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Arthritis means pain and this could be anywhere in the muscles or the bones which the disease affects; the joints especially bear the brunt and are very painful. Cartilage between the bones is what makes sure that there is no pain thanks to the bones coming into contact with each other in our joints. They are like the glands in our body and the cells they are made of are called Chondrocytes. Dead chondrocytes are replaced with new cartilage cells.

The swelling that is caused due to arthritis damages more cells of the cartilage and most of the time the body takes time to generate new cells. This is more so if the body is undernourished and lacks the required nutrients to repair or the joint has suffered an injury. Instability, joint weakness and deformities can be caused by this condition which will start affecting normal day today activities. The traditional treatment to arthritis demands change of one’s lifestyle besides physical therapy and medication. Joint replacement surgery is a last resort after health care providers have tried other less intrusive interventions to relieve the discomfort.

There are two main categories that arthritis can be grouped into, these categories are based on the ‘generalized’ or ‘localized’ areas of the joints or body that have been affected and then they branch off into sub-categories. Localized arthritis affects the cartilage surrounding the joints and bones and includes conditions like bursitis and tendonitis. It could just be that the localized conditions could manifest themselves in just one of two joints being affected. Generalized conditions involve a sub category where there is no swelling or inflammation but the muscle and soft tissue are affected. The condition is not associated with joint damage; Fibromyalgia is a common type of arthritis that is placed under this category.

The second sub category is one where there is inflammation and the whole body is affected. Under this category, rheumatoid arthritis would be an example of a condition you would see, along with psoriatic arthritis and gout. Still other generalized situations include polymyositis, involving muscles, systemic lupus erythematosus involving the skin, kidneys and or other organs and vasculitis where any organ is involved.

An individual is capable of having more than just one arthritis type and it includes over one hundred different medical conditions that are known to affect roughly forty six million adults and three hundred thousand children within the United States. These conditions, though most common in adults over 60, mostly as osteoarthritis, can begin early on and even in infancy. The number of people suffering out of this condition is increasing proportionally with the increasing average age of the American population; with old age setting in people suffering with arthritis is increasing day by day.

S. and costs over 124 billion dollars a year in medical care and indirect expenses. Osteoarthritis can be prevented by taking a few precautionary measures; these include, maintaining suitable or appropriate body weight, and consuming plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, which are good sources for the vitamins C and D. Regular exercise and consumption of up to 1000 to 1500 mg of calcium per day for adults would help them avoid injuries caused by sports activities.

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