Creaking knees, hips, and ankles arent necessarily normal aches and pains that come with age. Your pain might be arthritis. Luckily, medicine has a lot to offer --- from exercise and alternative supplements to medications and joint replacement.

Injections of the active ingredient found in red-hot chili peppers may produce lasting pain relief in people with knee osteoarthritis.

A skin patch called Lidoderm may help ease pain caused by knee osteoarthritis, giving patients an alternative to the drug Celebrex.

Treating a common knee injury could help avoid knee osteoarthritis.

Adding acupuncture to standard treatment for knee arthritis helps patients feel less pain, a new study shows.

Traditional Chinese acupuncture helps people with knee osteoarthritis, new research shows.

The over-the-counter drug acetaminophen may be no more effective than sugar pills in relieving knee pain caused by osteoarthritis.

Brothers and sisters of people with osteoarthritis in their knees are twice as likely to develop the same condition, report British researchers.

A new device is showing promise for detecting arthritis in the hands before joint destruction occurs.

Although heralded as a powerful antioxidant that fights everything from the common cold to cancer, a new study shows that over a long period of time high doses of vitamin C is associated with worsening of one of the most common forms of arthritis -- osteo

The popular supplement glucosamine could do more than just ease arthritis knee pain. New research indicates that it may actually stop disease progression -- and possibly reverse it.

The supplement glucosamine seems to boost the pain relief from ibuprofen, suggesting a new combination approach to arthritis treatment.

Whether its on land or in the water, resistance exercise can help people with osteoarthritis build strength and improve their mobility.

People who use chopsticks on a daily basis are more likely to develop hand osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis that is often due to excessive use of joints.

Theres evidence linking knee osteoarthritis -- the breakdown of cartilage in the knee -- to physical stress on the knee joint. Its more common in women than in men. But new research shows high-heeled shoes are not to blame.

New research is challenging the long-held notion that inflammation is not a cause of   osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis.

Women in some sports are more prone to tear the anterior cruciate ligament in their knee than men, but new research shows that certain gender-specific exercises may limit this injury risk.

If you have knee osteoarthritis, exercise is good for you. But one often recommended exercise might make your disease worse, a new study suggests.

Ex-athletes can be prone to joint problems, even without prior injuries, but proper stretching can help avoid the problem.

New study adds to evidence that the popular supplement glucosamine can ease knee pain, but most benefit comes after four weeks