ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM TREATMENTS
The pain can sometimes be helped by the wise use of antidepressant medication, which causes an increase in the body’s natural production of pain-killers — the endorphins.
The most common form of treatment is a combination of physical therapies and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Dolobrid, Indocid, Brufen, Naprosyn, Voltaren, Orudis, Clinoril and Feldene. Aspirin and Paracetamol are also useful as pain killers and as drugs controlling inflammation. Specially coated or slow-release forms of aspirin have been developed to reduce the gastric problems associated with long term aspirin usage. These include Ecotrin, a specially coated tablet which releases its aspirin into the small intestine and not the more sensitive and fragile stomach lining.
Other drugs used in the treatment of arthritis include the cor-tico-steroid or steroid drugs such as Prednisolone and Depo-Medrol. These can be taken by mouth or injected directly into the joints.
Physiotherapy has a major place in the treatment of pain associated with arthritic conditions. Gentle mobilisation of affected joints together with the application of heat and cold to the joints will help keep those with advanced arthritis mobile.
Water-based exercise in the form of hydrotherapy and the more vigorous aqua-aerobics takes the strain of gravity from the painful and stiffened joints.
In the later stages, when joints are burnt out, surgical procedures are carried out to help those with artificial joints or to fuse joints which are too painful to move.
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