Arthritis pain in knee is waking me up.?The other night I woke up hollering because of a sharp pain in my knee and down my leg. It was terrible. The doctor tells me I have arthritis and has given me Naprelan 375mg (2 - at bedtime). Anyone else experience pain bad enough to wake you and if so what have you done to help find relief?
- DAVID H
I find excising the leg helps
- gillianprowe
Osteoarthritis, or wear and tear to the knee, is painful. What can be done? Well recent research suggest exercise, get the muscles around the knee strengthened and they will support the knee in correct alignment. Outside of that, loose weight and then knee replacement. Good Luck
Hydrotherapy improves strength and mobility in patients with osteoarthritis, research suggests.
The study also says patients would benefit from much higher intensity exercise than currently recommended.
Patients who used water therapy were able to walk better afterwards, and their muscle strength improved.
The research, by a team from Flinders University, South Australia, is published in the journal Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Patients with severe osteoarthritis may find that water provides the appropriate environment in which they can exercise
Flinders University
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis.
It is caused by the breakdown of protective tissue called cartilage in the joints.
Over 100 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip were randomly assigned to three different programmes lasting for six weeks. All were over 50, with the average age being 70.
One group of 35 exercised three times a week in a swimming pool, while a second group of 35 did the same amount of exercise in a gym.
The remainder received fortnightly phone calls to monitor their health, but did not take part in any exercise programme.
The hydrotherapy group had more severe symptoms than those in the other groups.
But despite this walking speed and distance improved significantly in both exercise groups compared with the group taking no exercise.
The gym group significantly increased thigh muscle (quadriceps) strength in both legs.
Hydrotherapy did not have such a pronounced effect - but it did improve the strength of the left thigh muscle.
It also helped to ease pain considerably.
Walking vital
The researchers stress that improving walking ability is extremely important in patients with osteoarthritis because it increases and maintains independence.
Increased muscle strength around affected joints not only helps to make them more stable, it also helps to absorb the shock of movement more effectively. This should help to prevent further deterioration.
The researchers say the benefit of hydrotherapy is that it increases cardiovascular fitness and allows patients to exercise with greater intensity than would be possible on land.
This may be particularly important for people with severe forms of the disease.
"Patients with severe osteoarthritis who find it painful to weight bear for extended periods may find that water provides the appropriate environment in which they can exercise at intensities that may confer significant health benefits," they say.
They also point out that the intensity, volume, and frequency of activity in both exercise groups were considerably higher than current recommendations laid down by the American Geriatrics Society - and the normal exercise programmes offered by the hospital at which the patients were being treated.
They say their findings suggest that higher intensity exercise can safely be prescribed for patients with osteoarthritis.
Keep active
A spokeswoman for the UK Arthritis Research Campaign told BBC News Online: "We have said for a long time that the worst thing people with osteoarthritis can do is to sit around doing nothing because the muscles around the joints become weaker: they start to feel tired and it becomes a vicious circle.
"Hydrotherapy is a fantastic way of exercising because it gets the heart and lungs going and it also strengthens the muscles and joints without putting them under too much pressure.
"If more GPs prescribed hydrotherapy instead of NSAID drugs many people with osteoarthritis would feel a great deal better. We would like to see GPs be a lot more proactive in keeping their patients with osteoarthritis as active as possible.
"Some people are afraid that exercise will wear out their joints more quickly, but along with losing weight it is the best thing they can do for themselves."
- MICHAEL and wendy
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- Sapphire
Eating raw butter, raw cream and raw milk everyday from grass fed cows in your diet will help. Along with taking 1-2 tablespoon of Cod Liver Oil per day will reduce the inflamation. You also need to reduce your carbohydrate (sugar) intake. And increase the good flora in your diet like yogurt, kefir, beet kvass, fermented foods like saurkraut etc. I'm serious. To find sources of raw dairy go to realmilk.com.
Raw butter has a Wulzen Factor. A hormone-like substance that prevents arthritis and joint stiffness, ensuring that calcium in the body is put into the bones rather than in the joints and other tissues.
The Wulzen Factor or "anti-stiffness factor," discovered by researcher Rosalind Wulzen is present in raw animal fat, this compound protects against degenerative arthritis, hardening of the arteries, cataracts, and calcification of the pineal gland. The Wulzen Factor is present only in raw butter and raw cream; it is destroyed by pasteurization.
Cod liver oil is effective in treating arthritis as well. Researchers funded by Great Britain's Arthritis Research Campaign found that the elongated omega-3 fatty acids in cod liver oil reduce both pain and damage in inflamed joints. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1817974.stm
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