Arthritis Treatment: Gout and Hyperuricaemia.
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Hyperuricaemia is a higher than normal blood level of uric acid. There are individuals with high blood uric acid levels and have never had an attack of gout. Are these people at risk of arthritis of the joints and kidney stones from urate crystals deposits? Yes they are.
Firstly the diagnosis of asymptomatic hyperuricaemia [...]
Arthritis Treatment:Chronic Gout.
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In the days before adequate treatment controlled the blood level of uric acid, chronic gout presented with multiple joint involvement and chronic poly-arthritis. Today this is rare and only found in patients who refuse medication, have poor compliance or unable to take suitable medication.
Here the acute gout attack will become more frequent. Then [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Gout and Podagra.
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The first explanation of podagra was in the sixteenth century by Burgamer, a German Physician. He said podagra is a pain in the feet with or without swelling which comes from dampness or drought.
Podagra is acute gout affecting the big toe and typically the first [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Types of Gout.
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Gout develops when the level of uric acid in the blood stream is higher than normal. When this happens urate crystal are deposited in and around the joints.
There are two types of gout, primary and secondary. The body eliminates uric acid from the blood naturally and most of this (66%) is done by [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Gout.
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Gout is a form of inflammatory arthritis. In gout, crystals of uric acid is deposited in and around the joints. For this deposit of urate to occur, the circulating level of uric acid in the blood must be higher than normal.
Gout has been recorded through the centuries. Hippocrates wrote about it and urate [...]
Arthritis Treatment: History of Magnets & Health.
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Magnets were discovered in China and Greece. In China it was used in fortune telling and as a guide to building. By 1200 AD they were used in ships as compasses. Ever since, sailors and navigators have used compasses and the earth’s magnetic field to guide them in their journeys, whether on land [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Do magnets work in Arthritis?
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There are many arthritic patients and sufferers in pain that use magnets. Some are very certain that the magnets they are using are a great help.
There are no large controlled clinical trials to evaluate the benefits of magnets on arthritis.
Doctors in general do not think they work to relieve pain in [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Reduce Your Pain Naturally.
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If you have arthritis and you are looking to control pain without drugs, then the first thing you need to do is to reduce your weight or maintain a normal weight. If you are overweight, weight loss will be the most important thing you can do to improve the level of pain, [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Rituximab in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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At the American College of Rheumatology Congress, reassuring information was released on repeat treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by MabThera or Rituxan (rituxmab). Further improvement of quality of life was achieved by a second course of rituximab.
Professor Keystone, University of Toronto, Canada said, “With further analyses, we are able to evaluate just what MabThera [...]
Arthritis Treatment: Cervical Spondylosis.
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Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative condition of the cervical spine.
Thirty five percent of us have had neck pain at some time or other but in most of us the pain was transient and disappeared in time. In some cases, however, this is not the case.
Movement of the neck is a complicated process involving [...]
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