Arthritis is a condition which is so common it’s often mistaken for inconsequential. Anyone who has suffered or is currently suffering from this disease will tell you different. Arthritis is a condition which can make your every movement agony, riddling you with chronic pain. It can make your movements so painful that it eventually saps your mobility all together and in some cases where treatment isn’t available or given faster enough, it can cause deformity as joints swell and distend.
There are over 200 different types of arthritis and though each is slightly different and requires a different type of treatment, they all affect the joints. Arthritis is chronic in that it can’t be cure but merely treated, the worst of its symptoms mitigated but never removed.
An area of our bodies which we rarely think about are our hands. They’re imperative to most of the things we take for granted and do every day without thought. They’re amazing things and are one of the only true, physical differences between us and animals. Arthritis of the hands can be crippling for just that reason. You might not lose mobility but you’re certainly going to lose the ability to do things which in years before wouldn’t have even given you a second thought. Things your shoe laces, doing up the buttons on your shirt or simply shaving will be beyond you. You’ll lose your independence.
Treatment of arthritis is best achieved when partnering medicine prescribed by doctors with more alternative therapies and lifestyle changes. There are diets which are specially formulated to lessen inflammatory reactions in the body and ease the symptoms of arthritis. There are also gentle exercise schemes which can help to retain mobility in the joints affected. With the two working in tandem arthritis can be stopped in its tracks.
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