WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT JOINT PAIN TREATMENTS?

Joints form the connection between your bones. They provide support and help you move appropriately. Joints can damage from disease or injury and can interfere with your movement and cause a lot of pain.

Joint pain is extremely common. Many different conditions can lead you to painful joints, which may include osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bursitis, gout, strains, sprains, and other injuries. Any part of your body can affect by joint pain, from your ankles and feet to your shoulders and hands. As you get older, painful joints become increasingly more frequent.

Joint pain usually range from mildly irritating to debilitating. It may be acute (doesn’t last for so long) or chronic (last for weeks or maybe months). Even short-term pain and swelling in the joints can affect your daily life. Whatever the cause of joint pain, you can usually manage it with joints pain treatment like medication, physical therapy, or alternative treatments.

What treatment options are available for joint pain?

First, doctor will try to diagnose and treat the condition that is causing your joint to hurt. The goal is to reduce inflammation and pain, and preserve joint function. Joints pain treatment options include:

Home treatment

Joints pain treatment which you can try at home works to manage your pain.

·         It might help you to use pain relievers or take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation.

·         Stay physically active and follow your fitness program focusing on moderate exercise.

·         Maintain a good range of motion in your joints by stretching before exercising.

·         Keep your body weight within a normal healthy range. This will lessen stress on the joints.

·         You can try taking a nonprescription, anti-inflammatory drug, getting a massage, taking a warm bath, stretching frequently, and getting adequate rest, if your pain isn’t due to arthritis.

Medications

For moderate-to-severe joint pain with swelling, an over-the-counter or prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), or naproxen sodium (Aleve), can use as joints pain treatment. They will provide relief. A newer generation of NSAIDs known as Cox-2 inhibitors is also good for pain relief, but all of these drugs have been removed from the market because of an increased risk of stroke, heart attack, and other cardiovascular events. NSAIDs also have side effects, potentially increasing your risk for gastrointestinal bleeding.

Other drugs which may help relieve pain include:

·         Muscle relaxants to treat muscle spasms (can be used together with NSAIDs to increase the effect)

·         Some antiepileptic and antidepressants drugs (which both interfere with pain signals)

Physical Therapy

It strengthens the muscles around your joint, stabilize the joint, and improve your range of motion. Techniques such as ultrasound, heat or cold therapy, electrical nerve stimulation, and manipulation are used in physical therapy.

Injections

For people who don't find joint pain relief from other joints pain treatment like oral or topical medications, the doctor can inject a steroid medication which may be combined with a local anesthetic directly into the joint after every three to four months.

LOW BACK PAIN; HOW TO CONQUER IT FOREVER?

Almost everyone experience low back pain at some point in their lives. It can occur due to variety of reasons. However different ways for conquering low back pain are as follows;

·         Limit Bed Rest

People with short-term low-back pain and rest feel more pain and have a harder time with their daily tasks than those who stay active. For conquering low back pain patients should avoid more than three days of bed rest.

·         Keep Exercising

Activity is often the best way of conquering low back pain. Simple exercises like walking can be helpful. However try to stay away from strenuous activities and avoid every motion caused the pain in the first place.

·         Maintain Good Posture

Most people have poor posture when it comes to their daily life activities; putting unnecessary strain on their backs adds pressure. You may also increase the pressure on your back by 50% by simply leaning over the sink incorrectly while brushing your teeth. Keeping the right amount of curvature in the back takes pressure off the nerves and will help to reduce back pain.

·         Strengthen Your Core

Most people with chronic back pain would prefer as they benefits from stronger abdominal muscles as conquering low back pain. Other areas pick up the slack if the abdominal are weak. Strengthen the abdominals often reduces the strain on the lower back.

·         Improve Flexibility

Too much tightness and tension cause back pain. Increasing flexibility puts an equal load throughout the body from the feet all the way up to the head. For conqueringlow back pain one good exercise is to sit on the edge of the bed with one leg extended and the other one on the floor.

·         Apply Ice and Heat

Cold packs and heating pads can comfort tender trunks. Using ice for the first 48 hours after an injury particularly if there is swelling and then switch to heat is beneficial. But it is difficult to say whether ice or heat is more beneficial. Patients should use whichever they find comfortable as long as their skin is protected.

·         Sleep the Right Way

The amount of rest you get is important but the position you get it in is more important for conquering low back pain. Sleeping on a mattress without support and with bad position can cause back pain.

·         Quit Smoking

Lighting up doesn’t only damage your lungs but it can also hurt your back.

A recently published study found that current and former smokers are more likely to have back pain when compared with people who have never smoked.

Pain management institute helps people to cure acute and chronic long term pain to resume a normal life style. PMI has provided many treatments like stem cell therapy and many others.

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