Therapy goals
- Pain relief
- Improvement of mobility
- Improvement of walking performance*
- Improvement in the quality of life
- Delay the progression of osteoarthritis
* For gonarthrosis (knee joint osteoarthritis) or coxarthrosis (hip osteoarthritis).
Therapy recommendations
Depending on the severity of the disease and individual problems, the following medications can be used:
- Analgesics (painkillers)
- Non-acid analgesics
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs; non steroidal anti- inflammatory drugs, NSAIDs).
- Selective COX-2 inhibitors (coxibe).
- Opioid analgesics
- Glucocorticoids
- Chondroprotectants (cartilage protectants)
- Other medicines
- See also under “Other therapy“.
