Arthritis pain relief: exercise
December 4th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed
Exercise can be a huge help with arthritis. Even easy yoga exercises can help, for example.
I do some yoga every day, along with flexibility exercises.
HealthDay reports on the benefits of arthritis:
“Keeps joints from feeling and acting stiff.
Strengthens muscles surrounding the joints.
Improves joint flexibility and alignment.
Reduces joint pain and swelling.
Strengthens bone and cartilage tissue.
Makes you more physically fit overall.”
I’ve found that when I forget to exercise, even for one day, my arthritis is worse. So exercise — every little bit helps.
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Upper Back Pain - is exercise the cause?
July 11th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
One of the most common causes of upper back pain is exercise - exercising before warming up properly, or lifting something heavy without preparing properly.
If your back pain was caused by exercise and just threw yourself into a workout regimen, your muscles are in shock and rebelling against this all-too-sudden change.
When you start exercising, it’s vital to start slowly. Many men think that as long as they can lift it, they should be fine, but really it can only result in injuries. You need to start with the lowest weight on the machine, do a couple of repetitions, and when you begin to feel the burn, stop. Do not keep pushing, because that burning sensation means the muscles are becoming strained.
Stay on that lowest weight for a day or two, and do not just focus on lifting weights as an exercise regimen. Lift weights for a little while and then do another form of exercise to have a variety. If you are very much overweight and older, you should be on the safe side and hire a personal trainer for a session or two to help you design a good workout plan.
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Ankylosing spondylitis affects the spine and sacroiliac joints
June 18th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
One of the rarest forms of arthritis is the ankylosing spondylitis, which is more common in males than in females.
Some of the early signs of ankylosing spondylitis may occur even at an early age, where the patient experiences recurring painful joints. It also shows pain and stiffness at the lower part of the spine. It is also associated with iritis that causes eye pain, and photophobia that increases one’s sensitivity to light. Some patients may also experience mouth ulcers, fatigue, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, psoriasis, and Reiter’s disease.
Like some types of arthritis, there’s no direct test to diagnose ankylosing spondylitis, proper laboratory tests and medical examinations must be conducted first before one can be diagnosed with this disorder.
There are certain degrees or levels in which ankylosing spondylitis are ranged, since this is a progressive type of arthritis, and there are some which can be medically controlled. However, ankylosing spondylitis, has no known cure, there are only available treatments and medications that can control the symptoms, and reduce the pain.
Physical therapy, exercise, and medicine, help the patients diminish the pain, stiffness, and inflammation, caused by ankylosing spondlylitis. For those with severe cases of ankylosing spondylitis, patients can opt to undergo a sugery for joint replacement, but there are procedures which may be risky, especially if the affected areas are the spine and neck.
If one is affected by such disease, it is important that one takes measures in order to suppress its progress, although it will still continuously be present even until adulthood. Though, there may not be a cure for ankylosing spondylitis, it is still significant on a patientís part to ask a physician of how to improve his condition, to keep the painful attacks from coming, and to avoid the early onset of having a bamboo spine.
Additional info: Ankylosing spondylitis, abbreviated as AS, actually has been known in different terms such as: Marie-Strumpell Disease, Bechterew’s Disease, Bechterew syndrome, Marie-Struempell disease, and spondyloarthritis. It is a chronic, progressive, and inflammatory type of arthritis that affects the spine and sacroiliac joints. It ultimately leads to the complete rigidity of the spine, which is called as the “bamboo spine”.
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