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The Symptoms Of Arthritis
by Delfer Schmere
http://www.arthritishope.com

Arthritis is a disease which causes joint to become
inflamed. It can hit just one joint or it can cause pain in
several. Arthritis has close links with many other diseases
and often people diagnosed with one disease find that they
get arthritis into the bargain. Arthritis normally stays
with a sufferer for the rest of their life and can often
become worse.

There are two diseases under the banner of arthritis -
rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. The first of these is the
worse kind. The second kind is much more common though - if
you are over sixty you are more likely to have
osteoarthritis than not: some 80% of over 65s are
sufferers. Oftentimes this is seen as one of the inevitable
effects of getting a little older - think about the number
of time the joints will have been called into action in
sixty odd years. Osteoarthritis can be painful and plenty
of people find it very unpleasant, but it is much more
bearable than rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis starts
out with stiff joints, maybe along with a noticeable
limitation in the range of movement of that joint.
Sometimes it proceeds no further, sometimes the joint will
become stiffer and the movement will steadily diminish.

Rheumatoid arthritis is the chronic form, and as well as
being very painful, it can lead to crippling deformity.
Thankfully it is much less common than Osteoarthritis and
if suffered by less than 3% of the population of the
developed world. You are more at risk from this form of
arthritis if you are a woman than if you are a man, and the
disease can start much earlier than osteoarthritis -
normally between the ages of 30 and 50. The symptoms of
rheumatoid arthritis start a little like osteoarthritis in
that the joint can feel stiff, but with rheumatoid
arthritis the joint swells and the person can feel
generally unwell and more tired than usual. This form of
arthritis can also attack the other organs such as skin,
eyes and lungs.

The causes of both types remain a mystery to modern
science. Neither is there a cure. Of the little that is
known we can see that there is a higher incidence of
osteoarthritis in the severely overweight. Bring weight
under control places less stress on joints and does help
prevent the disease. Those already suffering with
osteoarthritis may find that shedding pounds relieves their
suffering somewhat. Osteoarthritis is treated with anti
inflammatory drugs and Aspirin. Steroids can be injected as
a later line of defense, but it is not encouraged to begin
with.

Currently there are no successful routes to avoiding
rheumatoid arthritis. That said, better results are seen if
treatment is started ASAP. Treatment used to be
paracetamols and aspirins, but these things cannot be taken
for the long run. Recently specific pharmaceutical aimed at
rheumatism have been introduced and these can be taken in
the long term.

The pain brought on by arthritis can be eased by a steaming
bath. Advances in surgery means that arthritis sufferers
who have been confined to a wheel chair by the disease can
receive a new hip joint made from plastic. Physio
treatments can be of help, along with things like
acupuncture and hydrotherapy. There are also reports of
herbal remedies and fish oil capsules helping.

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