Arthritis pain can be different for some people, so some might suffer greatly from arthritis while others will only have mild pain.
Doctors will try to find out about the intensity of your pain in order to prescribe you the proper medication and treatment.
The pain from arthritis is primarily due to joint inflammation, and for many people the pain can be chronic, possibly lasting anywhere from weeks to months, or years...
or even for the rest of one's life.
Arthritis in the foot will occur less frequently than in the hip or knee.
The ankle is less often involved with osteoarthritis and is most likely to be involved with inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Foot arthritis is also commonly involved with conditions that result after an injury.
The joints can become swollen and red, which limits your movement.
If you experience pain from something you do every day (such as something related to your job, sitting at the computer or a machine, or related to a hobby such as knitting or crocheting), then changing the repetitiveness of that activity will help to diminish your arthritis symptoms.
Joint replacement may be necessary in some extreme cases.
Replacing the joint is the process of removing your entire joint, as well as any tissue that is damaged, and replacing it with a metal prosthesis.
The prosthesis offers the patient with much needed relief from any chronic pain.
For smaller joints, then a preferable surgery option is joint fusion.
Unfortunately, fusion can sacrifice movement in these smaller joints.