Osteoarthritis

The advice in the NICE guideline covers the treatment, advice and support that people who have osteoarthritis should be offered by their healthcare professional and when being referred to specialist care. This includes: diagnosis education exercise and physiotherapy medicines alternativ ...

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The advice in the NICE guideline covers the treatment, advice and support that people who have osteoarthritis should be offered by their healthcare professional and when being referred to specialist care.

This includes:

• diagnosis
• education
• exercise and physiotherapy
• medicines
• alternative therapies
• surgery.
  

It does not specifically look at the care and management of related conditions (for example, rheumatoid arthritis and joint pain).

Responsibility for undertaking a review of this guidance at the designated review date has passed to the National Clinical Guidelines Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions (NCGC-ACC) The National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions is no longer active.

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