| Usually, most doctors have certain types of | | | | If you are given a treatment for your knee pain, |
| treatments that they use for arthritis. | | | | it will more than likely include a prescription for |
| Unfortunately, most of these treatments only | | | | one of the anti-inflammatory drugs known as |
| treat the symptoms and not the actual cause of | | | | NSAIDs. These drugs are highly advertised and |
| your problem. So, while your pain level may | | | | are very profitable for the drug companies. While |
| decrease with the help of powerful | | | | they may help with the pain, they don’t help |
| anti-inflammatory drugs, your condition is actually | | | | your condition. Your condition is actually |
| getting worse. | | | | deteriorating and the continued use of NSAID |
| Well then, if that’s true and that’s the | | | | drugs can speed up the process. |
| treatment offered, why wouldn’t your doctor | | | | NSAIDs only treat the symptoms and the use of |
| come up with a type of treatment that | | | | these drugs can have terrible side effects. Some |
| doesn’t cause more problems? | | | | common ones include constipation, diarrhea, |
| The answer is that your doctor isn’t normally | | | | nausea, vomiting, drowsiness and headaches. |
| trained that way. Modern medical training includes | | | | Those are the milder side effects. |
| little in the way of natural treatments that might | | | | The more serious, are increased risk of a fatal |
| offer a better solution for many patients. | | | | heart attack or stroke, kidney and liver failure, |
| Why is that? One of the main reasons, is that | | | | increase in blood pressure, internal bleeding, |
| major pharmaceutical companies provide most of | | | | shortness of breath and perforation of the |
| the funding for medical research and treatments. | | | | stomach or intestines. Doesn’t seem to be an |
| For instance, these companies cannot patent a | | | | ideal situation does it? |
| natural substance, so there is little profit motive | | | | The biggest winners in all this are the |
| for them to promote natural treatments. | | | | pharmaceutical companies, and the biggest losers, |
| They spend millions of dollars to get a medication | | | | in many cases, can be the patients. It’s |
| approved to sell, so they have to have a sizable | | | | unfortunate that this is how it is, and hopefully, it |
| return on their investment. There is very little | | | | will change in the future. |
| profit for them by selling natural products. | | | | Until it does, consider arthritis pain alternatives, |
| And, since there are obvious connections between | | | | that can actually improve your condition while |
| the pharmaceutical companies and the health care | | | | decreasing the pain. There are cartilage building |
| industry, there are many barriers to the patient | | | | supplements available that can do exactly that. |
| being offered natural arthritis pain treatments, | | | | Is there really any good reason to wait any |
| which can be less harmful and in many cases, | | | | longer? |
| more effective than the traditional ones. | | | | |