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Both primary osteoarthritis,
the type that occurs spontaneously,
and secondary osteoarthritis, the type that
develops from an accident, have something in common.
The muscles above and below the joint are in a spasm
that makes a clamp like the one above. This puts
the joint in a state of constant compression and the
cartilage cannot "breathe" the synovial fluid it needs
to live. As a result, it deteriorates. Maybe
it just goes into "hibernation" waiting for the day it
will again get the synovial fluid it needs.
Synovial fluid is a syrup like liquid in each joint that
provides lubrication and nourishment to the cartilage.
Cartilage is the "bearing" that
separates the bones from each other and makes the joint
work smoothly. Cartilage is like a sponge. It
expels synovial fluid when compressed and sucks it back
in when the compression is released. This happens
naturally as the joints move, but especially in our
back, hips and knees. If the muscles are in spasm
then the vital synovial fluid cannot reach the cartilage
except for a small area that is fed by the bone marrow
at each joint. This area is too small to feed the
entire cartilage at the joint so we have the sponge
action to do this.
Now the reasons your muscles are
in spasm around the affected joint is because there is
nerve damage there. You can see this for yourself
by gently pressing on different areas around the
affected the joint. You will find some areas to be
very sensitive, maybe very painful. That is
where you have nerve damage that is causing the muscle
spasm and clamping your joint together.
When your nerves were damaged they
were not able to heal for one reason or another.
Damaged, unhealed nerves around a joint are the cause of
your arthritis.
The nerves and their ganglia form
an internal communication system in our bodies that is
very complicated. Relief in one area above or
below a joint, may bring to light unnoticed pain in
another area around the joint. This is because the
pain in the first area was more intense than the other
and cancelled out the lesser pain. Then after an
intraneural session the intense pain that was relieved
allows the lesser pain to be felt. This is why we
say one or two sessions to relieve your pain and get you
on the way to recovery. Some patients may require additional sessions.
Our intraneural therapy heals the
nerves, which allows the muscles around the to joint relax
so it can move normally again, instead of in a
compressed state, like the clamp above. This gives
your cartilage a chance to "breathe" again and begin to
regenerate itself.
Early treatment means little or no
permanent damage. If some of your joints are
already knarled you may want to elect a surgical
procedure to correct that damage. We have some
very fine orthopedic surgeons associated with our clinic
with years of experience. One surgeon has logged
over 700 successful total knee replacements to date.
We hope that this will not be necessary for you, but if
it is we can help repair the damage with whatever option
is needed.
The National Institute of Health (NIH)
just recently completed clinical trials of glucosamine
and found that it does reduce pain in arthritic
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days from feeling better with Synflex. We think
that adding Syn-flex to your regimen will help to roll
back the damage caused by the amoebas we talked about on
the RA page of this website or the damaged nerves
discussed here.
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