Arthritis Pain

Treating and Beating offers effective advise regarding treatment of arthritis pain and with over 50 million sufferers nationwide – arthritis pain certainly affects millions of people daily. Over one hundred varying forms of arthritis have been identified, and osteoarthritis is the most common of all. While rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease which sees the body actually attacking itself and through this process antibodies develop in the joint tissues and ultimately cause arthritis pain. Research has shown that women are three times more likely to develop arthritis than man and thus suffer from arthritis pain. The cause of rheumatoid arthritis is unknown; however the disease appears to be a dysfunction within the autoimmune system. The affected areas to suffer from arthritis pain are commonly the knuckles, wrists, elbows and shoulders. These areas appear as a warm, red swelling. In the case of osteoarthritis, the joints are attacked unilateral while the rheumatoid causes arthritis pain on a bilateral scale.

Arthritis pain has conventionally treated in various forms, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatories and analgesics which include aspirin or Tylenol. This form of treatment serves little in combating the effects of arthritis but merely acts as a mask for the symptoms. It has since been proven that this form of treatment can actually cause greater joint destruction. Another treatment for arthritis pain is gold injections, which have harmful and serious side effects, including kidney and liver damage, stomach disorders, headaches, and ulcers to the mouth and gums.

In light of treating arthritis pain in a more unconventional and perhaps natural methods, several studies have proven immediate relief from arthritis by eliminating certain food groups from their diets for a period of seven years, these include, white potatoes, tomatoes, peppers (all but black), egg plant and tobacco. It is obvious that following these simple guidelines will not produce any harmful or severe side-effects, as with the conventional treatment methods.

Food allergies have also been widely linked to the worsening or the aggravating of arthritis pain, and it has been shown that those with intestinal permeability are more likely to develop arthritis. A porous stomach allows pieces of intestinal bacterial to leak into the bone joins, it is these bacterial fragments or pieces may cause the body to release anti-bodies which ultimately attack the joint tissue, which cause arthritis, or rheumatoid arthritis. In fact food allergies are now being intricately linked as one of the main causes of rheumatoid arthritis.

By consuming foods which are rich sources in Omega-3 may offer systematic relief to arthritis pain. In studies involving Greenland Eskimos whose diets are rich in Omega-3, which is found in fish oils, it was found that this community rarely suffered from arthritis. Recent studies have shown that Omega-3 greatly assisted patients from reduced arthritis pain when given vast quantities of Omega-3. Again the intake of Omega-3 will have no devastating or harmful effects, as is the case when following traditional treatment methods for arthritis pain. It is thus suggested that a diet rich in fish oil – and the pain-relieving benefits of Omega-3 be followed.