Osteoarthritis is the most common form of joint disease mainly affecting the elderly and often described as “wear and tear” arthritis.
It is an age-related degenerative disease in which there is loss of cartilage between two bones and changes in the joint margin or when the protective cartilage that cushions the ends of the bones wears down over time.
Osteoarthritis frequently develops in many joints at the same time, often symmetrically on both sides of the body.
Common Causes:
- Age – mainly over 50 years
- Obesity as fat tissue produces proteins that can cause harmful inflammation in and around your joints.
- Sports injury due to stress
- Injury to a joint
- Hereditary
- Women are more likely to develop osteoarthritis.
- Repeated over-use or stress on the joint.
- Bone deformities. Some people are born with malformed joints or defective cartilage.
- Certain metabolic diseases e.g., diabetes and a condition in which your body has too much iron.
General SYMPTOMS
- Mainly affects weight bearing joints like knee, hip, hands joints & vertebrae (spine)
- Joint pains that develop slowly and gradually.
- The pain increases on the use of affected joint
- Decreased movements of joint
- Joint enlargement and deformity in advanced stage
- Affected joints might hurt during or after movement.
- Joint stiffness might be most noticeable in the morning upon awakening or after being inactive.
- Your joint might feel tender when you apply light pressure to or near it.
- Loss of flexibility.
- Feeling a grating sensation or hear popping or crackling.
- Bone spurs. These extra bits of bone, which feel like hard lumps, can form around the affected joint.
- Swelling due to soft tissue inflammation around the joint.
DO’S & DONT’S
- Maintain your weight by regular exercise and diet control
- Avoid fatty foods
- Local heat using heating pads for painful joints
- Physiotherapy is necessary to regain increased movements and muscle strength
- Protect joints from overuse by using certain objects e.g. cane, walker, neck collar, crutches, elastic knee support
- Take proper care of sports injury by wearing proper sports gear
- Avoid excessive aggressive massage on painful joint. It may worsen the condition
Arthritis is a chronic disease of bones or joints that cause inflammation, tenderness or swelling of a single or multiple joints, accompanied by stiffness and pain, which typically worsen with age.
Typical CAUSES of Arthritis.
In most cases the causes are unknow or nonspecific.
Still, some of the contributing factors may include:
- Heredity – genetic – Some types of arthritis run in families!
- Age related wear and tear
- Auto-immune
- Stress
- Infections from different bacteria
- Rheumatic fever.
- High uric acid deposits in joints
- Bones TB, Tuberculosis
- Skin affection – psoriasis or lupus
- Intestinal condition like Crohn’s disease.
- Women are more likely than men to develop rheumatoid arthritis, while most men suffer from gout!
- Previous joint injury – perhaps while playing a sport etc.
- Carrying excess weight puts more stress on joints, particularly knees, hips and spine.
Most common SYMPTOMS in various arthritis.
- Stiffness and restricted movements
- Red shiny skin over the joints.
- Swelling & Pain worsens with age
- Deformity of joints
- Numbness or tingling
- Loss of appetite
- Low grade fever
- General sense of being unwell
There are over 100 different types of arthritis, some of which name below:
- Osteoarthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Reactive arthritis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Septic arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Cervical spondylitis
- Fibromyalgia
- Gout
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Thumb or fingers arthritis
Self-Care – DO’S & DONT’S
- A wholefood, largely vegetarian diet with plenty of salads, fruits and lightly cooked vegetables is recommended.
- Take vitamins A, C, E and zinc supplements.
- Maintain optimum weight for your height and built.
- Exercise regularly but avoid vigorous and heavy work.
- Local heat or infrared is helpful to alleviate the pain.
- Avoid full activity or stretching of the joints.
- On waking do not rush into your routine but start gradually and slowly.
- Cut out foods such as dairy products.
- Avoid red meat but fish or chicken in moderate amounts will do no harm.
- Avoid unpasteurised milk and use goat’s milk if possible.
- Avoid acid fruits such as lemons and strawberries, tomatoes, salt, sugar (use honey instead), tea, coffee and alcohol.
FREE Shipping included – Usually dispatched within 1 – 2 working days!
Are you concerned about your health or have been suffering from a chronic, recurrent health disorder?
A ready-made kit that comes with instructions as how to take or use the remedies etc., containing 2 homeopathic remedies, one herbal supplement for internal use and one therapeutic massage oil for external application.
Give it a try, if you truly believe in Natural holistic remedies!
Ideally, complimentary remedies should go hand-in-hand with conventional treatment for optimal recovery, and you may take them along with your regular medicines, if any, for additional benefits!
All our remedies are prepared according to Hahnemann principles, using traditional method of dilution or succussion, by a fully qualified naturopath practitioner after a lot of research, proving and great success results from a number of our in-house patients having similar conditions – Still the results may vary from person to person!
Special note: While selecting the remedy from the age wise drop list – there are 3 options as per the pills size e.g., for infants under one and children between 1 – 10 years of age, we use 2 different sizes small globules, as compare to adults. You may also contact us and ask for lactose tablets if you don’t want your remedy in sucrose pills.
You may need to continue taking these remedies from few weeks to few months or until the desired results – depending upon the severity and chronicity of your condition.
You may also contact and speak to one of our naturopaths to discuss any dietary requirements or allergies you may have, or ingredients used in preparation of the above kit.
If you are looking for a particular remedy or a kit not listed on this site, please contact us, as we stock a wide range of complimentary remedies that you may need.
We also make tailor-made homeopathic remedies, as per your causative factors, physical & mental peculiar signs & symptoms etc., if you need any further information please feel free to message.
DISCLAIMER: Although, most natural remedies including herbal supplements, homeopathic remedies or aromatherapy formulations for external use etc., are generally very safe even in children and old age, we still recommend you to seek medical advice from your GP / personal health provider before making your purchase etc., if unsure.
Some patients may experience a little aggravation or worsening of their symptoms, specially in skin disorders – which is absolutely normal and a good sign, as most natural remedies tend to bring the disease in its expressive state – rather suppressing it deeper under the skin etc.
This complimentary remedies kit is taken with your own responsibility. Please avoid self-medication specially if you are pregnant, breastfeeding or have been suffering from any chronic or terminal medical conditions etc.
Due to strict UK regulations on the sale of medicinal products, we cannot give specific advice, without a face-to-face consultation.
