Roorkee, Sep 7 (PTI) Researchers at IIT, Roorkee, have developed a low-cost method using implants with long-term heat therapy to treat osteoarthritis, a disease that causes pain and stiffness in the joints leading to degeneration of the bone cartilage. These polymer-based nanoparticles, injected around the knee-joint under with normal heat therapy, will be able to provide long-term heat therapy for the patient, a press release from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) said. Currently, osteoarthritis is treated using anti- inflammatory drugs and steroids, which have critical side- effects on patients. Moreover, such treatment cannot inhibit the growth of this degenerative disease, the release said. Techniques such as knee-replacement are also used, but are expensive and have a long recovery time, it added.

Source: India Today September 07, 2017 14:03 UTC