Battling Arthritis

The following email, I got from Julia Gaynor. Read on:

Hi Gloria,

I know you cover arthritis on your blog and think this will be of interest. The number of knee replacements done annually in the U.S. will jump 525% by 2030. And the money spent on these procedures is expected to reach $65.2 billion by 2015; Medicare and Medicaid programs pay for about 60% of U.S. joint replacements.

The increasing cost to hospitals and the ever-growing number of people in debilitating pain is driving the orthopedic industry to devise more cost-effective solutions. Now, instead of one-size-fits-many or gender-specific implants, ConforMIS, Inc. has created proprietary iFit Technology to convert MRI and CT Scans into personalized, patient-specific, minimally invasive implants and accompanying instrumentation, which replaces $25,000 worth of traditional instrumentation.

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A non-invasive imaging method - chemical exchange saturation method (gagCEST) - that will be useful in the diagnosis and monitoring of some diseases such as osteoarthritis (OA) and inter-vertebral disc degeneration, has been developed by researchers at New York and Tel Aviv Universities.

The said procedure can detect OA and inter-vertebral disc degeneration in their early stages based on the glycosaminogycans (GAGs) concentration. More →

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Arthroscopic surgery (arthroscopy) is a procedure wherein damaged tissue from joints are removed.

Therefore, technically speaking, this procedure should relieve arthritic knees for example. More →

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