New Recommendations for Hand, Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis
CONSENSUS FROM AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY STRESSES EXERCISE, WEIGHT LOSS.
By Linda Rath
4/10/12 For the first time in more than a decade, the American College of Rheumatology, or ACR, has updated its recommendations for thetreatment of osteoarthritis, or OA, of the knee and hip, and issued its first-ever recommendations for hand OA.
The authors of the recommendations (which are less formal than guidelines) write that they are “not intended to be used in a ‘cookbook’ fashion, but rather to provide guidance based on clinical evidence and expert panel input.”
The aim is to provide rheumatologists, general practitioners and patients a guide to proven, effective treatments based on the best available evidence, says Marc C. Hochberg, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and chair of the ACR’s OA guideline committee.
The authors of the recommendations (which are less formal than guidelines) write that they are “not intended to be used in a ‘cookbook’ fashion, but rather to provide guidance based on clinical evidence and expert panel input.”
The aim is to provide rheumatologists, general practitioners and patients a guide to proven, effective treatments based on the best available evidence, says Marc C. Hochberg, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and chair of the ACR’s OA guideline committee.
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