Are you one of the 21 million Americans suffering from the debilitating, life-altering effects of arthritis? Stem cells can be delivered to your affected area via an injection to provide your joint the relief and regeneration it needs. Successful stem cell therapy for your arthritis will address your pain and improve your current quality of life. Regenerative therapy carries the potential to trigger new cartilage or bone formation. Find out if you are a candidate for stem cell therapy today!
What Is Arthritis?
Arthritis is any form of inflammation of the joints that causes symptoms such as pain, stiffness and loss of movement. The arthritis can be in any joint of the body, and the name usually changes depending on where your arthritis is located and how your arthritis works.
Osteoarthritis, for example, is a condition known as “degenerative joint disease”. This is the most common type of arthritis that patients have, affecting about 27 million Americans. Patients usually have pain, swelling and other symptoms in their knees, legs, hips, back or neck, even though they can have this arthritis in any part of the body. In between the joints you have cartilage. This is a soft, cushioned substance that makes your movements possible without feeling pain every time you move a limb. With osteoarthritis, the cartilage between the joints and bones breaks down over time, or “degenerates”. This makes moving painful, and swelling and inflammation occurs. The more inflammation that happens, the more the joint breaks down.
Rheumatoid arthritis is also common, but it functions differently than osteoarthritis. Instead of the joints wearing away on their own over time, the body actually attacks a person’s joints. This is an autoimmune disease, where the body sees a person’s joints as a foreign body, much like a virus or a bacteria. In response to this disease, the body tries to get rid of the “foreign” substance, so it creates inflammation that thickens the tissues of the joints. That causes swelling and pain and the inflammation damages cartilage over time. Both forms of arthritis can be very debilitating and painful to patients, no matter the location in the body.
Facts About Arthritis
- Arthritis causes symptoms such as chronic pain, stiffness, swelling, inflammation, redness, limited range-of-motion and tenderness.
- There are over 100 different types of arthritis.
- 1.5 million people in the United States have diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis.
- Animals can develop arthritis.
- If you are injured often, you have a higher risk of developing arthritis.
- Children can develop arthritis just like adults, except their is referred to as “juvenile rheumatic disease”.
- The earlier you treat arthritis symptoms, the better quality of life you can have in the long run.
- Physical and chiropractic rehabilitation can significantly help patients with arthritis symptoms.
Treatments to Help This Condition
If you have arthritis, don’t let it rule your life! If you do, your condition can progress rapidly. What you should do is fight back against arthritis and keep your body as healthy as possible. Start with anti-inflammatory joint injections. Joint injections can soothe pain while halting joint and cartilage breakdown, and can also provide lubrication for the joints.
Chiropractic adjustments can help relieve the pressure placed on the joints when the body is out of alignment. When your joints are already hurting you, you don’t want to make them worse. Come in for a chiropractic adjustment and have your body realigned. This can help relieve some of your pain and inflammation right away. Did you know that you can also exercise even though you have arthritis? In fact, for some patients, customized exercise and stretching programs can lower the irritation you feel without further damaging your joints. Coupling exercise with massage therapy, you can restore flexibility to stiff joints and limbs. Regenerative therapy is also doing wonders for our patients who suffer from arthritis.
Stem Cell Therapy
Regenerative therapy is a simple, yet revolutionary treatment for people with chronic pain, chronic conditions and injuries. For over 30 years, stem cell therapy has been used to help cancer patients with bone marrow cancers regenerate their bone marrow and red blood cells. Regenerative therapy is also beneficial for helping combat the effects of arthritis. Stem cells are cells that every person is born with. These are neutral cells that can turn into any other type of cell. They lie dormant in your own body until you sustain an injury.
When an injury strikes, your blood platelets rush to the site of injury and your stem cells follow them. As blood platelets clot the wound, stem cells begin to transform into the cell type your body needs to rebuild muscle, tissue, bone and more. Stem cell therapy was created with the idea that you can be injected with donor sources of stem cells. The injection goes into a specific area, and instead of healing slowly over time, you can heal quicker with many new stem cells working to help you. Plus, stem cells solutions are naturally anti-inflammatory, meaning that they can reduce your joint inflammation as they work to help your body heal. Consider stem cell therapy if you want relief from chronic pain caused by arthritis.
Combat Your Arthritis Today
Sometimes, the activities you do can lead to a higher risk of developing arthritis. Be aware of this if you are always doing repetitive activities such as jogging, typing or athletic activities that stress out your joints. Hereditary conditions can cause arthritis and diabetes can lead to problems with the joints as well. Also watch your weight, as obesity leads to added strain and inflammation of the joints.
No matter the cause of your arthritis, seeking treatment as early as possible is your best bet for finding relief from your symptoms. If chronic joint pain is limiting your daily routine or preventing you from activities you enjoy, stem cell therapy may be the remedy for your symptoms! Call Spine Correction Center today at (970) 658-5115 for your free arthritis and stem cell therapy consultation.
