» Arthritis http://www.keepingitalive.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:41:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Massage therapy for curing Arthritis http://www.keepingitalive.com/massage-therapy-for-curing-arthritis/ http://www.keepingitalive.com/massage-therapy-for-curing-arthritis/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:21:57 +0000 cooldude http://www.keepingitalive.com/?p=446 The most common ailment bothering the majority of the population is Arthritis. It’s a disease of joints causing inflammation and stiffening of bones and muscles resulting in reddening of skin, deformation of the body parts and hovering pain. Arthritis is caused by a variety of ways. It can be for your extra weight, for doing some stressful work, for inheriting it from someone in your family, for some injury or simply due to age. When it strikes, it can really make you cede to it. However, just a little bit of body massage can provide you some succor! Doesn’t this sound really relaxing? Just imagine, doing it actually will give you how much of relief.

Massages have also proven to be good for stress and other body pain. For Arthritis it acts as a therapy. Following are the benefits obtained by an Arthritis afflicted patient from massage:

  • Relax the bones and muscles
  • Reduce inflammation
  • Reduce reddening of skin
  • Reduce pain
  • Reduce deformation

In order to get this very tempting treatment you can either go to some professional masseur or simply buy the electric massagers available in the market nowadays.

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Life goes for a ride when the pain occurs. It is known to even remain for two to three weeks. And the biggest problem is that it is often chronic. High presence of uric acid in the food causes this.

One should try and not be fat if one is suffering from this. Otherwise it is trouble.

The foods to avoid are any animal or bird’s meet and alcohol.
One should have food that is cooked in olive oil. The citrus fruits are great lessening agents of arthritis. They are oranges, lemons. In fact, all Vitamin C foods are good.

Grapes, berries, blueberry are also quite effective. For the non-vegetarians, the salmon and tuna fish act as problem solvers.

One should have very spicy food, but ginger and turmeric are ready exceptions. They reduce arthritis greatly.

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