Sentences with phrase «crippling joint disease»

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

Crippling joint diseases.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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