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I have a really terrible neck pain along with my shoulders that have been hurting me for a long time. And also my joints, not to mention the hips and my right thigh. I’m in huge pain! What’s the best medicine to use? Hopefully not a temporary relief ’cause applying ice does that a small. Thanks.

I found relief from my arthritis pain, naturally, and you can do it too. I got rid of my arthritis and arthritis pain years ago, once and for all by doing one single thing.
Sometimes arthritis occurs in the wrist, elbows, shoulders, and jaw but you generally don’t find it there. Arthritic joints appear to be larger, are stiff and painful, and usually feel worse the more they are used as the day progresses. The first step when looking for solutions to an arthritis pain problem is to know how arthritis works.
Cartilage is one of the few tissues that does not have its own blood supply. Collagen is the essential protein in cartilage; it forms a mesh to give support and flexibility to the joint. The ability to make repairs to cartilage becomes limited as cartilage cells age.
An inflammatory response causes cytokines, to gather in injured areas and cause inflammation and hurt to body tissue and cells; it’s known to play a role in rheumatoid arthritis and other muscle and joint problems associated with autoimmune diseases. Injuries sometimes can be the start in the arthritic disease process; osteoarthritis can develop years later even after a single traumatic injury to a joint or near a joint.
Genetic factors are thought to be involved in about 50% of osteoarthritis cases in the hands and hips and a somewhat lower percentage of cases in the knee.
Make smoothies with fruit only using a base of two bananas, adding a cup of frozen or fresh blueberries and mango chunks or substitute any other fruit and add an energy boost of two tablespoons of coconut oil; add one or two leaves of kale for another highly nutritional boost — no one will ever know. Some people swear by morning drinks of raw apple cider vinegar and honey for arthritis pain relief. If you really want to get rid of your arthritis pain forever it may take a radical change in your diet and an ongoing commitment.
If you’re not already doing so, make a huge effort to watch your diet. One natural treatment method involves avoiding all inflammatory foods. Nutrition experts say it takes a combination of supplements, that no one supplement can relieve arthritis pain, build cartilage, etc.
Gluten may be a culprit in arthritic diseases including fibromyalgia; avoid wheat, barley, rye, spelt, triticale, kamut and oats (although not a gluten grain it gets contaminated at the wheat mills). Try massaging your fingers or other affected joints with coconut oil twice a day.
Some people swear by glucosamine and/or chondroitin and others say it didn’t help at all. A study in Fantastic Britain touted the beneficial effects of cod liver oil on osteoarthritis; relieving pain and stiffness, and reversing the destruction of joint cartilage within 24 hours.
Exercise is excellent for joints affected by osteoarthritis. If you have pain and swelling in your fingers, try squeezing Thera-putty made for this purpose or exercising with two Chinese Taiji chime balls. For arthritic fingers, a excellent exercise is to place your finger tips together and press hard and release, then repeat several times. At bedtime you can try putting on a pair of stretch gloves to help reduce the pain and swelling in your fingers for those of you with arthritic hands.
Stretching and warming up the joints should always be the first step in your exercise routine to make your joints more flexible. Even if you don’t reckon you can exercise, you can do some movements. A excellent exercise routine is the key to beating arthritis and arthritis pain.
Once you become more informed about arthritis you’ll be able to plot an arthritis treatment program, natural or conventional or a combination of both. Let your doctor and pharmacist know about any other drugs, herbs or other supplements you’re taking, to ward off any adverse drug reactions that might occur from the combining of different drugs or supplements.
At the very least, know what the side effects and adverse reactions are for any drug you take.
Arthritis pain relief is the ultimate goal – understanding arthritis is a start on the right direction. Once you know the facts about arthritis, possible causes and treatment approaches you can take, you’ll be on your way to recovery and pain will disappear. Changing your diet to predominately fruits and raw veggies, like I did, can turn your arthritis pain around nearly overnight. As time goes by you can add a few foods back but be careful about eating anything cooked, canned or processed.

You would reckon that after decades of using tylenol, ibuprofen, and codeine, we would have a grasp on which one of these is best to reduce pain due to musculoskeletal injuries, things like bruises, and even breaks when it comes to children. Not the case at all!
There simply has not been a lot of research into this, which is why this study published in the Pediatric Journal sheds a lot of light on the children’s pain issue.
But which one is best? Tylenol? Ibuprofen? What about codeine? As a parent, confusing to say the least.
Dr. Ting An Lee, a pediatrician at the Childrens Hospital at Montefiore, says, “You face a choice on which one do I choose. There have not been a lot of studies to necessarily compare, so this is the study is unique in that way. “
The research outlined in the Pediatrics Journal, compares acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Motrin) and also Codeine as to their indivdual effectiveness on reducing children’s pain.
Codeine, which is a narcotic, is associated with more side effects than ibuprofen, so it appears there is small reason to use it without a doctor’s specific prescription and supervision.
The study looked at how well each of these medications worked for musculoskeletal injuries to the neck, back, arms or legs in kids who came to the emergency room.
The findings clearly shows a pain relief advantage to ibuprofen, which acts both centrally in the brain pain centers and at the site of injury. We are talking about one dose, ONE DOSE proved to be very effective in reducing children’s pain!
We should make a strong point that if your child takes a pain medicatin and do not get pain relief, certainly within 24 hours, or worsening symptoms, like more swelling or more pain, you should take your child to your doctor.
When it comes to children’s pain, it looks like a ibuprofen is the medicine of choice. But just to be safe, there are non-oral solutions that relieve pain as well.
Corpron for one was developed by an orthopedic surgeon interested in providing his patients with an simple to use pain relieving product available over-the-counter to help alleviate inflammation, pain, and stiffness.
During pre-clinical assessments of Corprofen, many patients who used Corprofen as a topical cream for pain relief required lower doses of oral medications.
Another topical product is Menastil. Menastil is the result of 4 years of testing and product development with its origins in nerve cell research. Taking note of historical uses for essential oils, it was shown that Calendula oil, Menastil’s active ingredient, was highly effective as a topical analgesic for pain relief.
As a parent you now know the best remedies and products on the market to reduce pain due to things like bruises, and even breaks when it comes to your child.

Pain Management with Thomas T Nguyen MD DBPM

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