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Magnetic Arthritis Relief Are There New Treatments For Arthritis Pain?

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Are There New Treatments For Arthritis Pain?

Living with the chronic pain of arthritis at times can feel overwhelming. First you are not alone. “In a recent poll (based on a national survey of 2,002 adults aged 18 and older, conduction by The Gallup Organization from May 21-June 9, 1999), nine out of ten Americans reported they have pain at least once a month, and for 15 percent of them, the pain is severe.” Dealing with pain can be the most difficult part of having arthritis or a arthritis related condition, however, you can find out how to manage your pain, and its impact it has on your life.

To understand how pain affects you both physically and physiologically you need to find out from a doctor which type of arthritis or condition you have. This well help you develop a plan that will include your western doctor’s medical protocols, and if you choose a naturopathic practitioner who can offer some alternative therapies such as; acupuncture, magnetic arthritis relief therapy, tai chi, acupressure, exercise, diet modification, and other natural healing therapies.

WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF PAIN?

Chronic arthritis pain is caused by:

Inflammation, the process that causes the redness and swelling in your joints

Muscle strain caused by overworked muscles attempting to protect your joints from painful movements

Fatigue caused by the disease process, which can make your pain seem worse and harder to handle.

Damage to joint tissues caused by the disease process or from wear and tear.

WHAT ARE THE EMOTIONAL EFFECTS OF PAIN?

The emotional effects of chronic arthritis pain:

Medications. Medications that limit the effect of pain may also produce troublesome side-effects such as stomach problems or excessive sleepiness. Unfortunately some patients become reliant on pain killers to sleep or function through the day

Loss of mobility. One of the key factors is the severe effect that chronic pain has on limiting mobility. Being unable to move around comfortably, constantly being constrained by pain, being unable to enjoy intimacy with one’s spouse or carrying a child without fear of injury can leave someone with stained and tired emotions.

Depression. Patients with depression are also more sensitive to note their own pain, and this can create problems with enjoying life, for fear of encountering more pain. The combination of immobility and depression leads to irritability, nervousness or anxiety prevent people from socializing with others outside their home. Marital conflicts can develop as depression sets in, as individual suffering from chronic pain tend to become more angry, easily frustrated, often moody, and plagued with feelings of despair.

Sleep Disturbances. Chronic pain also influences the amount of sleep the patient is able to get. Difficulty falling asleep and early night awakenings both contribute to progressive depression, sluggishness, and poor memory. This can lead to other problems, such as strength and balancing, and can lead to accidents.

Anxiety. Pain may feature in anxiety disorders because of increased muscle tension or spasms. Tension headaches, shoulder pain, neck pain and other pains that afflict the musculoskeletal system may occur.

If you are one of the people hoping that new pain management is on the horizon, you might find this article from WEBMD a very interesting read…..

Can Pain Cause Arthritis?

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Sept. 29, 2008 — Arthritis hurts, and that pain itself may be what keeps the disease going, mouse studies suggest.

When a pain signal from an arthritic joint reaches the spine, there’s a burst of chemical signals, note University of Rochester researcher Stephanos Kyrkanides, DDS, PhD, and colleagues.

One result of this burst of signals is that the spine becomes inflamed in the area where the nerve from the joint attaches. Another result is that signals travel backward from the spine to the joint.

If that signal is interrupted, Kyrkanides and colleagues find, two things happen.

As might be expected, the joint is less painful. But to their surprise, Kyrkanides found that interrupting this joint/spine "cross talk" allows the joint to heal in mice with osteoarthritis.

"This cross talk is oil to the fire of arthritis," Kyrkanides tells WebMD. "Trying to stop joint inflammation with the traditional drugs we have is inadequate — because it tries to address the joint but fails to address this newly discovered mechanism where pain is progressing along the nerve from the spine."

In studies with arthritic mice, the researchers used a gene therapy to block a chemical messenger, IL-1B. The mice stopped their pain behavior. And their joints got better.

"It proves the processing of pain in the joint actually contributes to arthritis itself," Kyrkanides says. "We were very impressed to see we could control arthritis progression and allow for spontaneous healing if, by targeting IL-1B, we could control the pain at the spinal cord or along the sensory nerves."

It’s a "very exciting" finding, says osteoarthritis expert Farshid Guilak, PhD, professor of orthopedic surgery at Duke University.

"This can open up a whole new way of treating osteoarthritis by saying if you treat pain properly, you can affect the disease," Guilak tells WebMD. "That is opposite of what we say now. We worry if you just treat the pain, it can make the joint worse because the patient will overuse it. So if pain affects joint degeneration, it would point to very exciting ways to develop new treatments for arthritis."

The idea that pain can keep a disease going makes sense to pain expert Allan Platt, PA-C, of the Emory University School of Medicine.

"This is evidence you can actually reduce disease severity by treating pain," Platt tells WebMD. "It is an important discovery that changes in the joint happen because of signals in the pain loop."

Although Kyrkanides and colleagues are working on a gene therapy that could be used in humans, existing drugs already target relevant chemical signals along the pain circuit. One is the IL-1 blocker Kineret, used by adults with treatment-resistant rheumatoid arthritis. It is not approved for treating osteoarthritis. Because it dampens immune responses, it increases the risk of infections.

Kyrkanides suggests that such drugs might be most effective for osteoarthritis if injected directly into the point where the nerves from affected joints meet the spine.

"This would be quite feasible and one of the first things to try in a pilot study," says Guilak. He notes that Kineret is already being tested in patients with osteoarthritis — but as a systemic or inside-the-joint treatment, not as a way to block the pain circuit.

"The beauty of this is it does not require the invention of new drugs, just new uses of existing medication," Kyrkanides says.

He predicts that in the future, the feedback-loop theory of osteoarthritis will change the way doctors treat the disease.

"This is a radical shift in our understanding of osteoarthritis," Kyrkanides says. "The big change here is pain treatment at the right targets has to be an integral part of the overall management of arthritis."

The Kyrkanides paper appears in the October issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatis

Mouse Study: Arthritis Gets Better when Joint/Spine Pain Loop Is Broken in Mice

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