Overcoming Arthritis!!

      Arthritis is simply define as inflammation in one or more joints. It is the main caused of disability among people age fifty-five years old above.

Causes of Arthritis:

1. Osteoarthritis- It is a type of arthritis were there is wear-and-tear damage to joint's ligaments (hard, slick coating at the end part of the bones). Severe damage could lead to grinding the bone to bone which causes a pain and decreases one's ability to move. 

2. Rheumatoid arthritis- A person's own immune system attacks the lining of the joint capsule. The lining which called synovial membrane become inflamed and swollen. If this condition progress, it will completely destroy the cartilage in the joints.

Home remedies for arthritis are very easy to  remember:

1. Heat/ Cold compress- Applying heat/cold compress in the affected area can help relieve pain of arthritis.

2. Reduce weight- If your obese, there is a great tendency that you are bearing much weight to your joints and it is a bad sign and could lead to arthritis later on.

3.  Regular exercise- It helps conditioned our joint and ligaments in moving always.

4. Avoid knuckling you fingers or finger toes.

5. Massage therapy- Massage increases the blood flow and increases the warmth in the affected area and will help relieve the pain.

      If we are just very careful with our lifestyle, food and activity, we are free from any other serious health problems that also include having arthritis.