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Taming arthritis
By Marlene Kaiser of Kaiser's Distributing
Most people think of arthritis as a disease for elderly people. That is a misconception. Many childrens hospitals have a wing devoted to arthritis for children. Children that are afflicted with any arthritic disease are condemned to a lifetime of pain and debilitating joints. Some of these children will have the joints in their hands operated on several times during their lifetime. If they have Osteoarthritis, the most debilitating kind they will be limited in what they can do. Arthritis attacks the entire body, but the hands are what cause the most suffering because they have so many joints and are so necessary for everyday living. Rheumatoid arthritis is not as debilitating as Osteoarthritis because it doesn’t cause as much deformity, but there is still bone damage and some swelling and deformities. To tame arthritis, it is essential that you keep moving the joints as much as possible regardless of the pain every time you do so. Stretching your hands, walking for your knees and moving your feet and ankles all the time is an important activity. Stretching your shoulders and your back also helps keep it possible to stand and walk. Most of the children who make it to the hospital are already confined to a wheelchair because of the illness. The hospitals have several different activities to teach the children how to move and how to deal with the pain. One activity that the children really enjoy is racing up and down the halls on a three-wheeled cart that they lay on and propel with their hands and feet. Some of these children can go really fast for a hospital hall and everyone has to get out of their way. Being condemned to a lifetime of pain, means that you have to continually find new ways to handle the pain, because the pain receptors in our body require more and more quantity of pain pills to take the edge off of the pain. Many children with arthritis take huge quantities of pain pills by the time they are adults, and the pills must be rotated and changed to keep them effective. Fortunately rheumatoid arthritis is the most common kind that affects adults because of wear and tear on the joints. This is not near as crippling or as painful as osteoarthritis. The pain tends to come and go with activity. It is controlled much easier than osteoarthritis. Sometimes it will be dormant for a period of time. Then it flares up, and your hands and feet become swollen and sore with pain. This is the kind that makes you a weather person; it flares up when the barometer changes. The amount of pain felt with any disease is due to how your body perceives pain. Everyone has a threshold of pain. Those with the highest threshold have to be careful because they can be hurt and not know it, unless they bleed. They won’t feel the pain until it is severe. Those with the lowest threshold for pain, will feel every little bump and bruise, and know it right away. Pain is on a continuum. Fortunately, most of us fall into the middle of the continuum so that we are aware when pained, but not as debilitated by it. Some form of arthritis is suffered by most elderly people, simply due to wear and tear that they have experienced. You can see rheumatoid arthritis through x-rays of the joints. Osteoarthritis is more apparent because the joints will lock up and can’t be moved without great effort. The picture below is from Google images.
Marlene Kaiser is a retired Social Worker, who spent her working life helping many others to get and have health care. I also found myself advising them on how to become more healthy, and find inexpensive ways to maintain good health through good eating and taking supplements. That is why my interest in Watkins Products.
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This is a rewrite of my original article, because of the feedback I got that it was too much of an advertisement. I hope it is more informative, and was inspired because this is hospital week.
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Thank you for sharing this well researched and well written intel, Marlene.
There are so many people who suffer with this disease and it is magnified when it is children who must bear it for a lifetime.
Keep up the good work.
Best wishes.
Frederick
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Fredericke, you always leave great upbeat comments. I have read several you have given to me and others. Thank you.
I love your title Marlene - simple but to the point!
Arthritis can be very serious and painful in older people as we know, but knowing that it affects children is hard to bear.
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I have had arthritis in my hands since my early 30's, but I have had to work to keep it at bay. There is a joke about waking with my friend arthur istis daily for elderly.
Thank you for sharing with us Marlene, a well written informative intel. The one thing that you do not share however is that Arthritis is both preventable and curable through natural healing!
Can I, through this comment recommend a very good book, Curing Arthritis The Drug-Free Way by Margaret Hills. She was diagnosed with acute Rheumatoid Arthritis and confined to the sick bay and later chronic osteoarthritis. Truly a remarkable story of how she found the cure for this debilitating disease, anyone with even a twinge of it should read her book.
Adrian.
P.S. It is available on Amazon the isbn for the one I have is 0-85969-689-8
I have used Omega 3 Plus(that's one that I sell)and Apple Cider vinegar for a number of years and do not have any sign of arthritis.
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I'll go to Google books and see if it is there, and then read it. It is important that people with arthritis eat the right things. I can sure tell when I haven't.
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