The word means inflammation of the joints , and it includes it its painful embrace over 100 distance disease forms. Arthritis may be mild swelling of a single joint, which yields easily to a month of drug therapy, nutritional therapy or no therapy at all, or it can be a vicious, agonizing condition that inexorably spreads through every joint in the body. It can be caused by bacteria, by a virus or by a disruption of body chemistry or by too much stress. And no one knows why osteoarthritis a wearing away of cartilage so common that doctors call it part of the normal aging process, remains a mere nuisance for some people but becomes crippler for others. Also unknown is why rheumatoid arthritis follows such an erratic course.
Every family member has to adjust to the situation created by the presence of an arthritic member.
There are over the hundred different types of arthritis some with devastating effects on your future health, careful diagnosis as soon as symptoms are noticed is important. Unani herbal medicines are the only cure to arthritis available today. Females are more likely to have arthritis than males. Some women develop arthritis in their early 20 s or at a younger age. Rheumatoid arthritis is the most serious type.