A healthy diet and physical activity are important to joints health. Several factors such as traumas, wrong posture, menopause and aging can alter bone structure and trigger inflammatory processes causing articular cartilage damage and loss of the physiological balance between degradation and repair of articular cartilage; the result is pain and movement limitation.
Osteoarthrosis (OA) is the most common disease affecting joints, with a prevalence of 10% in the adult population and 50% of people over 60; younger subjects can be anyway affected, making OA the first cause of workdays loss.
Most affected joints are knee, hip and lumbar vertebras.
