There are millions who suffer from arthritis-related symptoms in the United States, a number which continues to grow every year. Remedies and medications abound, both prescription and over-the-counter, to combat these symptoms, but none get to the root of the cause of arthritis or work to prevent it. Does this mean that if you are one of the millions afflicted with arthritis you are without hope? Absolutely not.
Helping arthritis sufferers live a more fulfilling, more abundant life revolves around understanding what your body is trying to tell you; pain and other symptoms can lead you to better understand what your body is going through so you can take action steps to help it. There are several different kinds of arthritis, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, yet they all primarily affect the joints, causing some form of swelling of the tissues of and around the joints.
The key to understanding arthritis is to know that the body does everything it does for a reason. It has a centralized intelligence called innate intelligence which controls and manages countless processes throughout the body every moment of every day. Without it we would spend all of our time trying to remember to breathe while at the same time making our heart pump blood, our digestive system process food, our glands produce and release hormones and our bones resorb and deposit bone. Thankfully, our innate intelligence takes care of all of these processes instead, completely automatically.
Keep in mind that there are thousands if not millions of processes going on inside the human body every moment of the day. All of these different processes are necessary for us to live and function. If any or several go awry, damage begins to accumulate within our body and normal processes begin to be replaced by abnormal ones. This is the cause of arthritis.
Joints depend on movement, a healthy blood supply and proper nerve supply to function properly. If you interrupt or even alter slightly any one of these three factors your joints start to suffer and problems will begin to develop. For many Americans, these problems actually begin to develop in the late teens and early 20's but go unnoticed because there are few symptoms and our bodies are able to continue to function without "screaming for help".
Once the joint motion is altered, whether it is from an injury or altered muscle or bone function, the joint's main method for bringing in nourishment and getting rid of waste - movement - is no longer as effective as it should be. The joint then begins a process of starvation while becoming toxic at the same time. The natural reaction of your body is to bring in greater blood flow, leading to an accumulation of fluid, also known as swelling. This process is not possible, however, unless a more serious problem is present first - an interruption of the normal nerve flow to the area.
Nerves carry messages from the brain (the home of innate intelligence) to every single cell throughout the body. If any of these messages are interrupted or worse yet � blocked, the parts of the body those nerves supply become isolated from the body's own wisdom and begin to malfunction. This interruption of nerve messages can be due to a nerve lesion, but more likely it is from a nerve irritation called a subluxation.
Subluxations are irritations of the nerves caused by a joint not being aligned properly. When they occur the joints affected no longer move properly and the blood flow to these joints is altered, setting the stage for arthritis to start.
To date, few health professionals recognize the importance of finding and correcting subluxations to prevent the devastating effects they have on the human body. Chiropractic is wholly focused on the detection and removal of these harmful subluxations.
Depending on the duration and severity of damage caused by subluxations, the outcome for arthritis sufferers varies. Nonetheless, many natural products exist on the market today that will help alleviate the pain and discomfort that arthritis causes while giving your body the time and opportunity to heal.
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