Arthritis Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

Arthritis is a Major condition which is extremely common now a days, it is a state where the patient faces extreme pain in joints, tightening of tissues (that cause pain), and burning sensation in muscles. Arthritis generally occurs at the joints of the body like limbs area, knee, hips and fingers, where excess pain sensation does not allow the patient to stay at the state of rest.

In scientific term, there are mainly two kinds of Arthritis, the first one is osteoarthritis (that occurs because of irregular functioning of cartilage at joints, it affects knee, fingers, joints of hands, ankle etc.) and the second one is rheumatoid arthritis (that can occur at any part of the body).

Risk Factors for Arthritis -  Arthritis is more common among women, rather than men, this happens because women face various muscular chances during her whole lifetime, from monthly menstrual to childbirth (her muscles gets affected during these phases, so the womens body engrains more chances of losing elasticity and becoming weak.)

Previous injury or accident can also bring the problem of Arthritis.

Moreover, recently studies have shown that people who smoke 5-6 times day even faces the problem of rheumatoid arthritis.
Obesity and family history is another factor behind the problem of arthritis.

However, in most of the cases, with the increasing age, people faces the symptoms of arthritis because in old age, the cartilage (which joins the two part of body) loses its elasticity and muscles further starts losing up, hence causing the condition of osteoarthritis arthritis.

Symptoms of Arthritis – The common symptom of arthritis is pain and swelling at the joint area, and if the pain increases with the rise in swelling for more than 1 and half week then, the person should immediately seek physician help to cure it completely.

However, Rheumatic form of Arthritis acts as an inflammatory, which means, the patient hugely suffers from the inflammatory problems like cough, sneezing, fever, fatigue, less energetic, weight loss etc

Treatments for Arthritis – Following regular exercising regime can eradicate the problem of osteoarthritis; even it is advisable by doctors to perform muscle exercises, especially stretches, to stay away from the problem of arthritis in old age.

However, if the patient is facing extreme pain, then drugs like Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (aspirin) is the best recommended by the physicians for quick relief, moreover merely taking self medication is not advisable, it is necessary to take doctors advice first because these medicines can be allergic in few cases.

Apart from this, consuming essential nutrient and following more healthy diet routine works wonder to cure the problem of arthritis, especially adding glucocasamine in ones diet chart works magically in order to eradicate the problem of arthritis from its roots.

Additionally, eating fish oil, almond oil can even help a person to recover from arthritis, especially in osteoarthritis; it works like a lubricant that further provides friction to the cartilage, which helps in proper functioning of the joint muscles.

Lastly, taking complete bed rest is very important in serious cases of arthritis, however if the problem is in control then, also the patient requires giving adequate rest to the bone so that swelling can reduce and joints can remain stable without any pain.