Do You Have Creaky Joints? by Jane Kriese

Regardless of your age, you could have Arthritis. In North America over Fifty five million people suffer from this debilitating disease.

Arthritis is an inflammation of one or more joints. It is characterized by pain, swelling, stiffness, deformity, or a diminished range of motion.

 

The most common types of Arthritis and their symptoms are;

 

Osteoarthritis; the symptoms are, stiffness, and pain on joint motion. Usually this comes on gradually and occurs after the age of forty.

 

Rheumatoid arthritis; the symptoms are joint stiffness upon awakening; this usually lasts for a couple hours, also swelling in the finger and wrist joints. This usually affects people between the ages of, twenty five to fifty.

 

Spondyloarthropathies (including psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's syndrome) this group of disorders tends to affect the spine, causing pain, stiffness, inflammation, and changes in body position. This usually affects people between the ages of twenty and forty years of age.

 

Gout; The symptoms come on quickly with extreme pain and swelling. It usually affects people over forty years of age.

 

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis; the symptoms are joint stiffness, often in the knee, wrist and hands. It can also involve the organs and the nervous system. It usually affects children under eighteen years of age.

 

If you have this disease here are some of the choices available to you.

You can take pain killers, steroids or anti-inflammatory drugs, and manage the disease, or you can use holistic products, and cure the disease.

You can learn more, visit The Arthritis Foundation at www.arthritis.org.  Knowledge is power and life style diseases are curable!

 

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BIO:

I am Jane Kriese, I am the web master for the site, www.herbsforhealthstore.biz,

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