Getting moving is the essential issue for all patients witharthritis knee, which is why the pharmaceutical company Sanofi is launching a new program “Osteoarthritis in motion” and offers patients and doctors tools for better management of gonarthrosis (osteoarthritis of the knee).
“Today, the goal of all patients is to regain movement” explains Professor Pascal Richette Rheumatologist at the Lariboisière Hospital in Paris.
“This requires multidisciplinary care around the patient, calling on several health professionals and a range of increasingly effective therapeutic solutions.
This program offers 2 applications: Arthmouv (mobile app dedicated to patients with knee osteoarthritis) and Knee 3D, an iPad application to better understand the anatomy of the knee, knee osteoarthritis symptoms, as well as the mechanical impact of the pathology.
“This system is also supplemented by two websites: Sanofi-arthrose.fr for all information on the pathology, and rediscoverlemouvement.fr, aimed at promoting exercise and a return to movement” explains the laboratory in a press release.
The website www.retrouverlemouvement.fris exclusively devoted to the essential re-movement and takes the position of providing practical and targeted answers with supporting videos because “Movement is good for knee osteoarthritis, as long as you move correctly” explains Doctor Jean-Marie Coudreuse, doctor in charge of the sports medicine unit, physical medicine and rehabilitation center at Salvator hospital in Marseille.
Gonarthrosis affects 3.5 million French people, or 1 in nearly 10 million French people witharthritis. Too often considered as a simple wear and tear linked to aging, osteoarthritis is a real disease which, if it cannot be cured, can be cured. This disease involves all three tissues of the joint: cartilage, the subchondral bone (bony area located under the cartilage) and the synovial membrane that lines the inside of the joint.
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