The increasing number of patients with arthritis has caused much alarm to medical experts. To this date, there has been no success in finding a specific cure for the disease. In other words, the phenomenon of joint destruction is causing more and more people much pain. Why is arthritis painful? When the body’s immune response [...]
Arthritis picks no age; it affects both young and old. There is a case, however, that strikes much interest and that is ankle arthritis in many young people. There is some thought as to how this happens. They say it could be due to an inherent systematic disorder called Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, but it could [...]
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that has the capability of altering a person’s life. Its tremendous impact on the lives of individuals living with arthritis is brought about by the debilitating pain that it causes. With joints and surrounding tissues being heavily inflamed, people with rheumatoid arthritis are incapable of getting on with their [...]
There is a silent but painful epidemic invading America as well as other parts of the globe nowadays. People of all shapes, sizes, and age are silently tormented with knee pain every single day. The pain, which may range from mild to moderately severe is delimiting and debilitating many individuals. This is commonly mistaken as [...]
You used to be on a rat race all day and night. Now, daily activities easily wear you out and you wonder, is this is what aging does to you? Are there signs and symptoms that you failed to notice? Common signs of aging are: 1. Deep knee joint pain especially when moving 2. Inflammation [...]
Much of the clamor caused by arthritis is due to the fact that it seems to be affecting more and more people every year. With an estimated number of over 30 million, arthritis with its ability to paralyze a person affected with it is one of the many illnesses feared by mankind. Its direct effect [...]
An immune response is the body’s natural mechanism of getting rid of foreign materials. Unfortunately, our body sometimes cannot tell whether the defense mechanism has already gone overboard to the point of causing damage to otherwise healthy tissues. In rheumatoid arthritis, the immune response produces antibodies that can accumulate at the Synovial membrane of joints [...]
The symptoms of arthritis can be generalized on the four most commonly occurring of all, and they are: swelling, stiffness, joint pain, and decreased range of motion within a joint. All these symptoms can be observed on the various forms of arthritis and have been found to cause patients much agony. There are still lots [...]
As with every illness, early treatment can save lives. With arthritis, it is always best to deal with the symptoms during the brief period called, “the window of opportunity” to best stop the illness from causing further damage. Otherwise, once the disease has progressed, patients who leave the disease untreated are likely to experience joint [...]
Herbal Medicines Evidence dating over 5000 years ago holds proof to the existence of herbal medicine for centuries. With the awareness of the harmful side-effects that can be obtained from pharmaceutical drugs, science is now beginning to push forward the advantage of herbal medicine over conventional ones. Herbal medicine is the art and science of [...]
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