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COMPLICATIONS

3. Bone death (osteonecrosis).

4. Stress fractures (hairline crack in the bone that develops

gradually in response to repeated injury or stress).

5. Bleeding inside the joint.

6. Infection in the joint.

7. Deterioration or rupture of the tendons and ligaments

around the joint, leading to loss of stability.

8. Pinched nerve (in osteoarthritis of the spine).