Osteoarthritis is the wearing down of cartilage on joints, and when cartilage wears away, bones are left to rub directly on each other. Bone-on-bone rubbing of facet joints can inflame medial branch nerves, resulting in intense facet joint pain.
Pender Island (Saanich: stÌeyÌÉs) is one of the Southern Gulf Islands located in the Gulf of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada.Pender Island is approximately 34 km 2 (13 sq mi) in area and is home to about 2,250 permanent residents, as well as a large seasonal population.he islands, along with Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast, were given their current name by Captain Richards for Staff Commander, later Captain, Daniel Pender, RN who surveyed the coast of British Columbia aboard HMS Plumper, HMS Hecate and the Beaver from 1857 to 1870.
(Redirected from Pender County, NC) Pender County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 52,217. Its county seat is Burgaw. Pender County is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.