Treatment of osteoarthritis:
- relieving pain with osteoarthritis
- activation and strengthening of the body’s recovery and resistance capacity
- building your physical resilience and vitality
- increase your energy level
- repair and renewal of damaged tissue due to osteoarthritis
You can then:
- move normally and smoothly
- pay attention to your life, instead of pain and limitations
- pick up your work and everything you like
- experience improvements in your relationships and social activities
- feeling free and independent
Osteoarthritis is not wear and tear. You may have wear and tear, but that is not osteoarthritis. It is not an aging process, not rheumatoid arthritis and not osteoporosis. Osteoarthritis is a rheumatic disease. This means that treatment for osteoarthritis is possible.
With osteoarthritis, the quality of cartilage in the joints can deteriorate. This process in the body allows the cartilage to become thinner and softer.
It can occur in any joint. The joints in which osteoarthritis most commonly occurs are the knees, hips, neck, lower back, neck, fingers and big toe. People with osteoarthritis may experience pain and stiffness in these joints.
Osteoarthritis is relatively common; approximately one million people in the Netherlands have symptoms and complaints due to osteoarthritis. In conventional medicine, osteoarthritis is called a chronic condition because there is no effective osteoarthritis treatment available. If people do not treat osteoarthritis effectively in time, the symptoms can worsen. This causes fatigue, limitations and pain in more and more joints.
The breakdown of cartilage has often taken place for years before (pain) complaints arose. Colloquially, osteoarthritis is often mentioned in the same breath as aging and wear and tear, as if people who have osteoarthritis are old and worn out. That’s not correct. A word like wear and tear also gives the impression that nothing can be done about it. That is not the case either.
With the treatment of osteoarthritis at Free from Pain, the degenerative process in the body can be blocked, and in many cases damaged cartilage can be repaired.
Osteoarthritis is a rheumatic disease
You may be told by your GP that osteoarthritis is not rheumatism. This is because it was long thought that osteoarthritis was simply ‘wear and tear’. This can cause great confusion in the conversation with your doctor. And you may start to doubt the diagnosis. However, osteoarthritis is one of the three main forms of rheumatism. The other forms are inflammatory rheumatism and soft tissue rheumatism (fibromyalgia).
Osteoporosis and osteoarthritis both occur in the elderly, but are not the same. In osteoarthritis, the density of the bone beneath the cartilage often increases in response to cartilage loss. With osteoporosis, the bone actually becomes more brittle.
Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis are different diseases. Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease in which there is inflammation in the joint capsule. Osteoarthritis is a condition in which cartilage is broken down. The quality of the cartilage gradually deteriorates.
Osteoarthritis can occur at any age. The chance of this increases as a person gets older. But osteoarthritis also occurs in young people, especially in the joints of the neck and lower back.