diet with improved vitamins and micro nutrients office ergonomics maintaining appropriate posture and regular small walk between periods of sitting leads to nutrition of the joints current advances in treatment of osteoarthritis specialized physiotherapy using machines like ultrasound laser and muscle stimulator aqua physiotherapy exercising in water swimming pool visco supplementation normal joint contains a layer of fluid which acts as a lubricant in osteoarthritis this lubricant gets degenerated nowadays a synthetic fluid which is of a similar nature is available this fluid is injected into the knee and acts as lubricant though it does not cure arthritis it helps reduce the pain for a significant period of time allowing the patient to exercise and do activities of daily living cartilage transplant patients who have suffered cartilage injury can now undergo cartilage transplant to prevent arthritis at an early age this procedure involves removing some cartilage cell from the joint and culturing them in the lab these cultured cells are then transplanted back to the patient joint in the deficient area joint replacement surgery this is considered golden treatment for osteoarthritis if only one compartment of the knee is involved then doctors can perform single compartment replacement surgery in cases where the entire joint is involved doctors can perform total joint replacement surgerysource ranka hospital pune