Pain type in osteoarthritis. Approaches to treatment

Abstract

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disorder, seen most often in older patients. The main clinical symptom is pain in the knee and hip joints. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used to arrest pain taking into account the effect they have on somatic diseases and the cartilage tis- sue. Diacerein is one of the drugs exhibiting a pathogenetic effect in OA patients: it inhibits proinflammatory cytokines, tumor necrosis factor and interleukin 1. The effectiveness and safety of the generic drug arthrocare were demonstrated in foreign and Russian studies.

Keywords

• osteoarthrosis
• interleukin 1
• diacerein
• arthrocare.