ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATISM

Arthritis is a disease of the whole body (a systemic disease) that is most dramatically seen in the joints. The word "arthritis" may include may include more than 100 conditions. Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and gout are just a few of the diseases that can be classified as a type of arthritis.

THE MEDICAL APPROACH TO ARTHRITIS
The medical profession offers no cure for arthritis. The underlying cause is unknown. Therefore, most medical doctors treat the symptoms of arthritis - a lifetime of taking prescribed drugs, heat, hot packs or exercising in warm water and similar treatments are suggested. If a joint becomes severely deteriorated, then surgery may be considered.

Aspirin, while it may reduce pain, stiffness, and inflammation, often requires eight to 24 tablets a day and can cause stomach irritation, bleeding, and ulcers. Drugs such as Tylenol, Indocin, Advil, and Naprosyn can cause kidney damage, and hemorrhage of the esophagus, stomach, duodenum and small intestine. Approximately 10,000 arthritic suferers die every year from the gastrointestinal complications of various arthritic drugs. Other arthritic drugs can cause actual thinning of bones and side effects of the newest arthritic medications are often unknown until they are on the market and being used after a period of time.

THE CHIROPRACTIC APPROACH
Chiropractic is not a treatment for arthritis, but if you have arthritis you must have your spine checked for vertebral subluxations by a chiropractor. Vertebral subluxations weaken your nervous system, stress the immune system, put the body in a weakened state and can set the stage for sickness and diseases of all types -- arthritis included.

For over a century, chiropractors have observed positive changes and improvement in arthritis in many of their arthritic patients.

Searching out the most natural, conservative methods before submitting to more dangerous (drug and medical) care. The body has a wisdom that far exceeds our own. It can cure diseases that have no known cure. It has done so in arthritic cases where the disease simply disappears.