Joint pain can definitely occur at any age, and at first glance it is completely unexplainable. Statistics inevitably show that 50% of people after 40 and 90% of people after 70 face this problem. The nature of joint pain and its causes may vary. At the same time, modern medicine provides almost the same set of therapies to treat pain symptoms, usually only temporarily. However, the root of this problem is much deeper than many people think. Therefore, it must be solved in a completely different way.
Joint pain-a serious problem of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Joint pain-the definition is not completely correct. In general, the joints were not harmed because they were deprived of their nerve endings. The signal filament abuts the surface of the bursa containing cartilage. Through them, signals about potential stimuli that threaten joint integrity are transmitted. The latter includes various foreign factors: viruses, toxins, salt crystals, etc.
However, there are more symptoms of joint pain or arthralgia than real symptoms, and anyone who has experienced this symptom can easily confirm it. Sometimes the painful sensation is so strong that a person is forced to restrict one's movement for fear of disrupting the restless joints again. However, joint pain can occur in a state of complete rest, resulting in unbearable torture.
Why are the joints injured?
Why the joint was injured is not sure. The exact cause can only be determined by experts after necessary inspections. The factor that causes joint pain is usually called:
- Overly active lifestyle. No wonder joint pain is the real scourge of professional athletes.
- A sedentary lifestyle. Insufficient physical activity can lead to a decrease in the blood supply of connective tissues, leading to insufficient nutrition. Joints can only express protest in one way.
- Various damage. For example, after falling from a height or accidentally moving, the pain of joint opening may recover after a period of time and develop into chronic pain. This is already an eloquent signal about cartilage destruction (progressive arthritis).
- Being overweightis another typical factor that causes the development of joint disease and therefore causes joint pain. Nature gives our joints great strength, including taking into account weight fluctuations. For example, an additional 500 grams of weight in the knee joint feels like an extra load of 2. 5 kilograms. It is already a severe challenge!
- Virus infection. Of course, everyone who has not been lucky enough to get the flu at least once knows about this condition, which is often referred to as bone soreness in daily speeches. This is actually the joint response to infection. Usually, once the patient recovers, these uncomfortable symptoms will inevitably disappear. However, influenza and other viral diseases often cause joint complications. In this case, joint pain may become a symptom of a more serious disease (infectious arthritis).
- Genetics.As we all know, the nature of certain joint diseases cannot be accurately explained by scientists, so they can be inherited. Therefore, for reactive arthritis, arthralgia usually manifests at a young age, and modern science cannot make a clear assessment of this phenomenon.
- Abnormal metabolic process. Although this item is at the end of the list, according to some experts, it is considered the key to determining the cause of the development of most osteoarthropathy. It is especially clear how foreign bodies penetrate into the cartilage tissue, causing the development of the inflammatory process and the occurrence of characteristic pain symptoms.
Now, let us imagine how our knees will feel if we add at least 5-10 pounds of weight. If this is muscle growth, it is not terrible. One of the main functions of muscles is to support and strengthen the organs of the musculoskeletal system. Fat is another matter. In this case, simply flatten the joint under the hydraulic press. Of course, this process will happen gradually, but if you do not catch up in time and do not take care of yourself, it is likely that you will eventually stop in a wheelchair and retire due to early joint disease. And if joint pain can still be tolerated in the initial stage, then it will become almost unbearable in the future.
Take at least calcium salts. The deposition of calcium salts in connective tissues can cause bone growth (osteophytes) and subsequently destroy cartilage. Calcium is a reliable aid to our health, and only severe biological dysfunction can cause this damage. According to scientists, this is against the endocrine process, which lacks many important hormones, including testosterone, which is responsible for the redistribution of substances in the body.
Joint pain-a sign of big trouble
According to another view, joint pain is the result of a destructive process in the bone structure. The facts supporting this theory are as follows: In areas where joint pain and inflammation occur, bone tissue is found to be destroyed.
The root cause of these problems is the same-a violation of calcium metabolism. Everyone knows that this mineral is essential for bone growth. However, he cannot perform this important task alone. When the calcium intake and redistribution mechanism fails, it will become a burden on the human body.
Most of the calcium consumed, as well as the calcium flushed out of bones, are deposited in blood vessels, internal organs and cartilage tissue. In the latter case, as described above, this macronutrient becomes the cause of the development of joint disease. However, by then, the process of bone destruction has been in full swing. Therefore, at the first signs of joint pain, it makes sense to perform densitometry. This test helps determine bone mineral density.
How to get rid of joint pain? Traditional way
How to get rid of joint pain? The simplest and most obvious answer to this question is to take painkillers. In general, it is impossible to eliminate this problem immediately in any other way. Joint pain is not a diagnosis, but a symptom. Moreover, a symptom that literally poisons life. The modern pharmaceutical market offers a wide variety of various analgesics, and despite a short period of time, they do help relieve pain. Then what? Turn them into pill hostages over and over again?
Pain medicines are not harmless by themselves. In addition to addiction, they also have dangerous and possible side effects, which usually do not even attract the attention of the manufacturer. In addition, any or even the most powerful analgesics will change sooner or later, because their effects will diminish over and over until they eventually disappear.
Painkillers can be compared with the facade mesh used to cover buildings under construction or dilapidated. Until a certain time, this disguise is helpful. It is almost impossible to understand what happened behind it-without pain. But, sooner or later, the truth will be revealed in a completely plain way-the building will simply collapse without waiting for the builder.
In order to prevent this from happening in the first place, even the most insignificant joint pain requires medical help. Experts will help you determine the real cause of the problem and prescribe the necessary treatment plan. A true professional in his field can draw a general clinical picture based on the main medical history (investigation) and palpation of the affected joint area. However, a more accurate diagnosis may require serious research: biochemical blood tests, X-rays, ultrasound, MRI, CT, endoscopy, arthroscopy, and joint puncture.
Regarding further treatment, experts will not only be interested in the nature and frequency of joint pain, but also the accompanying symptoms. For example, a local increase in temperature in the problematic joint area indicates the presence of an inflammatory process, the development of arthritis. Therefore, in addition to the painkillers already mentioned, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs will be prescribed. The latter has many restrictions on admission: blood coagulation disorders, acute gastrointestinal diseases and others.
The success of treatment depends largely on the diagnosis time of the disease and the elimination measures taken. It is worth mentioning here that despite the abundance of modern medical equipment, no expert can guarantee the ultimate recovery. Of course, in the early stages of the disease developing into a chronic form, the chance of success is high. However, in the late stage, when the joint destruction is already in full swing, the doctor can provide help is to slow down the destruction process, thereby reducing the patient's condition. In the worst case, when there is almost no cartilage left, the only way to save a person from an imminent disability is surgery, in which artificial joints are used to replace damaged joints.
How to get rid of joint pain? Folk remedies
Alternative medicine experts can also advise on how to eliminate joint pain. It's hard to say how effective this method is in reality, but people can't help but notice the fact that traditional therapists have surpassed their scientific colleagues in solving this problem.
However, self-administration should be carried out with caution, preferably after consulting a doctor. In addition, even professional orthopedic surgeons sometimes do not hesitate to adopt the experience of traditional medicine. However, this does not mean that you need to try a dozen "proven" recipes right away in the hope that at least one recipe will work. Given that after such an experiment, you must also heal the burn, so it is unlikely that anyone would dare to make a compress from ground horseradish and kerosene. Even more frightening is rubbing diseased joints with alcohol-based fly fungus tincture.
The use of medicinal herbs and bee products to suppress, bathe and decoction are considered to be truly useful, and equally important, safe for health. For example, decoction of fresh gooseberry leaves can eliminate joint pain caused by gout. This vitamin herbal tea will provide additional nutrients to the joints, and if taken regularly, it will greatly reduce pain symptoms.
A general treatment for any joint pain is to apply ointment from the roots of ground meat, cow d and comfrey, and then apply it through a meat grinder. Mix 100 grams of the resulting substance with 400 grams of internal fat and cook in the oven for at least 2 hours. Dressings made from ground raw potatoes are also very suitable for these purposes.
Apiproducts have been successfully used for joint pain: honey, propolis, bee mackerel. Based on their compression can relieve pain and inflammation, but in terms of eliminating salt deposits in joints, the issue here is quite controversial. It should be understood that such deposits can form in the cartilage tissue over the course of many years, so it is naive to believe that they can be removed by ordinary rubbing and lotion. For these purposes, the use of honey compresses with salt seems even more absurd.
Calcium in joints-into bone tissue
However, it can remove mineral deposits through the joints and prevent the formation of osteophytes. To this end, scientists have developed an innovative tool based on drone homogenization. This amazing product has the most abundant essential substances to promote the normalization of endocrine processes and therefore remove calcium salts from the blood, soft tissues and joints. In addition, all these unclaimed mineral reserves begin to benefit the body and are redirected to bone tissue that always needs calcium.
How to restore cartilage tissue without injection and surgery?
It is very difficult to restore cartilage tissue, especially cartilage tissue that has been destroyed for many years. The fact is that the chondrocytes responsible for their production account for only 1% of the total mass of the joint device. For the sake of clarity, you can imagine that a builder was ordered to repair a city in ruins.
In order to help chondrocytes cope with this impossible task, modern medicine provides several solutions. First, these are injections of hyaluronic acid directly into the joint cavity. The process is very complicated and painful, but at the same time it often fails to achieve the desired results.
The second method is the transplantation of donor cartilage tissue. Here, there are enough pitfalls. There is no 100% guarantee that someone else’s biomaterials can take root successfully, but even if the operation is successful, there is still a huge risk of cancer.
A more conservative method of cartilage tissue repair is to use chondroprotective agents. These drugs can be of synthetic or natural origin and are designed to stimulate the renewal process of cartilage tissue. In fact, not all of these funds can successfully complete the task. Largely because they are foreign bodies of the human body, which means they are likely to be rejected or cause side effects.
The standard chondroprotective agent can be well absorbed by the human body and make cartilage cells actively divide. It is a famous plant-medicinal dandelion. Its roots contain special substances tartrazine and dandelion wine, which can accelerate the production of new cartilage cells. As a result, the affected tissue of the joint is restored.
Based on this natural ingredient, natural food additives are produced using innovative low-temperature processing methods. The drug has a cumulative effect. When used as a course of treatment, the body can concentrate the necessary resources to successfully fight joint diseases. At the same time, the symptoms and characteristics of arthritis and arthritis have gradually decreased. Reduce the frequency and intensity of joint pain, and improve its mobility.