Osteopathy and Arthritis

Arthritis refers to over 500 conditions. This condition causes inflammation to many different joints and tissues around those joints in the body. This condition is associated with cartilages of the body. The function of the cartilages is to protect your joints and allow the joints to move without any difficulty when you are trying to walk, run or lift something. Due to the breakdown of cartilage, the amount of cartilage reduces to great extent. As a result, there is less protection for joints and bones. Due to the reduced amount of cartilage, bones begin to rub together when you try to walk, run or lift an object. So, you feel pain in the joints which is termed as arthritis.

The joints start to swell, and become stiff. The pain sometimes becomes unbearable. In this article, we are going to talk about how to treat arthritic with the help of osteopathy treatments.

Doctors have identified more than one hundred kinds of arthritis. Unfortunately, the number is still on the rise. According to doctors, there are scores of factors out there that can cause arthritis. Each factor can cause different types of arthritis. Let us take an example to spell out this point more clearly. Osteoarthritis is one of the more common kinds of arthritis. This type of arthritis is caused by wear and tear of the body cartilage. Another common type is known as rheumatoid arthritis. This type causes inflammation which is the result of an abnormal activity in your immune system. Other common types, such as pseudo-gout and gout are caused by significant metabolic abnormalities in your body. Last but not least, systematic lupus erythematosus is caused by factors, such as immune disease and infections.

Apart from joint pain, you may show a variety of other symptoms in case your body is attacked by arthritis. Some common symptoms include skin redness around the painful joints, difficulty in moving the joints, stiff joints, and warmth around the affected joints. If you are showing these symptoms, you should take immediate steps in order to treat the arthritis-stricken joints. This means you should get in touch with an experienced and qualified osteopath. Experienced osteopaths examine the effected joints and suggest various effective treatments in order to reduce the pain in the joints. All you have to do is to make sure the osteopath is qualified and experienced.

A bona fide osteopath will apply treatments in order to mobilize the painful joints. Massage is the common treatment they suggest in order to enable the joints to move smoothly. At the same time, the suggested treatments reduce pain in the joints. The treatment methods can reduce the pain even if you are suffering from severe arthritis. Lifestyle change is also necessary in order to keep arthritic away for evermore.

Arthritis is one of the most common conditions that are hard to treat. With the help of an osteopath, you will most likely get rid of this condition. Try out arthritis osteopathic treatments today!

At Osteoworks in Auckland we provide arthritis osteopathic treatment. Our experienced osteopaths can treat many conditions such as: insomnia, asthma, sciatica and others.