Sentences with phrase «crippling joint»

Crippling joint diseases.

This painful and potentially crippling joint disease is a predominantly age - related condition.

I've been thumbing through a veterinarian book the evening before and I found out that large breed dogs run risks of such crippling joint and bone disorders as canine hip dysplasia, osteochondrosis, elbow dysplasia, and developmental orthopedic disease.

At first glance, water softeners have little in common with the crippling joint erosion of arthritis sufferers.

SYMPTOMS: The patient had spent his last year confined to bed, suffering from intense, crippling joint pain.

The disease, which causes crippling joint pain persisting for weeks or even months and for which there is no known therapy or vaccine, hopscotched from the Caribbean islands to eventually land in the U.S. and the rest of the Americas.

They often also suffer painful pressure sores from rubbing against the bars of their cages and crippling joint problems as their muscles waste away from lack of use.

Not exact matches

Hartford HealthCare's announcement last week that the hospital giant will form a joint venture with a health plan is not as much of a surprise as it may have seemed in an industry under pressure to control crippling costs.

A concentrated blood product, introduced in the 1960s, if given soon after accidental bleeding has begun, can eliminate much of the crippling effect the condition has traditionally inflicted on stricken joints.

Rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that leads to stiff, deformed joints and often crippling pain, affects around 1.5 million adults in the United States.

Disorders of the joints, bones, muscles and connective ligaments, tendons and cartilage affect millions of Americans on a daily basis, producing symptoms ranging from reduced function to crippling pain.

Hip dysplasia leads to degeneration of the joint, which can be incredibly painful and crippling.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease characterized by persistent pain and stiffness, along with progressive joint destruction, particularly in the hands and feet, leading to crippling deformities.

Crippling osteoarthritis is relatively rare, but almost everyone has a joint that creaks, pops, aches, or occasionally flares up in pain.

Whether the result of arthritis or just the wear and tear on the body that accumulates over the years, crippling aches and substantial reductions in joint mobility aren't typically problems that simply appear overnight.

It is characterized by persistent pain and stiffness, along with progressive joint destruction, particularly in the hands and feet, leading to crippling deformities.

The poor fit eventually results in the deterioration of the joint, with painful and possibly crippling results.

To feed small - or medium - breed food to a large - breed puppy could put the puppy at risk for malformations, such as hip dysplasia, a gradual loosening of the hip joint that can ultimately be crippling.

Canine Hip Dysplasia is an abnormal formation of the hip socket that, in its more severe form, can eventually cause crippling lameness and painful arthritis of the affected joint.

Hip Dysplasia An abnormality in the development of the hip joint, Hip Dysplasia can exist with or without clinical signs, which can be mild to crippling and include lameness, difficulty walking or a bunny - hop gait.

Rottweiler dogs grow quite rapidly and the wrong type of food and in the wrong amount, can have crippling effects on a puppy's delicate developing joints.

Hip and Elbow Displasia - A crippling malformation of the ball and socket joints that is detectable by X-ray, surgery may be helpful in some cases.

Hip dysplasia is an abnormal formation of the hip socket that, in its more severe form, can eventually cause crippling lameness and painful arthritis of the joints.

«Even more important is the impact obesity has on joints and the arthritic changes that are often crippling.

A large number of these dogs suffer from crippling as brought on by joint or bone disease.

Hip Dysplasia is a crippling condition in which laxness in the hip joint causes premature breakdown of the cartilage lining, leading to arthritis.

They suffer from too many painful and crippling bone and joint diseases — high rates of hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, panosteitis, cruciate ligament rupture).