Arthritis is a condition which becomes more and more common each year. It’s chronic and as such it’s not a condition which you’re ever going to get rid of when you get it. However, it’s imminently manageable and providing you take the right steps at the right time you shouldn’t have too many issues with it. Arthritis’ most common symptoms are chronic pain and lack of mobility, before the disease became more manageable it could cause deformity too. Providing patients treat the condition as well as they can, follow their medical advice and their doctors treatment tips they, will never experience deformity.
As is so common with chronic conditions, the best way to treat them involves more alternative therapies than pharmaceutical ones. Diet and exercise are very important to maintaining your health despite your arthritis and though you shouldn’t use these two alone, they should become very important to you. Diet involves eating anti-inflammatory foods like berries of all kinds and avoiding inflammatory and more processed foods. This will help keep the inflammation which is the root cause for all of arthritis’ other symptoms under control.
Exercise is an interesting treatment for arthritis as it’s often thought of as the cause of the condition. While it’s true that excessive exercise for most of your life can make your chances of getting arthritis much higher, it’s also true that excessive amounts of anything is bad for you. If you’re looking to exercise to ease your symptoms then make sure those exercises are gentle and that you keep doing them. In concurrent studies it’s been shown that those who continue their exercise, no matter how slight, experience much less pain that those who don’t. A great starting point for those who find movement painful is water aerobics. As the water supports a large proportion of your body weight meaning that you’re putting much less strain on your joints but still getting the benefits of the motion!
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