Stages Of Osteoarthritis Knee


There are 4 stages of Osteoarthritis knee and its depending on Radiology (x-ray) of knee joint in standing.

Whenever Any patient with knee pain due to old age visit us we will get a standing knee x-ray after clinical examination. Then according to x-ray we will grade the Osteoarthritis and advice our patient to get relieved from knee pain.

Stages of OA knee :

Grade 1 :There's Mild Medial Joint space reduction and clinically pain is on & off and pain on doing some activities only 

Grade 2 : There's pain while doing most of the activity and decrease in  the joint space but no osteophyte ( extra bone ) formation 

Grade 3 : There's continuous pain and discomfort as well as on xray bone on bone arthritis and osteophyte formation 

Grade 4 : In this stage patient has rest pain that means while sleeping and sitting also pain is there and deformity of the knee and affected lower limb. On x-ray there's bone on bone arthritis , deformity of knee , osteophyte formation and occasionally bone loss also there and patient have flexion as well as varus deformity.

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