Signs & Symptoms of Osteoarthritis

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of expert village today I am going to talk to you about the subject of osteoarthritis. Now we got to talk about signs and symptoms, cause definition and ways to alleviate the pain of osteoarthritis when you get it. But in this clip we are going to look at signs and symptoms now most patients or people when they have osteoarthritis will come in complaining of nodes or what we call lumps or protuberance from digits of the joints for example most commonly you will see it on fingers and toes most commonly on the big toe. So let me draw for you quickly if a person comes in and they have a say these are her, this is a thumb and this is the fingers then most likely you are going to get these protuberance or lumps on the joints of the fingers. Here there. They'll come in and is really painful and they can't move their hands or in, like I said, their big toes most commonly on their big toes on the side of their big toe and these are painful nodes painful in the area affected and also the patients will complain of pain overall specifically in the joints cause osteoarthritis effects the knee the arm the elbows and the cervical spine. Like I said, here's the cervical spine they are going to see inflammation sometimes you're going to see inflammation of the joint area it's going to be stiffness the patients going to complain of stiffness they're going to complain about of this what we call crepitus which is a sound that you get because the joints actually rubbing together the friction when they are walking or they are mobile the joints make this crepitus sound scratchy scratchy wood sound together they are going to complain of decrease of range of motion they can't for example really swing their arms around or extend their legs to a certain degree. And the pain is worsen by activity or weight bearing exercises, so these are some of the signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis"