Peter Bales, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon and member of the clinical staff in the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of California at Davis Health System. A research advocate for the Arthritis Foundation (www.arthritis.org), he is the author of Osteoarthritis: Preventing and Healing Without Drugs (Prometheus).
Breakthrough research from the US and Europe Osteoarthritis has long been considered a "wear-and-tear" disease associated with age-related changes that…
