Arthritis Association With Pain Is Very Common – Can It Be Disassociated?

Did you know that ‘arthron’ means joint in Greek, and ‘itis’ means swelling. Hence, the terms ‘arthritis’ actually means joint swelling or joint inflammation. Some common questions that would crop up are - What causes arthritis? Why it is common to have arthritis associated with so much pain?

Arthritis Can Be Of Many Types

Basically, arthritis means bad joints in a layperson’s language. This happens because the cartilage is destroyed sometimes by friction, sometimes due to trauma, sometimes due to faulty immune system. Whatever be the reason, the basics remain the same. The joint(s) that are affected by this disease cannot be moved (and hence, used) anymore because the soft padding (cartilage) that was keeping the movement smooth and painless is no more there or disappearing fast.

There are many causes for arthritis – most of them are related to aging. People who are overweight and aged suffer the most when attacked by this disease. The extra weight increases the pressure exerted on the joints – particularly the hips, knees and ankles - and accentuate the pain further.

It is easy to see now why arthritis is associated with pain so closely. When the cartilage is damaged, the movement of the joint causes it to grind against each other – a feeling very similar with that of someone scratching an open wound. It is obvious then to understand why that pain occurs.

In advanced stages the arthritis association with pain is sustained by trauma to the bones itself and their breaking through continuous grinding against each other, splintering and so on. It is not unheard of to find that bones have fused totally with one another after the cartilage had totally gone. There are other instances when bunions grow as a direct result of arthritis. These too, explain clearly the arthritis association with pain, since these bone growths are deformations of the body in response to the disease.

There is no clear and/or fail-proof way to break the arthritis association with pain yet. However, there are a large number of studies conducted all over the world in search for this answer. Herbs, alternative medicine, animal extracts such as bees’ venom and many others have been tried and tested in search for a complete cure and possible reversal of this terrible disease.

There has been no consensus yet on this answer. However, hopes are soaring high with the renewed efforts in researching the power of natural remedies, which have shown a lot of promise in the recent past.