Arthritis Joint Pain

Today Arthritis has trapped half of the world, which literally means joint inflammation. Arthritis is not a single kind of disease - people from all over the world suffer from several kinds of Arthritis.

Different Arthritis

Worldwide, Arthritis is classified under 8 categories as:

1) Osteo Arthritis:Osteoarthritis is most frequently seen after the age of 45 and is also more common in women. Osteo arthritis mostly affects knees, hips, spine and feet.

2) Rheumatoid Arthritis:RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis) typically affects the small joints, such as the hands, wrists, elbows and feet. Occasionally, RA (Rheumatoid Arthritis) can cause inflammation in other body organs such as the heart and lungs.

3) Gout: Gout is a painful type of very painful, which can attacks both large and small joints, though it only attacks one joint at a time. This disease begins with pain in the big toe.

4) Fibromyalgia: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain disorder that can cause severe pain in the muscles, ligaments and tendons but not in the joints such as neck, hip, shoulders etc.

5) Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus it is a connective tissue disease, which affects through out the body. Lupus generally affects skins and heart.

6) Carpal tunnel syndrome: Carpal tunnel syndrome causes pain in tingling and weakens our fingers and thumbs.

7) Juvenile arthritis: This is a common type of arthritis observes in children which affects our hands, feet, knees or ankles and other internal organs, causing rashes and fever.

8) Back pain: It is very common and a major cause of disability and people having days off work.

Causes and symptoms:

Arthritis may cause severe pain, stiffness and swelling at joints parts. Some of its common symptoms are,

1) Swelling in joints
2) Difficulty in moving joints
3) Joints appear red
4) Stiffness around joints

It generally affects toes, knees and wrists. If left untreated can cause non-curable damage to joints, bones, and skins. Though there are 8 kinds of Arthritis but Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Gout are the most observed. Approximately more than 350 million people suffer from this disease. The sufferers include men, women, children and adults out of which most are under 65.

Scientists believe that including lifestyle and heredity several other factors are major cause of Arthritis such as,

1) One suffers from Arthritis when his/her family member has same disease (i.e. this disease is transferred through genes)
2) Females are more vulnerable to this disease than men.
3) People having more weight or fat persons are more vulnerable to this kind of disease.
4) And sometimes in our day-to-day life heavy weight lifting leads to joint pain.

Control Arthritis

1) Don't opt for painkillers
2) Keeping your weight balanced is a key to control joint pain
3) Fight Arthritis by regular exercise

Cure Arthritis and joint pain (e.g. Synotrex)

The most popular treatment for Arthritis is Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs such as Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra. Unfortunately these have lots of side effects as they increase risk of stroke and heart attack. So people are seeking safer, natural alternatives such as glucosamine, chondroitin, turmeric, SAMe, MSM and fish oil to treat their painful symptoms.