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American medical researchers said that the knees with osteoarthritis are in a steady state of self-repair but arthritic hip joints are not.

The study’s author, Dr Virginia Kraus from the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina said that the knee has the capability to repair itself.

Dr Kraus said that knee and hip osteoarthritis may need some different treatment approaches, adding that if joint breakdown could be stopped, the natural repair response in the knee might be enough to discontinue or reverse the arthritis process.

She said that at least with knee patients, there is an enduring repair response that they did not appreciate until now and if the patient could benefit from that and turn off the breakdown processing then patients might have some good effects.

Halting the degenerative procedure in hips with osteoarthritis may not be enough, the hips would also need an action to arouse factors to help begin repair.

Researchers from the Duke University Medical Center identified a sign of hip-joint breakdown; particularly an altered protein called D-COMP. Researchers said that in the circulation, it shows hip degeneration and in cartilage, it gives approaching into the repair response of joint tissues.

They said that it is the first such biomarker especially to a particular joint site and it may be possible to develop it into a means for examining hip-joint breakdown.

Osteoarthritis, also known as degenerative arthritis is a group of mechanical abnormalities involving degradation of joints which causes pain, swelling and restricted motion in the joints of human body.

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