Arthritis Treated with Alternative Medicine

The idea of hopping on to a pair of skates to cure your knee arthritis may seem reckless and dangerous, but wait, these are not ordinary skates, they consist of shoes with balls built into the soles. These skates have been trialled on a number of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, the results were very positive, so much so that some patients canceled their knee operations. What theses skates do is build the muscles around the knee and so lessen the impact of weight bearing on the joint.

Go check the article in the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/dietfitness.html?in_article_id=454952&in_page_id=1774&ito=1490

Excess weight places far too much stress on healthy joints, for those of you with arthritic joints the importance of losing weight cannot be overemphasized.

No, this is not to be taken, but I have read a number of references to the use of wd-40 for the relief of the pain of arthritis. There are numerous references to its efficacy in providing pain relief when sprayed on painful joints.

It’ a great product when used appropriately for what it was intended, however spraying it on the skin when you have no idea what the ingredients are, does seem a little risky. The manufacturers declare the ingredients to be a secret, so there is no way of finding out what the long term effects might be with continued use.

If the manufacturer warns against skin contact and inhalation of its vapors, then spraying wd-40 directly on to your skin every time joints are painful, and inhaling its vapors, may prove to be extremely toxic indeed.