Help, Information, Optimism and Hope. A Positive Outlook on Arthritis

This website has information about all the different types of Arthritis including Rheumatoid, and Osteoarthritis . It shows you the resources available to you to help you understand what it is you are going through with this painful condition.  The information provided is to help show you ways to reduce your Arthritis pain and suggest to you additional ways that you can use to control the symptoms of:

Swollen Joints  - which can be any joint in the body

Inflamed Red Joints  - can become very painful and feel hot

Stiffness in Joints  -  improving joint mobility with exercise

Fatigue   - gain back your energy and feeling of wellness

Deformed Joints  -  your mobility can be greatly affected

Painful Joints  - can severely effect the quality of your life

What is it they say about life?  There are some things you can definitely count on and they are:  Death and Taxes. 

We can add another one to that – Arthritis, also known as a 'Professional Weather Forecaster' .

We are here to show you how you can decrease your Arthritis pain and also suggest different ways to cope with, and control, the symptoms: Many of the drugs given for many of the types of Arthritis can have other serious side effects making it doubly painful to handle this condition.  There are many Alternate Therapies which can be used with no side effects to the body. Showing you how Living well with your Arthritis  ,as well as learning how there are many ways to protect your joints , can be of great benefit to you and the improvement of your health.

You can also learn about the Inflammation Process  and how it causes painful and inflamed joints, the most common and visible signs of  Arthritis. When our Immune System is in stress or depleted it often shows in our bodies as inflammation.   When inflammation is present it will cause pain. Pain is our bodies’ way of crying out for help, telling us that our immune system needs to be addressed, something we may not have been aware of until now.

Have you experienced an enormous amount of stress on your joints just from normal physical activity?  This can include all types of activity such as walking, bending, lifting, reaching, or just simply twisting your joints the wrong way.  Your cartilage is a protective layer which cushions and lubricates the joints and over years of activity gets worn down with usage and needs to be rebuilt. 

So how could you go about  Rebuilding Healthy Cartilage?  

Glucosamine is a building block that helps rebuild this cartilage, in turn cushioning the joints to help relieve pain.  It will not cure your Arthritis but it will certainly help make your daily life easier and possibly pain free.

Good Nutrition is vital for the health of our cells and to assist our Immune system in fighting degenerative diseases.  But how do you get good nutrition and why is it so important.  Not all of us are able to eat all off the foods per day that our bodies need on a daily basis. Nor are we always able to get all of the necessary and vital nutrients from these foods to enable our bodies to function properly.  Knowing that our Immune system is not able to protect our health unless it receives a daily dose of nutrients from our foods would supplementing our diet  be a good place to start? .

Once you can understand how the body works, and what causes PAIN it will then make it easier for you to understand how you can eliminate some of the very things that cause it.  When a JOINT is inflamed it means it is suffering pain.  Eliminating the INFLAMMATION means that the pain will go.  This means looking at how alternative therapies may assist you, also exercise, and taking nutritional supplements like calcium and glucosamine, along with other recognized natural methods. All these come with no side effects and many have been proven to be of great benefit not only to giving your control of you Arthritis pain but also improving your overall health and wellbeing.  Explore all of these option and look at the end result positively so you can live your live in comfort, pain free, and with the least amount of stress.

Through research for our Arthritis site, we found many medical sites: some helpful and some not so helpful and some that had extremely good content. Because of our research background, we can recognize the helpful and practical information that we think people could trust. Our goal was to write it in "an easy to understand" way. Not to insult your intelligence -- but so that you can use the information without endless further research for yourself. It will allow you to feel confident and also to help you understand what you face in the medical world. Through our studies we have learned to “interpret" the complicated words and procedures that are used in the medical community.

We have gathered all the research material from "mainstream" journals and web sites, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Centre, etc. We use some Doctors' information and those we chose very carefully. You won't find herbal remedies here as we think they create problems for non-medical people. Most of us just don't know how to use these herbs safely. Most of us forget, or are not aware, that they are the source and basis for so many drugs.

We also looked at everything from the perspective of our Immune System. Maybe the idea seems too simplistic, but our basic belief is that our Immune System is very capable of looking after our health. The one thing we must do is to nurture our Immune System carefully because sometimes it becomes overloaded. So basic thinking is that we should "repair" our stressed Immune System and then continue to feed it correctly. That, of course, is the challenge.

It is difficult to know just what to feed our system, in what proportions, and where to find the best ingredients for the best results. And then of course, we need to ensure that our bodies can use what we give them. Sounds complicated? It is a bit challenging, but not impossible.