{"id":237004,"date":"2026-05-12T18:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/emerging-osteoarthritis-treatment-involves-electrically-stimulating-muscles"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:17:27","slug":"emerging-osteoarthritis-treatment-involves-electrically-stimulating-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/emerging-osteoarthritis-treatment-involves-electrically-stimulating-muscles","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Osteoarthritis Treatment Involves Electrically Stimulating Muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/emerging-osteoarthritis-treatment-involves-electrically-stimulating-muscles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lanrhe\/article\/PIIS2665-9913(23)00163-7\/fulltext\">595 million people<\/a> globally are living with osteoarthritis. This makes it one of the leading causes of pain and disability.<\/p>\n<p>Osteoarthritis is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niams.nih.gov\/health-topics\/osteoarthritis\">degenerative joint disease<\/a>, in which tissues in the joint break down over time. The condition can affect any joint, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niams.nih.gov\/health-topics\/osteoarthritis\">most commonly<\/a> the knees, hips, hands and spine.<\/p>\n<p>However, the impact of osteoarthritis often goes beyond the affected joint. The condition can have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthritis-uk.org\/policy-and-data\/health-intelligence\/the-state-of-musculoskeletal-health\/\">profound effects on daily life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 595 million people globally are living with osteoarthritis. This makes it one of the leading causes of pain and disability. Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, in which tissues in the joint break down over time. The condition can affect any joint, but most commonly the knees, hips, hands and spine. However, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}