Arthritis & Natural Therapies

Arthritis is a disease that causes inflammation of joints, resulting in pain, redness, and swelling. There may be significant damage in the synovial membrane, and articular cartilage resulting from the inflammatory process.

Infective arthritis is caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi invasion in the joints. This can happen from a bodily infection, trauma of a joint or surgical incision. There is typically a very low chance of having this form of arthritis.

Most people suffer from are non infective arthritis, caused by immune system reactions, or the deposition of urate crystals around joints.

The triggers that cause these reactions to happen are seldom be apparent. Rheumatoid is classed as an autoimmune disease, meaning that the bodily immune system has stopped functioning effectively, and begins to attack itself. The initial inflammatory response of the immune system is out of control, and instead of protecting the organism, it seeks to kill it.

Osteoarthritis is the degeneration and loss of articular cartilage in joints. Osteoarthritis results from wear and tear from doing the same tasks often, playing certain types of sports, dancing, obesity and aging and usually it occurs in from 50 years of age.

An alternative health practioner may require you to undergo a detoxification process, which would involve taking a number of natural medicines for your disease. The outcome can be very positive indeed, and the patient can resume normal activities, depending on the amount of joint damage which has already taken place.

Natural medical treatment when applied can result in outstanding cures, not just the symptoms which are manifesting, but of the whole person, and this is what cure is all about. Removal of symptoms does not necessarily mean cure.

As to exactly why a person has arthritis but it can stem from emotional states like feeling unloved, criticism, and resentment. The nutritionist might see it as a problem resulting from a poor diet, poor assimilation, and lack of vitamins. An acupuncturist sees it as an energy blockage in the nervous system.

Alternative medicine treats what they see as the underlying cause of the disease, and for this reason their treatments can result in a far better outcome for the patient. Conventional medicine use of drugs to alleviate the patient's symptoms is likely to result in future problems from side effects of the drugs being used to treat the disease or that the root cause for the disease is left untreated causing the bodys health to further deteriorate.

The patient has more control over the healing process and if they are responsible for a health outcome, patients are all too willing to hand over responsibility for their disease to their doctor, rather than taking control of their own lives and asking appropriate questions, and searching for answers themselves.

People with poor health often want a quick fix, immediate relief for the intense pain, and if the pain disappears as far as the sufferer is concerned all is well. All too often the cause of the health condition is left untreated. It's perfectly understandable if you are in intense pain that you want it to stop immediately, but it's worth finding out the cost to your future health for this quick-fix method.

Patients often take the drugs prescribed to them by their doctors and may never bother to ask or read about the possible side effects of these prescribed drugs, dutifully taking their medicine. When if there is any damage caused as a result of these drugs they want to sue, but then usually it's too late, the damage has been done.