Expert Author: Peter Hutch | Submitted: 2008-06-26 | Word Count: 492 | Views: 39 Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of the body. Arthritis is the leading cause of disability in people older than fifty-five years. One type of arthritis, osteoarthritis, is often related to aging or to an injury. Other types occur when your immune system, which normally protects your body from infection, attacks your body's own tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of this kind of arthritis. Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is a form of the disease that happens in children.
Read MoreExpert Author: Dr. Jenny Hobson | Submitted: 2008-06-11 | Word Count: 453 | Views: 25 First Home Remedies for Arthritis: - For arthritis treatment a gentle massage with Arthcare Oil (Anti-Inflammatory) is recommended to relieve arthritis pain and to strengthen the bone tissues, the skeletal and the neuromuscular systems, giving a comfortable movement of joints and muscles.
Read MoreExpert Author: Betty Roberts | Submitted: 2008-06-10 | Word Count: 878 | Views: 39 With the ever-rising cost of health care looming into the future, many of us are looking to the past for answers in natural home remedy (for Gout especially) for the treatment of what ails us. This also goes for disorders like Arthritis and Gout. Home remedy is mostly being used as treatment.
Read MoreExpert Author: Betty Roberts | Submitted: 2008-06-10 | Word Count: 840 | Views: 10 Since our bodies rely heavily on the urinary system to rid us of excess Uric Acid, it is easy to understand why good hydration and fluid balance is so important. The balance of fluids in our systems plays an integral role in Gout prevention, cure and Gout treatment. Look closer at our every day consumption of liquids and their up close and personal relationship with Gout. Prevention of Gout is not that difficult. What you need is proper knowledge to treat Gout.
Read MoreExpert Author: Dr. Jenny Hobson | Submitted: 2008-05-15 | Word Count: 637 | Views: 21 Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. The word 'osteoarthritis' is derived from three Greek words osteo meaning bones, arthr means joints and its means inflammation.
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Hutch | Submitted: 2008-05-05 | Word Count: 536 | Views: 33 Arthritis is a complex disorder that comprises more than 100 distinct conditions and can affect people at any stage of life. Two of the most common forms are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. These two forms have very different causes, risk factors, and effects on the body. The most common symptom in both is persistent joint pain. The joint pain of arthritis can appear as hip pain, knee pain, hand pain, or wrist pain, as well as joint pain in other areas of the body.
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Hutch | Submitted: 2008-05-04 | Word Count: 512 | Views: 92 Gout is a form of arthritis that's characterized by sudden, severe attacks of pain, redness and tenderness in joints. The cause of gout is a high blood level of uric acid (hyperuricemia), which can accumulate in joints and lead to inflammation. Uric acid is a waste product formed from the breakdown of purines - substances which are found naturally in your body as well as in certain foods.
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Hutch | Submitted: 2008-05-04 | Word Count: 517 | Views: 87 Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis can also cause inflammation of the tissue around the joints, as well as in other organs in the body. Autoimmune diseases are illnesses that occur when the body tissues are mistakenly attacked by its own immune system.
Read MoreExpert Author: Maria Kinsella | Submitted: 2008-04-26 | Word Count: 365 | Views: 23 When you suffer from arthritis and joint pain, the last thing you may want to do is move around and exercise, but believe it or not, that is the best prescription to keep your joints flexible and to reduce discomfort.
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Sams | Submitted: 2008-03-20 | Word Count: 577 | Views: 99 Knee pain can be related to overuse where small stresses are placed a large number of times on knee without allowing adequate recovery, for example running too much too soon, or excessive jumping. Or knee pain can be acute where the injury is caused by an impact or twisting of the knee such as an anterior cruciate ligament injury. An overuse injury can also be considered to be acute if it is painful or inflammed.
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Sams | Submitted: 2008-03-19 | Word Count: 571 | Views: 36 Joint pain and body pain have been a matter of serious concern. One way or other most people of old age suffer from it. But not only have the old, even young people also experienced these pains. In younger people it is mostly the aftermath of any serious injury suffered earlier which reoccurs from time to time.
Read MoreExpert Author: John Mepham | Submitted: 2008-03-11 | Word Count: 913 | Views: 37 Improvements in insulin resistance have been shown to improve uric acid reduction in another study and raised insulin levels and insulin resistance have been shown to exist in a majority of gout sufferers in another study. In this study markers of insulin resistance improved, and uric acid levels
fell in a majority.
Read MoreExpert Author: John Mepham | Submitted: 2008-03-11 | Word Count: 963 | Views: 23 The widely publicised low purine gout diet is based on the purine theory of the cause of gout. This theory is not the only gout cause theory. The study explained here was designed to discover whether an anti-insulin resistance diet would be successful against uric acid levels and gout attacks. It did have a lot of success. Insulin resistance is another theory of the cause of gout.
Read MoreExpert Author: Brandon J. Thomas | Submitted: 2008-03-10 | Word Count: 471 | Views: 82 Age, infection and joint trauma all contribute to arthritic pain. Most common in people over fifty-five, it is a leading basis of disability. The most commonly contracted form of joint pain is osteoarthritis. This disease mostly associated with chronic joint pain is debilitating, sometimes making even simple tasks impossibly painful...
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Sams | Submitted: 2008-03-05 | Word Count: 560 | Views: 30 Arthritis can happen at any age. Sore joints begin to limit the activities you enjoy. The knuckles on your fingers seem swollen, your knees and ankles seem to ache a lot, your back hurts when you wake up in the morning...
Vitamin C is needed to make collagen, which makes up cartilage. Cartilage cushions bones, and not having enough leads to deterioration and osteoarthritis. Vitamin C is thought to play a role in treating rheumatoid arthritis because it battles free radicals that injure cartilage.
Read MoreExpert Author: John Mepham | Submitted: 2008-03-05 | Word Count: 676 | Views: 31 Alkaline (ionized) water is part of natural gout treatment since it raises pH.This article explains the basics of making it at home, why a water ionizer is better than alkaline drops, and lists hyperlinks to testimonials about alkaline water by gout sufferers, who credit it with curing gout naturally or relieving it.
Read MoreExpert Author: John Mepham | Submitted: 2008-03-05 | Word Count: 877 | Views: 28 Raising body pH helps in natural gout treatment because it's likely that when the body is more alkaline, more uric acid will be excreted. So how do you raise your body pH by consuming foods and drinks that are more alkaline? And if you are on a diet, which will be the case to some degree for most gout sufferers, how much attention should also be paid to raising pH from diet?
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Sams | Submitted: 2008-03-04 | Word Count: 569 | Views: 25 Diseases or injuries that affect human joints. Arthritis is no doubt the best-known joint disease, but there are also many others. Diseases of the joints may be variously short-lived or exceedingly chronic, agonizingly painful or merely nagging and uncomfortable; they may be confined to one joint or may affect many parts of the skeleton.
Read MoreExpert Author: Thomas Turner | Submitted: 2008-02-26 | Word Count: 350 | Views: 18 Around the world, there are millions of sufferers of joint pain. This pain can arise from one or more of the joints in our body. Another source of joint pain is inflammation of the joints. An auto-immune disease, known as rheumatoid arthritis, is one of the major causes of pain in the joints.
Read MoreExpert Author: Peter Sams | Submitted: 2008-02-21 | Word Count: 541 | Views: 28 Lumbar and Lumbosacral arthritis affects the lower back and pelvic girdle, causing pain, inflammation, and the loss of motion in these areas.
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