Teen Disabled by Arthritis Gets Hip Replacement at 20
By Susan Donaldson James
March 18, 2014 10:40 AM
Abdul Moussadda was an active biker, working a summer job as a waiter and getting ready for his first semester of college, when he got hit with the flu. Two weeks later, at the age of 19, a sore throat and other horrible symptoms set in. […] When he was finally referred to a rheumatologist, Moussadda was diagnosed with an autoimmune form of arthritis – Still’s disease, a disorder that is similar to a systemic-onset variation of juvenile arthritis, but it occurs in adults. […] Fed up with being immobile and in constant pain, he approached Dr. Steven Naide, an orthopedic surgeon at East Coast Orthopaedics about possible hip replacement surgery. At that point, Moussadda’s hips were “bone on bone.”