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Question 5 When caring for Chuck, you recognize the importance of understanding complications related to obesity. You know that the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis results in dull, yellow, and granular articular cartilage becoming smooth, white, and translucent incongruity in joint surfaces that creates an uneven distribution of stress and contributes to a reduction in motion affected cartilage becoming softer and more elastic, increasing flexibility of joints that results in deformities. O cartilage becoming thicker, with a decrease in bone growth (osteophytes) at the joint margins.

Answer 1

The pathophysiology of osteoarthritis results in; incongruity in joint surfaces that creates an uneven distribution of stress and contributes to the reduction in motion (As it results from to uneven load distribution)