How Evolving Gonarthrosis?
How evolving osteoarthritis of the knee?
It is usually a slow disease course. In most cases there is no crisis but the pain and loss of mobility are progressive, and reduce the distance you can walk without pain.
There are often interrupted by painful crises that correspond to localized losses of cartilage. Once the residual mechanical pain crisis is somewhat higher than previously and smaller mobility.
The secondary osteoarthritis cartilage irregularities (fractures, infections, etc.) evolve more rapidly from the beginning because there is increased friction articular cartilage that wears out.
In some cases the evolution is rapidly destructive, in months.
The evolution can be assessed at every visit to the various tables or indexes of mobility, pain and ability to perform activities. All are useful but of course the table used for the first assessment is to be used in the successive and should not be changed because it would alter the understanding of evolution.