Researchers at UAB are conducting the first study of brain activity associated with pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis -- a degenerative disease of the soft and bony tissues of the knee.
"We're interested in determining how brain responses to pain differ in people with knee osteoarthritis from healthy people," says Laurence A. Bradley, Ph.D., UAB professor of medicine.
The study will provide researchers with a better understanding of the role of the central nervous system in pain associated with knee osteoarthritis and may lead to new drug and behavior pain-management therapies.
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis, affecting more than 20 million Americans, according to the Arthritis Foundation.
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