If thought arthritis is an age-related disease and hits ailing or person over 50, time to think again, as Indian medical experts recently revealed, the condition is no longer age-bound and they are witnessing an increase in number of arthritis patients as young as 30 years old.
Commenting on this new rising phenomenon in young people these days, Dr. Raju Vaishya, an orthopedic surgeon at the Apollo Hospital, Delhi, said, “Age is not a factor in arthritis. It can affect the young and old alike. Rheumatoid arthritis affects young women after child birth or due to injury-stress."
He added, people such as dancers, sports persons and others who engage in physical activity are also at risk due to various injuries like swollen muscles, sprains, knee injuries or fractures they suffer over the course of time.
