injections provide limited symptomatic benefit but do not reverse arthritis.

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And studies have shown that if you have single joint arthritis, such as the knee, lower extremity arthritis, that has some impairment on mobility and it's not reversed in some way, it shortens your lifespan by 1.8 years if you're normal weight and 3 1/2 years if you're obese. That's substantial. You know, imagine if you could take a pill that could stand your life by 1.8 to 3.5 years. And if we have somebody with arthritis that's severe, they do things like joint injection of steroids. Well, the steroids just accelerate the time at which the arthritis become problematic to get a joint replacement. So that's not a good practice. Then they inject hyaluronic acid. Acid works a little bit. Some people can benefit with that, but it doesn't really reverse the arthritis.