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Neurological and muscle skeletal function
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Case 1
Osteoarthritis is an illness of degeneration of joint cartilage tissue and deteriorating of the
whole joint. It mainly takes place in the hands, hips, and knees. Osteoporosis refers to a condition
where the bones become fragile. Osteoporosis involves the loss of bone mass, causing the risk of
fracturing. The difference is that osteoarthritis is joint inflammation, while osteoporosis is the
degeneration of joints. One of the risk factors is old age. The disease affects mostly older people,
and the patient has 71 years. The disease also affects more women than men, and this is also a risk
factor in this case. Finally, the patient is overweight, and this leads to the development of knee
O.A.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a condition where the immune system attacks the joints leading to
inflammation, while osteoarthritis involves the wearing and tearing of the joints. In osteoarthritis,
there is the presence of Heberden nodes, while in the R.A., the Heberden nodes are absent, and
there is the swelling of the bones. The joints that are much affected by the O.A. are hands, knees,
and hips, where the joint breakdown is changing the underlying bone (Chow & Chin, 2020). The
R.A. most affects the proximal interphalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints. These are joints
found in the hands, wrists, and knees. They also have differences in diagnostic methods whereby
the O.A. diagnostic methods invol...