Tips for Your Aching Joints

As we age, we start feeling pain and stiffness on some, if not most, of our joints, especially if we have not been quite active like athletes are.   Our hands, knees or shoulders might feel sore and hard to move.   We shouldn’t wait for joints to become swollen before we act on pain brought about byarthritis joint pain.

What is arthritis?

Arthritis may be caused by inflammation  of the tissue lining the joints, the signs of which could be redness, some hot feeling on the joints, pain, and swelling. These are definitely  telling you something is wrong, because where there is pain, there is something which is not good, right?   To review, joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee, and often times, people complain of pain on their knee joints, hip joints or the ankle joints.

How to keep pain away:

When you are just starting to feel those joint pains, it would help if you will take note of the following to prevent arthritisfrom getting the best of you:

• Try to decrease your weight.  Experience tell us that being overweight also causes these joint pains.  You will notice that attacks of pain and soreness may disappear with the loss of some kilos.   When your knees and hips hurt, they’re telling you they cannot carry your weight!
• Have an exercise regime on a regular basis, daily if possible.  Joints are like metals that can get rusty when they don’t get some action.  Dance, do someaerobics, workout; any form of sweating activities will keep you like oiled machinery. Even going for a walk every day is good for you, too.  (Come wintertime or cold seasons, exercise more and sweat more, even if it’s only inside your home.)
• Take warm showers in the morning.  Cold showers, if you will pay attention to how you feel afterwards, seem to make the pain worse.  Grandma used to tell us that we are allowing cold to set in our bones, causing it to hurt more.
• Try the avocado leaves (alligator pear) as cure for aching joints. It’s a very simple cure that only requires passing the leaves swiftly over a flame and dabbing it lightly with coconut or baby oil before it is patched on your joints, hips, lower back, knee or wherever there is joint pain.
• For pain reliever, a lot of  people use herbs or medicines can be bought without a prescription.  But grandma taught us not to depend on medicines for every little pain, right?  If your pain is frequent and you experience swelling, you should see your doctor. Only a doctor can tell if you really  have arthritisor a related condition and what to do about it.