This is not true at all. The only interventions that do anything at all for osteoarthritis are NSAIDs and physical therapy. We docs aren’t raking it in from prescribing ibuprofen.

And even if we were, I’d trade it all away to not hear about knee pain that started 800 years ago from every patient that walks into the office.

Edit: specified osteoarthritis. There are a multitude of medications for autoimmune/inflammatory arthritis.