Heat & Cold Treatments for Arthritis Pain Relief

Series Summary

Arthritis is one of the most common causes of pain around the world among people over the age of 65. Arthritis is described as the pain and inflammation in the joints of the body. A leading cause of disability, arthritis appears in humans and other animals later in age. There are many different types of arthritis including Osteoarthritis, Gouty arthritis, Septic arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. Some forms attack the body as an autoimmune disease. Other types of arthritis are described as joint infection, degenerative bones and joints, or a deposit of uric acid crystals.

In this series of expert video clips, you will learn how to strengthen your body and fight the onset of arthritis. Watch as our expert demonstrates the basics of arthritis exercises. Arthritis is common in the joints of the hip, knees, hands, and arms. Learn hip and knee exercises that increase your mobility and lessen the pain of arthritis. By keeping your muscles toned and healthy, you can decrease your chances of injury. See our expert give tips on stretches for the back, hips, and knees what will keep you limber and in shape. After watching these expert video clips, you can learn more about arthritis and how to treat it with physical therapy.

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Monica and today I am going to be talking about arthritis and some of the things you can do to help with your arthritis. It is good to know if you do have arthritis, you probably should consult your doctor unless it is just minor arthritis. If it is, then it is easy enough to just take some Ibuprofen and Advil that type of thing to help with the irregular aches and pains that you might have. Heat can also feel really good to help kind of warm the joint, loosen up the joint especially right in the morning when you first wake up, you feel like you are really stiff when you get out of bed. Sometimes you know taking a nice hot shower, put a little heat on your joint will help things out. If you are really, really inflamed, you have a lot of pain and irritation then ice could be another thing that you can do for that joint. In these next segments here, I am actually going to be talking more about knee and hip arthritis just because those are the most common spots to get arthritis because they are weight-bearing bones that have to endure a lot of the brunt. But again you can get arthritis anywhere in your ankles, your fingers, your wrists, but we will be talking about knee and hip."