The term arthritis is a widely used term to describe an inflammation of the joints. There are two basic types of arthritis recognized, rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. The former tends to start at a younger age than the latter, osteoarthritis tends to be found mainly in the over 50 age group. One of the causal factors of both forms is an autoimmune reaction, i.e. th body’s immune system starts to attack the body itself. This is believed to be the main cause of rheumatoid arthritis. Often, rheumatoid arthritis will come and go whilst the pain and stiffness from osteoarthritis will gradually worsen over time. Arthritis can affect any joint in the body but as a rule, rheumatoid begins in the upper body (finger joints are often the first site) whilst osteo affects the lower body first, affecting the knees and hips first. Arthritis is still not fully understood.

Have you been experiencing pain? Maybe you’ve got some low back pain, neck pain, or hip pain? How about chronic tension in muscles and joints? Would you like to be able to bend over to put on socks or shoes? Do you want to feel good again? If so, you might be ready to try a type of therapeutic bodywork called Ortho-Bionomy. For several years now I’ve used Ortho-Bionomy in my San Antonio Massage Therapy and Bodywork practice to relieve pain and stress.

What Is Ortho-Bionomy and How Does It Work?

In Part One of this article I described the problems with traditional treatment of opiate addiction. Suboxone is a revolutionary alternative.

How do women become addicted? Let’s start with history. For over a hundred years in this country, women and girls have been encouraged to self-medicate for emotional and physical symptoms of the hormonal cycle, which were labeled “hysteria” in the nineteenth century. In fact, physicians regularly prescribed opiates for moodiness, pain or fatigue, and Coca-Cola, then containing cocaine and served at soda fountains, was promoted in consumer advertising as an afternoon pick-me-up for ladies. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, today’s women receive twice as many more psychotropic medications from their doctors than men do, and these may be prescribed for decades. But a woman cannot take a psychotropic medication for years that that was originally prescribed for a temporary anxiety problem without a risk for physical addiction. As many a woman has said, “How can I be addicted to this? After all, my doctor prescribed it.” We call this accidental addiction, but it can escalate to a conscious self-medication effort on the part of the addict, as she elicits multiple prescriptions from multiple doctors and pharmacies.

I finally found relief from my arthritis pain, naturally, and you can too. Arthritis sufferers today are always seeking relief from their arthritis pain.

As a result of arthritis, the bone just beneath the cartilage undergoes changes that lead to a bony overgrowth and the tissue that lines the joint can become inflamed, the ligaments can loosen and the associated muscles can weaken. Osteoarthritis affects joints in a different way depending on their location in the body, causing various arthritis symptoms. Unlike some other types of arthritis, like rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis is not systemic - it does not spread throughout the entire body.

Arthritis is a condition that is characterized by pain. How does Arthritis cause pain, and why?

To understand the answer to the question of how does Arthritis cause pain, it is necessary to review the purpose of pain. Pain is a function of the human nervous system and it serves a definite purpose. When something is wrong and harm is being done to the body in most anyway, chemicals are produced at the site of the disturbance. These chemicals cause a signal to be sent through the nervous system to the brain. The brain translates this signal into the sensation of pain.