How to Achieve Effective
Pain Relief for Arthritis


Arthritis Pain Relief

Causes for Arthritis

Arthritis pain results when nerve fibers are damaged. Damaged fibers aren't able to send messages from your skin to your brain as they normally do. Instead the messages become confused and exaggerated, causing chronic, often excruciating pain that may persist for months — or even years — in the area where arthritis first occurs.

Arthritis is difficult to treat even by even the best of physicians and specialists. Specific treatment of arthritis problems will be determined by a physician, preferably a specialist – preferably one who deals with osteoarthritis and/or rheumatoid arthritis. Most have seen everything under the sun when it comes to arthritis. How he/she deals with your arthritic condition will depend on...

• Your age, overall health, and medical history

• Extent of your arthritic condition in various areas of your body

• Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies for arthritis

• Expectations for the course of your arthritis condition

• Your opinion or preference for arthritis treatment

Arthritis Symptoms

The symptoms may include:

• Sharp and jabbing, burning, or deep and aching pain

• Swelling of the joints • Extreme sensitivity to touch and temperature change

• Itching and numbness

• In rare cases, you might also experience muscle weakness, tremor or paralysis — if the nerves involved also control muscle movement.

When to Seek Medical Advice for Arthritis

If you have any type of persistent joint pain, you may be developing arthritis, see your doctor right away. Finding an effective treatment to relieve the pain from arthritis can sometimes be frustrating. You may have to work with your doctor and sometimes other specialists to try a variety of treatments before you find something that helps your particular condition.

Arthritis Treatment

Treatment for arthritis can depend on the type of pain you experience. Possible options include:

Lidocaine skin patches. These are small, Band-Aid-like patches that contain the topical, pain-relieving medication lidocaine. The patches, which must be prescribed by a doctor, are designed to be applied directly to painful skin and deliver relief for 4 to 12 hours. Don't use patches containing lidocaine on your face or any rash you may have.

Transcutaneous electronic nerve stimulation (TENS). This treatment involves the placement of electrodes over the painful area. The electrodes are then attached to a small, portable stimulator that you wear. The stimulator delivers tiny painless electrical impulses that pass through the electrodes to nearby nerve pathways. You turn the TENS unit on and off as needed to control arthritic pain. Exactly how the impulses relieve pain is uncertain. One theory is that the impulses stimulate production of endorphins, your body's natural painkillers. In some cases, treatment of arthritis can bring complete pain relief for an extended peroid of time, but most people still experience some pain, and a few don't receive any arthritis relief. Although some individuals must live with arthritis the rest of their life, most people can expect to control the painful conditions by following a regimen of diet, exercise, topical, oral, or injection medication.


Self-Care for Arthritis

After talking with your doctor, use of the following over-the-counter medications may ease the pain from arthritis:

PAIN RELIEF..Field application trials with people who suffer from arthritis has proven that our products are highly effective pain relief for arthritis. PAIN RELIEF is applied topically to your area of arthritis pain discomfort and gets right to the source of the arthritis pain by not attacking the inflammation of the nerves in the affected area but rather causing the nerves to relax and in essence "turn off the pain signal to your spinal chord, the pain connector to your brain". Our PAIN RELIEF products will not cause a burning sensation to irritate your skin. ZERO side effects exist with our PAIN RELIEF products no matter how many pain relief applications for arthritis are applied over any time frame. How long an application will deliver pain relief from arthritis depends on the physiology of you as an individual and the location of the arthritic pain but in general up to eight hours relief can be expected.

Apply your topical solution to your spot of arthritis pain about the size of the cup palm of your hand, LET IT DRY and then apply a heat compress or pad over the treatment area...a heat compress isn't necessary but it helps you to gain the full pain relief benefit of your particular pain relief product from arthritis.

Capsaicin – This cream, made from the seeds of hot chili peppers, may relieve skin hypersensitivity. It's the only medication approved by the FDA for treatment of arthritis. Capsaicin (Capzasin-P, Zostrix) depletes your nerve cells of a chemical called substance P, which is involved in sending pain messages to your brain. You periodically rub the cream on the involved area of your skin, usually three times a day. Capsaicin can cause a burning sensation and irritate your skin, but these side effects usually disappear over time. Follow the application instructions carefully because Capsaicin cream can be very irritating if rubbed on nonaffected parts of your body, such as your eyes.

Topical Analgesics and Anesthetics – Aspirin mixed into an absorbing cream or nonprescription-strength lidocaine cream may reduce skin hypersensitivity. Don't apply cream containing lidocaine to your face. Your doctor also may recommend using a cream containing other medications for arthritis.

Remember that Topical Solutions herpes creams are applied topically to your area of arthritis discomfort to get right to the source of your pain by not attacking the inflammation of the the nerve but rather causing the nerve to relax and in essence "turn off the pain signal to your spinal chord, the pain connector to your brain". Topical Solutions are not a cure, however, our pain treatment products will relieve the pain from arthritis.





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