Arthritis, the most painful autoimmune disease, arises mainly in the body weight-bearing joints and surrounded tissues. It’s mainly a group of diseases together which actually cause pain, inflammation, stiffness, numbness, and swelling in body joints. The word arthritis actually means the disease of joints. There are about 100 types of arthritis present and unfortunately, it’s an incurable disease. But some medical treatments and home remedies could be actually useful to ease the continuous pain and inflammation.

Types of arthritis:

Depending on the types of arthritis the treatment of the disease could vary. So it’s very important to know the type of arthritis you are possessing.

1)    Osteoarthritis:

 The most common arthritis type is Osteoarthritis which generally attacks the smaller or larger joints of our body like wrist, hip, knee, back, and feet etc.

Cause of osteoarthritis: the main cause of osteoarthritis is generally known as the continuous wear and tear of the joints of our body. But recent studies show that there is a huge possibility that osteoarthritis could arise from past injuries or some other diseases like limb deformities, dysplasia, or acetabular over coverage etc. Any kind of deformities in the bone joint could later be aroused as osteoarthritis and mainly hip, knee and shoulder-back type weight-bearing joints mainly get affected out of it.

2)    Rheumatoid arthritis:

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one type of most painful autoimmune disease. In autoimmune disease, our body’s immune system mistakes the body’s healthy cells as the enemy and attacks them, which eventually causes all different kinds of diseases. RA can cause symmetric joint pains in both the sides of the body and it could appear in the fingers, hands, wrists, elbow, and knee etc. areas.

Causes of Rheumatoid arthritis:

In Rheumatoid arthritis, our immune system attacks the body’s joint linings and cartilage, which causes erosion of bone-joints. Later it causes inflammation in those parts, and gradually affects the whole body.

3)    Gout:

Gout is also a most common type of arthritically borne disease which causes redness, swelling, pain, and numbness in the joints. Gout is a chronic disease which can continue for years depending on the treatment. Generally, it begins suddenly in one of the two joints and if remains untreated then it can spread around the other joints like knees, fingers, toes, and elbows etc.

Causes of Gout:

Gout arthritis can cause similar problems like rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. The main cause of gout is the presence of uric acid in the blood. If it remains unattained, then the uric acid present in the blood get disposed in the joints and form needle-like structures or crystals to cause severe pain, swelling, redness, numbness, and tenderness. Generally at the beginning gouty pain attacks the tows.

Other types of arthritis are psoriatic arthritis, septic arthritis, lupus, and fibromyalgia etc.

Symptoms of arthritis:

In most of the cases, all types of arthritis show the same kind of symptoms. At first, arthritis occurs in one joint and then gradually it spreads through the whole body. Most common symptoms are chronic and severe pain in joints, muscle spasm, tenderness, stiffness, numbness, swelling, and redness of the affected area. Along with these symptoms, in the case of gout- kidney stone and tophi, and in the case of rheumatoid arthritis- bone erosion, back pain can arise. In some cases allergy, depression, weight loss, appetite loss etc. can be seen. Mostly, disability of joints and loss of the ability of body movements occur in arthritis.

Age and gender of arthritis:

Arthritis can happen to anybody, though it’s generally very common in women. Mainly after or during pregnancy, due to the high rate of increase in upper body weight, lower body joints get affected mostly which later causes arthritis. Other than this, lack of vitamin can also causes bone erosion. But studies show that rheumatoid arthritis is generally common in women, while men mostly get affected by gout.

In case of arthritis, age doesn’t matter. At any age, anyone can possess arthritis. But it’s true that with increased age the chances of getting arthritis increases.

Obesity can be your enemy in case of arthritis:

It’s also stated that arthritis can be caused due to obesity. So maintaining a healthy weight is very necessary to avoid the achy joint. Upper body weight forces more pressure to lower body joints, which eventually causes erosion in bones and joints and causes Rheumatoid arthritis.

Some friendly foods to arthritis and some worst to worsen it:

When you are having arthritis pain in your body parts, then it’s really necessary to take care of your diet. There are some foods you can take to control your pain to some level.

Some best foods can be 4 to 6 glasses of wine in a week, double toned milk, almond, cherry, fish, virgin olive oil etc. It’s a proven fact that turmeric can really help you to cure inflammatory pain. So try to take ½ a teaspoon of turmeric with ginger and warm water to avoid achy joint.

Some worst foods to arthritis are trans-fat, beer, red meat, soda, and junk food etc.

Some useful home remedies to ease the pain:

It’s a very unfortunate fact that arthritis is an incurable disease. But with some useful home remedies, you can ease the tremendous pain a little bit. Some useful home remedies could be daily Pranayama, stretching exercises, dry hot and cold therapy, massaging in the affected areas and muscles, giving extra care and rest to the joints, managing a very healthy weight, avoiding forward and backward bending and lifting heavy things, avoid working while continuously standing or sitting in one area, and last but not the least avoid climbing stairs etc.

Treatment:

It’s true that there are no curable remedies to arthritis. But some anti-inflammatory tablets, analgesics and for OA paracetamol type medications could give you relief momentarily.

Also, physiotherapy has been proven as a very effective method to ease arthritis pain. The exercises given by the therapist could really cure the pain to some extent and can build the muscle strength.

Just like physiotherapy, acupuncture could also give you momentary relief from the pain. But if someone can continue acupuncture methods in the affected areas it could really show some effective result.

Chiropractic therapy can also be taken to cure muscle spasm which causes due to arthritis. It gives a great deal of satisfaction and relief in the pain.

Other than this, in the worst case scenarios, you can have rheumasurgical and arthroscopic surgeries to avoid the pain. But it’s good to mention here that these type of surgeries doesn’t provide long-term cure to the pain. Eventually, it comes back. Knee replacement can also be another option to avoid the tremendous pain of arthritis.

So, if you are already a victim of arthritis then try these home remedies to get some relief in your painful daily life. But if you are a beginner in this, and facing the symptoms of arthritis right now, then don’t be any more late to consult with a doctor. Early treatments could really help you avoid the painful insight of arthritis.