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How Does Viscosupplementation Therapy Help In Degenerative Joint Disease?

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Degenerative joint disease or joint degeneration is also known as osteoarthritis. It’s known as “wear and tear” arthritis because joints wear down, enabling bones to rub against each other. Individuals with degenerative joint disease often have pain, stiffness, and swollen joints. It can turn so debilitating that your daily tasks become difficult. How It Happens? …

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What is Lupus?

What is Lupus?

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Lupus is a chronic autoimmune condition involving multi-system inflammation. Etiology (cause or organ of disease) is unknown.  In Lupus, your immune system cannot differentiate between foreign invaders like viruses or bacteria and your body’s healthy tissue.  Consequently, it creates auto-antibodies that attack and destroy healthy tissue and causes inflammation, pain and damage in various part …

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What is Viscosupplementation?

What is Viscosupplementation?

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What is Viscosupplementation? “Visco” is short for viscosity, while supplementation means adding viscous gel to the joint that  supplements the joint  current volume of fluid It is a medical procedure during which gel-like lubricating fluid is injected into a joint to supplement the viscous properties of synovial fluid, also called hyaluronic acid injection or sodium …

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