Osteoarthritis is known as the wear and tear of the joints. All over the world scientists are trying to find out the reason of this ‘wear and tear’ of the joints. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease. The reason is not known and the cure is also not available. All we can do is to manage the disease. There is no method to use as osteoarthritis prevention measure.

Various people are conducting experiments to find out the cause of osteoarthritis. It has been found out that osteoarthritis does not affect of its own. It is always present itself with some other condition such as obesity, old age, previous injury to the joint. Effective osteoarthritis prevention method has not been found yet.

Osteoarthritis is one disease where effective preventive measures are not available. One can try osteoarthritis prevention by using different things such as control the weight by doing regular exercise, eating right. Once you are affected by the disease you can try and live a painless life as far as possible.

While trying to find out the possible patients and the causes of osteoarthritis, some of the researchers have noticed that women who are taking hormone replacement therapy are less prone to osteoarthritis. It has been consistent with the findings because there is a significant rise in of osteoarthritis in women after 50.

These are menopausal years for a woman when her body produces less estrogen. It has been found there are estrogen receptors in cartilage. Harmon replacement therapy replaces estrogen in the woman’s body. As a result one notices decrease in the osteoarthritic condition.

Many people have studied the role of estrogen in osteoarthritis. The findings are very encouraging. It has been found in the studies of women over 50 years of age that those who are taking oral estrogen as hormone replacement therapy have a lower risk of osteoarthritis.

Women who are undergoing menopause have a tendency to develop osteoporosis. The condition when bone density is lower and they are very easily broken. Estrogen is the female sex hormone which is produced by the ovaries. As the body stops to produce estrogen, the Calcium and other minerals from the bone are decreased. If estrogen is administered orally and Calcium with D vitamin is taken the condition can be reversed. So the researchers suspect that low estrogen levels in the body could be responsible for osteoarthritis.

To use estrogen as an osteoarthritis prevention measure has its benefits but further studies are required to establish a firm link between the use of estrogen and prevention of osteoarthritis.