Arthritis

Understanding Arthritis
by National Institute on Aging
Arthritis literally means joint inflammation, and it can affect joints in any part of the body. Joints are places in the body where two bones meet. Many people use the term arthritis to refer to rheumatic diseases

Arthritis and Seniors
by National Institute on Aging
Arthritis is not just a word doctors use when they talk about painful, stiff joints. In fact, there are many kinds of arthritis, each with different symptoms and treatments. Most types of arthritis are chronic.

Arthritis: COX-2 Inhibitors
Healing Joint Pain Naturally: Safe and Effective Ways to Treat Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and Other Joint Diseases
by Ellen Hodgson Brown
In an effort to circumvent the ulcer problem, drug manufacturers developed the Cox-2 inhibitors. These are 'super aspirins' that block the Cox-2 enzyme that drives inflammation but don't block the Cox-1 enzyme that releases the prostaglandins protecting

Arthritis: Aspirin, Antacids and Acid-Blockers
Healing Joint Pain Naturally: Safe and Effective Ways to Treat Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and Other Joint Diseases
by Ellen Hodgson Brown
Aspirin, the grandfather of anti-inflammatories, has long been the most popular treatment for arthritis. Americans collectively pop more than 80 million aspirin tablets daily. Critics question whether the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would allow

Arthritis: The Disease, the Drugs, and Why Avoid Them
Healing Joint Pain Naturally: Safe and Effective Ways to Treat Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and Other Joint Diseases
by Ellen Hodgson Brown
For the more than 43 million sufferers of arthritis and similar afflictions, a safe, effective, natural method for reversing such diseases without drugs or potentially harmful side effects.

Juvenile Arthritis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Nearly 300,000 children in the United States have a form of juvenile arthritis or a rheumatic disease that occurs before age 16. The most common form in children is juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

Arthritis Treatment Devices, Diet and Exercise
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Two medical device products, Hyalgan and Synvisc, are preparations that mimic a naturally occurring body substance that lubricates the knee joint called hyaluronic acid. The products, which were approved by the FDA for the treatment of OA of the knee

Arthritis and Rheumatic Conditions, Biologic Treatments
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
For years, the pain and inflammation of arthritis have been treated using medications, local steroid injections, and joint replacement - all with varying success. Seldom did the therapies make the pain go away completely or for very long

The Burden of Arthritis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Although the clinical term literally means joint inflammation, arthritis actually refers to a group of more than 100 rheumatic conditions. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), self-reported doctor-diagnosed arthritis

Treatments Keep People With Arthritis Moving
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Few people with arthritis would be willing to stop taking a medication that works, especially when nothing else has. But what if joint pain and stiffness are inevitable if you don't take the medication, yet heart problems could occur if you do?

Exercise and Arthritis, Prevention Measures
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Proper exercises performed on a regular basis are an important part of arthritis treatment, according to the Arthritis Foundation. Twenty years ago, doctors advised exactly the opposite, fearing that activity would cause more damage and inflammation.

Rheumatoid Arthritis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Typical treatments for rheumatoid arthritis have relied on a combination of NSAIDs, such as ibuprofen or aspirin (which reduce swelling and alleviate pain but do not change the course of the disease) and disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)

Arthritis: Timely Treatments
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Although the term literally means joint inflammation, arthritis really refers to a group of more than 100 rheumatic diseases and conditions that can cause pain, stiffness and swelling in the joints.

Chronotherapy: Asthma, Arthritis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Successful treatment of diseases may depend on the time of day or month that a medicine is taken or surgery performed. Asthma and arthritis pain are among conditions now being treated by the clock or calendar.

Coping with Arthritis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
One in seven Americans has some form of arthritis. Medications - some of them nonprescription - and some kinds of exercise can provide relief. But consumers need to avoid fraudulent products that seem to proliferate in this profitable market.

Gout - Arthritis : Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
As with most illnesses, effective treatment of gout depends on a correct diagnosis. Gout can be unequivocally diagnosed by telltale uric acid crystals in joint fluid. But appropriate treatment is often started after a clinical diagnosis based on painfully

Gout: Arthritis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The word 'gout' may conjure up visions of overindulging 16th-century kings. But the condition - a form of arthritis related to uric acid levels in the blood - is also a modern malady affecting about 1 million Americans and treatable with a variety of drug

Types of Arthritis: Spondyloarthropathies, Lyme Disease
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The spondyloarthropathies are a collection of disorders that tend to affect the spine and include: Reiter's syndrome, psoriatic arthritis, intestinal arthropathy, juvenile ankylosing spondylitis, reactive arthropathy, and the most common type, ankylosing

Types of Arthritis: Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Arthritis treatment seems to attract charlatans peddling miracle cures, folk remedies, and superstition. Over the years, people with arthritis have been advised to cover themselves with horse manure, wear copper bracelets, sit in abandoned radium mines

Arthritis : Biologics Block Cytokines, Joint Replacement
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Today, the first pharmaceutical line of defense against arthritis is the NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), which include the salicylates, such as aspirin, prescribed at higher than usual doses.