There are all sorts of ways to try and alleviate your arthritic symptoms and depending on which form of the condition you suffer from depends which of these methods you use. As arthritis causes chronic pain which can escalate into a loss of mobility and eventual deformity being able to help lessen and slow down these symptoms is very important to arthritic patients. With modern treatment methods things like deformity are becoming less and less common but they’re still a danger and it’s important that patients are aware of what they face.
For a long time scientists have postulated that vitamin D, taken as a dietary supplement, could well help to alleviate arthritic symptoms in patients who’ve been diagnosed with osteoarthritis. These sufferers were told that they could experience lessened pain and increased mobility by keeping their levels of vitamin D nice and high.
It’s now become apparent that, for certain patients, this simply isn’t true and in fact the reverse may be a factor. For those who suffer from osteoarthritis in their knees the idea vitamin D simply doesn’t work as a treatment aid and in a recent study it was shown to actually be less effective than the placebo offered.
More study is required to take any definitive information from this study and as such, the researchers involved and preparing to embark on just this. What can be taken from the study in question is that, in most cases osteoarthritis patients who primarily suffer from issues in their knees above the other parts of their bodies aren’t going to experience any positive changes from taking vitamin D dietary supplements. It may be worth stopping taking these and focussing on other treatment methods which have been shown to have a much higher success rare and more potential to heal rather than harm. As always, check with your GP before changing or stopping any medication or treatments you are on.