New Treatment Might See An End Of Chronic Pain

Arthritis is a condition which affects millions of people worldwide every single year. If you’re lucky enough to be from the more developed world and have access to the necessary treatments then you’re likely to be able to manage the condition. In these cases you’re likely to only experience chronic pain and perhaps a slow loss of mobility. For those less lucky arthritis can be a serious issue which doesn’t simply leave you in pain, it can cripple you and leave you deformed and unable to fulfill even the simplest of tasks.

As arthritis is a chronic disease you’re going to have to deal with it for your whole life after you’re diagnosed. One of the only ways to minimising its effects on your life is through management. There are lifestyle choices you can make and things you can actively do which can ease your symptoms. These things should generally be done while taking whatever drugs your doctor has prescribed for you so as to achieve best effect. For many this will help to alleviate their symptoms for a long time but will never actively treat the condition itself.

A new treatment is being developed in the UK it involves an injection directly into the inflamed areas. This injection incorporates a cocktail of cells which are generally used to regulate your immune system. They target the arthritis at its source and treat the condition itself as opposed to the symptoms. Results so far are positive and various people have said how exciting the treatment will be for those who have to deal with the chronic pain arthritis causes on a daily basis. It will be some time before we see such treatments becoming mainstream but if current results are anything to go by then it might be sooner rather than later.