How to Use osteoarthritis in a Sentence

osteoarthritis

noun
  • No one in the study had signs of knee osteoarthritis.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • What is the best thing to do for osteoarthritis?
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • What are the stages of osteoarthritis?
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • My osteoarthritis has started to get in my way with some of that.
    — Michelle Brooks, ajc, 27 Feb. 2022
  • If popping your joints is painful, that can be a sign of osteoarthritis.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • About two-thirds of them had back pain, and the rest had osteoarthritis pain in their knees and hips.
    — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The point here is that osteoarthritis is not just a concern for oldsters like me.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 12 Nov. 2021
  • When the cartilage cap at the end of your bones wears thin, this is known as osteoarthritis.
    — Dr. Harlan Selesnick, miamiherald, 23 Oct. 2017
  • There’s osteoarthritis in the right hip and the body in general.
    — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Carter, who has osteoarthritis, uses a walker to move around, the suit said.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Pain, stiffness and swelling around the joint are a few key signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Even chronic health problems like osteoarthritis can be to blame.
    — Marygrace Taylor, Good Housekeeping, 11 July 2018
  • The most common form is osteoarthritis.
    — Gina Park, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This breakdown can occur with age and through wear and tear of knee joints, as is the case with osteoarthritis.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • While knee osteoarthritis isn’t reversible, there are ways to reduce pain.
    — Gina Park, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In some ways this is like moving a joint that is afflicted with osteoarthritis.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 21 Dec. 2017
  • In patients with osteoarthritis, noni may also reduce pain and boost their mood.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • South African herb studied for osteoarthritis and back pain relief.
    — Verywell Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Think the lifetime runner with osteoarthritis in the knee who balks at boxing up the running shoes.
    — Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Heudebert suspected this pain was not just the man’s osteoarthritis.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Garth was diagnosed with osteoarthritis around the age of 45.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The myth that running causes osteoarthritis and ruins your knees has long been debunked.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 25 May 2018
  • She’s talked at length to the press about having a leaky heart valve and being diagnosed with osteoarthritis.
    — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 12 Sep. 2024
  • It’s been found helpful for lower back and neck pain as well as osteoarthritis, and may be helpful for cancer pain.
    — Liz Seegert, Fortune Well, 26 Apr. 2023
  • One is a treatment for osteoarthritis, the other a treatment for breast cancer.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Steinmetz explained that the new study proved that osteoarthritis becomes more common with age.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The drug also reduced pain caused by knee osteoarthritis by up to 75 percent.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Devil's claw may have the potential to relieve osteoarthritis and back pain.
    — Verywell Health, 21 Feb. 2023
  • For years, Evangelista, 82, had been dragged down by osteoarthritis in his neck.
    — Carrie Teegardin, AJC.com, 8 June 2026
  • The researchers discovered that the most common areas for osteoarthritis are the knees and hands.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 29 Aug. 2023

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