Countless people pop over-the-counter (OTC) pain medications to help them cope with joint pain to make it through the day.
But that short-term relief could come at a long-term cost, according to some new research.
A new study led by Johanna Luitjens, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California–San Francisco, suggests that OTC pain medications like aspirin, Aleve, or ibuprofen may make arthritic knee pain worse.
The work found that participants who took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) regularly for four years showed worse results concerning knee synovitis, which is inflammation of the knee….