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“Arthritis is the major cause of disability and chronic pain in Americans.” –anonymous

According to a Swedish research wherein they traced almost 700 adults with the average age of 58, who happens to have a commonality upon experiencing rheumatoid arthritis for around six months at the commencement of the research. The result obtained that two-thirds of the patients are women. Arthritis is the common term used for the inflammation of the joints. Rough estimate of 100 types of arthritis are now known but the most frequently experienced by women are rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis. The said disease is proven to be the key reason of immobility and constant pain in Americans.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most usual type of arthritis; it actually develops when a cartilage or the smooth covering over the bones in our joints starts to wear down usually it results from aging, trauma or increase wear and tear. While rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a universal autoimmune illness in which our immune cells strike and inflame the membranes around different joints, it is typically unceasing and degenerating and it has an unknown cause. Particular types of infection (such as Lyme and syphilis) are identified to cause an unrelenting arthritis.

There are various risk factors in terms of the two aforementioned types of arthritis. For OA it has been discovered to be of multifactorial origin such as the theory that it is genetically passed yet most OA [patients show not a single sign. The risks that might amplify the probability of acquiring OA includes: being overweight, unceasing stress transversely joints, several microfractures in the linked bone, major trauma or other metabolic or inflammatory damage, and not to mention the fallacy of cracking knuckles also increases the risk. On the side of RA, it is deemed to be interconnected with genetic, hormonal, environmental and other aspects. In the 1950s birth control pills may have contributed in preventing and ameliorating RA. Evidence also showed that the menstrual cycle increases symptoms of RA whereas the changeover into menopause also intensifies the symptoms.

Since arthritis has long been experienced yet only recently been given an attention a lot of myths and fallacies surfaced which science now dares to disprove. One example would be the myth that Arthritis being a natural effect of aging, it is false because it is not a ‘by-product’ of aging, aging only increases the risk of acquiring OA. Next would be the myth that arthritis only hits women. While it has been true that most women are prone to be affected by arthritis, recent studies showed that more than half of all men that are over 65 also have OA.

Due to modernization an array of options are now developed to ameliorate cases of arthritis, to cite a few would be acupuncture, drugs, prescription medications, alternative and adjunctive therapies, exercise, surgery, psychological support and also proper diet to enhance ones quality of life that would eventually reduce the risk of acquiring arthritis.

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