Which do you prefer?
You may not think that you can do anything to help your arthritic condition, if you hold this view, then these are your options: medications (anti-inflammatory medicines and analgesics), physical therapy, topical agents (arthritis rubs), intraarticular glucocorticoid injections (cortisone shots given into the knee joint), viscosupplements (lubricant injections into the knee joint), [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2006
Living with Arthritis, or living without Arthritis
Alternative Medicine For Arthritis
What is alternative medicine? Alternative medical treatments involve many different modalities, and many of these therapies may involve ancient healing techniques, which have a proven successful track record.
However, the fact that many of these therapies have fallen in the popularitiy polls, is not due to their lack of success, but rather to the [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Diet
If you have rheumatoid arthritis and are looking forward to a lifetime of prescription drugs, it may be worth your while to give some thought to your diet. If you could make an all out effort to change your diet, you just may get better, so isn’t it worth the effort to give a healthy [...]
Homeopathy for Arthritis
Many people consider homeopathy to be of no use because the remedies homeopaths use don’t have anything in them other than alcohol and water. Some say if sick people have a positive reaction to the remedy it must have been a placebo effect. This most definitely can happen, however, the fact that these remedies produce [...]
Homeopathy for Arthritis or whatever else ails you
No matter what the name of your disease may be, homeopathy can help you, for the homeopath is not really interested in the name of your disease, but rather what drives your dis-ease state. Actually it’s not a what which drives your disease, it’s a who, it’s you!
All the diseases in the [...]
Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a form of arthritis in which the bones experience excessive calcium loss, resulting in decreased bone density. Loss of calcium and reduced bone density can result in brittle bones and fractures.
Women are more prone to developing osteoporosis. They become much more prone to developing the condition after the age of 40, after the [...]
