Thursday, December 27, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Introduction
Dear Friend,
Please spend 10 minutes on this page to gain knowledge for life.
I would like to explain how Arthritis occurs, and the direction it will take if you do nothing to halt its progress.
Every person must understand his or her own illness. Without that knowledge, it is very hard to grasp a physician’s advice. To fight arthritis, you must fight armed with the full power of information and understanding.
The better you know your disease, the better you can handle it. A full understanding of your condition will allow you to make the proper judgment of what needs to be done. Employ doctors as consultants to give you confidence about what direction to take. Only you can feel and describe what happens to you, and your medical professional will help you to determine your condition and way how to handle it. You have time to look around and find out what resources are available for you and how those resources may help.
Let’s look now at how our joints work, the nutrition they need, and their characteristic nature. This information is basic, but crucial for a fuller understanding of arthritis. Then we will see why arthritic pain occurs; what medication does, and what it does not do; and finally what more you can do to control the pain.
JOINT CONSTRUCTION
You probably already know a little about what our joints consist of and how they work. In the knee, for instance, we have two major bones : one on the top and one on the bottom. Between those two bones we have a kind of shock absorber that we call cartilage. The joint is surrounded by bag, called synovial bag or joint capsule, which holds lubrication called synovial fluid. Cartilage plays major role in saving your joint bones from damage. Cartilage takes load off your body, but cartilage is also a living cell like every other cell in our body. It needs “food” – nutrition--and has waste just like any living organism. Blood supplies the nutrition and removes the waste from our joints. Fresh blood feeds the joint via arteries, and removes the waist through veins.
BLOOD CIRCULATION AND YOUR JOINTS
Every organ of our body receives nutrition from blood, but inside the synovial capsule there is no blood. How then do our joints get nutrition? And how does the lubrication fluid enter the joint? Blood flows from large arteries, to smaller ones, to tiny capillaries. At that point, the flow slows; the heart is not strong enough to push blood through the billions of capillary in our bodies. Yet the capillary system is critical to our organs receiving blood. On one side of the capillary, there is a “valve” which opens when the capillary expands and closes when the capillary contracts. When a capillary contracts, it pushes blood only one direction--in our case, to the joint. Normally capillaries expand and contract when we are in motion—for instance, when we walk or run. Consequently, if we are not getting enough physical activity, which is common in advancing age, our joints may be starved of blood.
HOW CARTILAGE WORKS
Cartilage is in composition similar to other cells in our body; structurally, however, it has a different design. Cartilage needs nutrition like any living organism. Cartilage has a rough life serving as a kind-of shock absorber. When you move your foot up, for instance, cartilage sucks up synovial fluid to gets nutrition; and when you step down on your foot, the cartilage is compressed and synovial fluid expels toxins, or waste matter. These toxins are a by-product of cartilage. The synovial membrane around joint capsule perform this function, moving the waste into the veins, to be removed from the body.
I explain this process in some detail because it is important to understand how significant circulation is for the proper function of joints. So, on the one hand blood is critical to the joint to produce synovial fluid, and on the other hand, blood is the matter whereby waste is expelled from the joint capsule. Cartilage cells live and die under a variety of circumstances. When we gain weight, for instance, we create a greater load on our cartilage, which may damage it.
INFLAMATION AS BODY DEFENSE SYSTEM
What happens to dead cartilage? First, it must be removed form inside our joints. If these particles are not removed, our body will assume they are foreign objects and attack them with antibodies. This is a normal defensive measure which creates inflammation.
Inflammation is a raised temperature around foreign matter inside your body, which is an effort to try to kill it Inflammation combined with pain is a signal from the body that something is wrong and needs to be fixed. In the case of dead cartilage, the situation does not improve because poor blood circulation does not remove the dead cartilage, and with time only gets worse: the body calls for more antibodies, creating more inflammation and pain.
CAUSE OF PAIN
What do we usually do if we have pain?
Most people take a pill to suppress pain for temporary relief. Usually it is blood thinner, like aspirin. The pain is temporarily gone, but as we know, it will often return. Of course, we are only masking the pain, and not removing the source of the pain. Let’s look more closely why we feel pain and what pain means for us.
Pain is normal reaction of the body when something is going wrong. When pain begins, a lot of antibodies arrive at the source to push nerve mechanoreceptors (nerves pain sensor). These receptors produce electrical signals in our brain via neurotransmitters (“nerves wire”), telling us in effect that this area of the body has a problem. The more receptors involve the more acute pain.
Because a lot of people do not even want to think about the cause of a pain, they take more and more medication to mask the pain. When pain becomes severe, people are generally motivated to seek a doctor’s help.
Arthritis does not occur overnight. It takes years to reach the point of severe pain. And what can a medical professional do? Normally, a doctor will investigate the reason for the pain, and usually prescribe more exercise and more powerful pain suppressants. He is right about the exercise, although in the case of advanced arthritis or age, sufficient exercise may not be possible to relieve the pain. .
Often, traditional medicine will attempt to mask the pain using steroid injections. Unfortunately, steroids do not help for long. Moreover, the cause of pain is still not being addressed. Even an injection of artificial synovial fluid will not help for long, because the dead cartilage is not being removed. .
Next? Surgery? But surgery is not always a complete solution, and involves risks that may create other problems, greater pain and misery. Moreover, after surgery when your activity increases, more blood flows to the synovial capsule and cartilage begins to grow again; but after some time, when your activity decreases, the cycle will repeat.
My personal opinion is that surgery should be a last resort and only for those who have extensive bones damage and there is no other way solution available. Often, athletes are prime candidates for surgery due to the wear and tear on their bones and cartilage.
If we have enough blood coming to our joints, we will normally not suffer such wear and tear. This is really the difference between the view of traditional medicine and my own perspective. And so we now understand how critical blood flow is to the joint. .
CONCLUSION :
If you will continue to take pain suppressing pills, the arthritis will not stop. It will get worse and worse until your bone will be damaged and surgery became necessary.
Perhaps better to listen to Mother Nature and does what your body ask: increase blood circulation, removing toxins from your joints, regenerate your cartilage and not to takes pills. The pills may not work at all and, if they do suppress a pain but not for the long time. You will need ever more medications because cause of pain will be not removed and the problem still exists.
How ArthriFon® does help you?
It is this important flow of blood that is behind the development of our arthritic device, ArthriFon®.
Nevertheless, ArthriFon® does more than increase blood circulation in the joint. It also suppresses pain by disconnecting any signals between the mechanoreceptors (nerves pain sensors) and the brain until cause of pain will remove. You will needs just several applications to see a difference.
At the same time, as ArthriFon® increases blood circulation to and from the joint, it helps to clean up cell membranes and remove dead cartilage particles out of the joint, and also increasing the production of stem cells which are needed to repair cartilage.
By increasing blood circulation, the synovial membrane produces more synovial fluid, which allows cartilage to re-grow. Of cause, all of this cannot be done overnight; depending upon the severity of your condition, several weeks or months may be required for a joint to be returned to a more healthy state. But even after a few sessions with ArthriFon®, you will feel the difference.
I hope in this I have helped you to better understand your condition, the cause of your pain and distress. I hope I have also provided some suggestions for relief.
Cordially,
Yury Podrazhansky, PhD, President ECR Corp.
Please spend 10 minutes on this page to gain knowledge for life.
I would like to explain how Arthritis occurs, and the direction it will take if you do nothing to halt its progress.
Every person must understand his or her own illness. Without that knowledge, it is very hard to grasp a physician’s advice. To fight arthritis, you must fight armed with the full power of information and understanding.
The better you know your disease, the better you can handle it. A full understanding of your condition will allow you to make the proper judgment of what needs to be done. Employ doctors as consultants to give you confidence about what direction to take. Only you can feel and describe what happens to you, and your medical professional will help you to determine your condition and way how to handle it. You have time to look around and find out what resources are available for you and how those resources may help.
Let’s look now at how our joints work, the nutrition they need, and their characteristic nature. This information is basic, but crucial for a fuller understanding of arthritis. Then we will see why arthritic pain occurs; what medication does, and what it does not do; and finally what more you can do to control the pain.
JOINT CONSTRUCTION
You probably already know a little about what our joints consist of and how they work. In the knee, for instance, we have two major bones : one on the top and one on the bottom. Between those two bones we have a kind of shock absorber that we call cartilage. The joint is surrounded by bag, called synovial bag or joint capsule, which holds lubrication called synovial fluid. Cartilage plays major role in saving your joint bones from damage. Cartilage takes load off your body, but cartilage is also a living cell like every other cell in our body. It needs “food” – nutrition--and has waste just like any living organism. Blood supplies the nutrition and removes the waste from our joints. Fresh blood feeds the joint via arteries, and removes the waist through veins.
BLOOD CIRCULATION AND YOUR JOINTS
Every organ of our body receives nutrition from blood, but inside the synovial capsule there is no blood. How then do our joints get nutrition? And how does the lubrication fluid enter the joint? Blood flows from large arteries, to smaller ones, to tiny capillaries. At that point, the flow slows; the heart is not strong enough to push blood through the billions of capillary in our bodies. Yet the capillary system is critical to our organs receiving blood. On one side of the capillary, there is a “valve” which opens when the capillary expands and closes when the capillary contracts. When a capillary contracts, it pushes blood only one direction--in our case, to the joint. Normally capillaries expand and contract when we are in motion—for instance, when we walk or run. Consequently, if we are not getting enough physical activity, which is common in advancing age, our joints may be starved of blood.
HOW CARTILAGE WORKS
Cartilage is in composition similar to other cells in our body; structurally, however, it has a different design. Cartilage needs nutrition like any living organism. Cartilage has a rough life serving as a kind-of shock absorber. When you move your foot up, for instance, cartilage sucks up synovial fluid to gets nutrition; and when you step down on your foot, the cartilage is compressed and synovial fluid expels toxins, or waste matter. These toxins are a by-product of cartilage. The synovial membrane around joint capsule perform this function, moving the waste into the veins, to be removed from the body.
I explain this process in some detail because it is important to understand how significant circulation is for the proper function of joints. So, on the one hand blood is critical to the joint to produce synovial fluid, and on the other hand, blood is the matter whereby waste is expelled from the joint capsule. Cartilage cells live and die under a variety of circumstances. When we gain weight, for instance, we create a greater load on our cartilage, which may damage it.
INFLAMATION AS BODY DEFENSE SYSTEM
What happens to dead cartilage? First, it must be removed form inside our joints. If these particles are not removed, our body will assume they are foreign objects and attack them with antibodies. This is a normal defensive measure which creates inflammation.
Inflammation is a raised temperature around foreign matter inside your body, which is an effort to try to kill it Inflammation combined with pain is a signal from the body that something is wrong and needs to be fixed. In the case of dead cartilage, the situation does not improve because poor blood circulation does not remove the dead cartilage, and with time only gets worse: the body calls for more antibodies, creating more inflammation and pain.
CAUSE OF PAIN
What do we usually do if we have pain?
Most people take a pill to suppress pain for temporary relief. Usually it is blood thinner, like aspirin. The pain is temporarily gone, but as we know, it will often return. Of course, we are only masking the pain, and not removing the source of the pain. Let’s look more closely why we feel pain and what pain means for us.
Pain is normal reaction of the body when something is going wrong. When pain begins, a lot of antibodies arrive at the source to push nerve mechanoreceptors (nerves pain sensor). These receptors produce electrical signals in our brain via neurotransmitters (“nerves wire”), telling us in effect that this area of the body has a problem. The more receptors involve the more acute pain.
Because a lot of people do not even want to think about the cause of a pain, they take more and more medication to mask the pain. When pain becomes severe, people are generally motivated to seek a doctor’s help.
Arthritis does not occur overnight. It takes years to reach the point of severe pain. And what can a medical professional do? Normally, a doctor will investigate the reason for the pain, and usually prescribe more exercise and more powerful pain suppressants. He is right about the exercise, although in the case of advanced arthritis or age, sufficient exercise may not be possible to relieve the pain. .
Often, traditional medicine will attempt to mask the pain using steroid injections. Unfortunately, steroids do not help for long. Moreover, the cause of pain is still not being addressed. Even an injection of artificial synovial fluid will not help for long, because the dead cartilage is not being removed. .
Next? Surgery? But surgery is not always a complete solution, and involves risks that may create other problems, greater pain and misery. Moreover, after surgery when your activity increases, more blood flows to the synovial capsule and cartilage begins to grow again; but after some time, when your activity decreases, the cycle will repeat.
My personal opinion is that surgery should be a last resort and only for those who have extensive bones damage and there is no other way solution available. Often, athletes are prime candidates for surgery due to the wear and tear on their bones and cartilage.
If we have enough blood coming to our joints, we will normally not suffer such wear and tear. This is really the difference between the view of traditional medicine and my own perspective. And so we now understand how critical blood flow is to the joint. .
CONCLUSION :
If you will continue to take pain suppressing pills, the arthritis will not stop. It will get worse and worse until your bone will be damaged and surgery became necessary.
Perhaps better to listen to Mother Nature and does what your body ask: increase blood circulation, removing toxins from your joints, regenerate your cartilage and not to takes pills. The pills may not work at all and, if they do suppress a pain but not for the long time. You will need ever more medications because cause of pain will be not removed and the problem still exists.
How ArthriFon® does help you?
It is this important flow of blood that is behind the development of our arthritic device, ArthriFon®.
Nevertheless, ArthriFon® does more than increase blood circulation in the joint. It also suppresses pain by disconnecting any signals between the mechanoreceptors (nerves pain sensors) and the brain until cause of pain will remove. You will needs just several applications to see a difference.
At the same time, as ArthriFon® increases blood circulation to and from the joint, it helps to clean up cell membranes and remove dead cartilage particles out of the joint, and also increasing the production of stem cells which are needed to repair cartilage.
By increasing blood circulation, the synovial membrane produces more synovial fluid, which allows cartilage to re-grow. Of cause, all of this cannot be done overnight; depending upon the severity of your condition, several weeks or months may be required for a joint to be returned to a more healthy state. But even after a few sessions with ArthriFon®, you will feel the difference.
I hope in this I have helped you to better understand your condition, the cause of your pain and distress. I hope I have also provided some suggestions for relief.
Cordially,
Yury Podrazhansky, PhD, President ECR Corp.
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