knee caps in osteoarthritis

Knee CapsAlmost every single elderly person owns one of these popular caps. A support to an inflamed knee obviously helps BUT a long term use actually is detrimental to the knee. A long term use of any brace causes the knee muscle to loose their strength. A brace has to worn under supervision of a qualified orthopedic surgeon. I also see lot of patients buying expensive (3000 Rs) braces in a camp arranged by quacks. 400 to 500 patients are supplied with these braces which are again purchased in the hope that they will avoid a surgery. These quacks (none of them are even qualified orthotists) make these braces so rigid that the knee damage is accelerated! Then there are magnetic and other special belts, but remember that nothing can stop aging and all these are useless.