Degenerative arthritis qualifies you for disability if the degenerative arthritis is severe enough to prevent you from working.
Degenerative arthritis can in some cases cripple you and become more debilitating over time.
Some people who have degenerative arthritis only experience or have mild symptoms that do not affect their day to day activities and other people can have disability and significant pain.
For most people that have degenerative arthritis the joint damage slowly occurs over several years.
Arthritis including osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition.
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease where the tissues in your joints break down over time and is the most common kind of arthritis in older people.
Symptoms of osteoarthritis include joint pain after rest or being inactive and stiffness for a short period of time.
The meaning of progressive disease is a disease or other physical ailment that has a course in most case of worsening, growing or spreading.
The progression of the progressive disease can happen until there is serious debility, organ failure or life limiting.
However some types of progressive diseases may be halted or reversed through treatment but not fully cured.
Progressive disease cannot be cured but treatments are available to help manage the progressive disease and improve a persons quality of life.
Degenerative diseases are not curable as there are no cures for degenerative diseases although treatments are available which can help control the symptoms of the degenerative diseases and improve your quality of life.
Degenerative diseases are treated through a variety of different ways which include occupational therapy, logotherapy, physiotherapy and neuropsychological rehabilitation.
Some degenerative diseases are caused by genetics and other degenerative diseases are caused by medical conditions such as a stroke, tumor, alcoholism, toxins, chemicals and viruses.
And in some cases the cause of some degenerative diseases are not fully known.
The most common degenerative disease is Parkinson's disease followed by Alzheimer's disease which are known as neurodegenerative disease.
A degenerative disease means that you have a disease in which the structure or function of the affected organs or tissues changes for the worse as time goes by.
Some examples of degenerative disease include degenerative disc disease, Alzheimer disease, osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis.
The 3 common degenerative diseases are Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease.
A progressive degenerative disease is a disease that results from a continuous process that is based on degenerative cell changes and affects organs or tissues that will deteriorate increasingly over time.
And in neurodegenerative diseases the cells of your central nervous system also stop working or die through neurodegeneration.
Progressive degenerative diseases include Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Lewy body dementia and limbic predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE).
On average, a person with progressive degenerative disease such as Alzheimer's lives four to eight years after diagnosis, but can live as long as 20 years, depending on other factors.
Changes in the brain related to Alzheimer's begin years before any signs of the disease.
Neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people worldwide.
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are the most common neurodegenerative diseases.
In the United States, as many as 6.2 million people may have Alzheimer's disease.
The symptoms of progressive degenerative disease include.
Problems controlling movements: tremors, muscular rigidity, slowness beginning and executing movements, alteration in reflexes and problems with balance.
Cognitive problems (dementia): impaired memory, disorientation, deficiencies in intellectual abilities, language problems, etc.
Memory loss and cognitive decline are often the earliest signs of neurodegenerative disease.
It can also start with simple forgetfulness, like misplacing keys or forgetting names, and progress to more severe memory deficits.
Parkinson's disease, another common neurodegenerative disorder, can also affect cognition in its early stages.