Osteoarthritis Spine
Osteoarthritis Spine
Affecting an approximately seventy million Americans, arthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States. Arthritis is complex disease that can hit at any virtually any age and featuring more than one hundred various conditions. Of the multitude of arthritis disorders, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis are the two most common. For this reason the idea of acupuncture and massage therapies for arthritis treatment has suddenly become quite popular.
Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis is the most common form of the disease in the United States. Stricking a record twenty-one million Americans, osteoarthritis is a systematic shutdown of the joint cartiledge that ultimately leads to severe pain and stiffness. The hips, knees, fingers, and spine are the most common comfort zones for osteoarthritis, with the wrists, elbows, shoulders, and ankles less commonly affected. When the disease deviates into a uncommon area of affliction it is typically due to an pre-existing injury. Work related injuries are frequent causes of the development of osteoarthritis. For example, professions where bending, kneeling, and squatting is the main attraction feature an elevated risk of osteoarthritis of the knee.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: In contrast to osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis can actually affect various joint and some patients feel the disease’s effects in other parts of the body, including the blood, the lungs, the tissue of the skin, as well as the heart. Rheumatoid arthritis, which can be long-term, is characterized by an inflammation of the joints called synovium, the inflammation causes joint swelling, stiffness, warmth, and redness. The affected joints may lose their shape, thus losing the ability to move normally.
Acupuncture and Massage Therapies for Arthritis Treatment
In recent years, the use of acupuncture and massage therapies for arthritis treatment have pointed to the therapies’ potential as effective alternatives to mainstream medicines. And that’s not all that the use of acupuncture and massage therapies for arthritis treatments have in common, both alternative treatments have beginnings that are deeply rooted in the mystical world of ancient medicine. Just take a look at acupuncture.
Acupuncture For Arthritis Treatment: Acupuncture, and other types of oriental medicines, have been wildly successful in treating the pain and inflammation affiliated with various types of arthritis. Ancient Chinese medicine custom fits acupuncture treatment according to the individual arthritis symptoms of patients with a unique combo of acupuncture therapy, Chinese herbs, body work, and lifestyle changes. Even dietary changes and energentic exercises are a big part of treating arthritis through acupuncture.
The acupuncture points used to treat arthritis aren’t just located over the throbbing area, but rather in different areas located over the entire body. You may just find those tiny acupuncture needles placed in every area from your legs to your arms right on down to your baby toe! Don’t let the needles frighten you, some people take their acupuncture session as an opportunity to catch up on a few Z’s. Session last between five minutes and a half an hour, but arthritis patients may require multiple trips to their acupuncturist depending on the severity of the disease.
As a follow-up to your visit, your acupuncturist may also provide you with prescribed Chinese herbal formulas specifically designed to alleviate the symptoms of arthritis. Chinese herbs used to treat arthritis as a part of acupuncture therapy are:
A Scadanavian study of thirty-two hip replacement/arthritis patients found that twenty-five percent of the patients who received acupuncture therapy experienced such surges in their functionability that they decide they didn’t need that hip replaced after all.
Massage Therapy for Arthritis: Both acupuncture and massage therapies for arthritis treatment are used as cutting edge alternatives to contemporary medicine, but did you know that they both got their start in the ancient world? It was the ancient Greek Hippocrates who first suggested that “rubbing” be used as a remedy for loosening a “hard joint-” that was over two thousand years ago. Massage therapy is believed to work in a few ways in combating arthritis:
And if one form of massage therapy doesn’t work for you, don’t sweat it. There are several very popular massage therapy programs to choose from:
Can your knee feel pain from your spine getting crooked?
i have had a knee injury( osteoarthritis kinda thing: i’m 26 but from some knee bend, and me having abnomal knee caps, i started having this)Wel, but i had been fine recently . today i did some cardio exercise, jumping in place or shadow boxing and suddenly my knee started hurting , i couldn’t bend that easy. Just prior to that i felt my spine got twisted..I have this often sometimes and when it happens my buttocks get a weird feeling of pain then when i unlock/untwist my spine, it goes back to no pain.so i wonder if it’s the same thing with the knee?
Oh it’s very easy to damage your knee, especially after you have already had an injury. You have to be very careful. You cannot do the things you did prior to injury. Any twisting, over extending, bouncing especially will hurt it and I bet it’s full of fluid isn’t it? You can actually feel it. That is when you know you’ve reinjured it. Same thing with the back. The pain in your buttocks is from the sciatica nerve that runs through your SI joint in the back. That is the most common area for both injury and pain. Age has nothing to do with it…I have had a bad back since around 19 years of age…threw it out I can’t even count how many times. Finally I just had to give up things I knew were bad (most exercises and sports included in that!) and do more back-friendly ones. When I was pregnant with my 3rd I guess I had put on a lot of wieght during that pregnancy and my knee was in agony for 6 months till I dropped all the weight. Being overweight is really hard on the knees…on the feet too.
So now you know that you should avoid some of what you do or just be careful not to overdo it and go easy when exercising. Give it time to heal before doing anything again and just go slow and see what happens.
NuDrive Customer Testimony: Peter Creasy – (Spinal Cord Injury and Osteoarthritis)
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