Advancing age has its share of trails and tribulations, and a significant financial and medical concern is Osteoarthritis. Arthritis, a combination of Greek word "arthron," for joint, and "itis," for inflammation, is often referred to as one disease though there are more than 100 forms affecting the human body. Osteoarthritis, a disease of joints, is one form that is caused by breakdown and eventual loss of cartilage of one or more joints.

Patients are often unaware of this disease since the symptoms develop gradually, only to be discovered when joints swell or there is discomfort and pain after a period of inactivity. Osteoarthritis is an age related disease affecting nearly 80% of the population above 65 years of age. Women