Which part of the body gets affected most in Osteoarthritis?

Is there any way to control Osteoarthritis if anyone gets it and what are the ways to avoid this.

Bones. In particular ball and socket joints. The best way to avoid it is to live naturally, in harmony with the nature.

The best way to avoid it is to keep your weight down and stay physically active in ways that don't stress your joints. Walking, biking and swimming are good, for instance, but skiing and tennis can really stress your knee joints. Sometimes you can't avoid it -- you injure your joints along the way playing sports or you inherit a genetic tendency to get the disease. I suspect that there are other factors that can lead to arthritis as well -- many women seem to get osteoarthritis about 6 months after the birth of their second child, which suggests that there may be something hormonal that triggers it. There may also be some kind of an infectious agent -- perhaps a virus -- that triggers arthritis as an autoimmune response. I agree with the previous poster -- arthritis does seem to start in one or two joints and then make its way around your body.

Knees, arms, wrists, fingers, ankles, hips, back....practically everywhere except eyebrows maybe.

Mine began after a knee injury. Seems once you're predisposed to it, it pops up everywhere. I now have it in my ankles and they just found some in ONE elbow.

Sucks. totally.

Avoiding it is difficult, esp if it's in your family. I have begun drinking unsweetened cherry juice daily. It does seem to help with the inflammation. Cortizone shots help in my knees, but I'm facing a double knee replacement. I've tried everything else from acupuncture to physical therapy.

Good luck.

Welcome to my world. I have it every where. I just had bone replacement in my right thumb and I am on "The List" for the other thumb, both knees and my left hip. Slice and dice. I don't think I am going to go through all that. I have a high pain tolerance

hip joint ---the ways to avoid is by good diet

and to control it you have to eat natural form of calcium .noshir