Severe degenerative arthritis does not affect the patient all of a sudden. Look at my dad for example! At the age of 76, he has now been slammed onto forced bed rest by Severe Degenerative Arthritis. This happened because ignoring our best advice; he had continued ignoring the symptoms with utopian callousness. But now the severity of the disease has struck not only him but his morale has taken a nosedive as well. Though we might still save him the blues with the help of surgery, severe degenerative arthritis is avoidable if you follow a routine check up with your physician and pay heed to the signals that the ailing body sends you.