RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PAINS About 50 million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis, 30 million people suffer from low back pain, millions suffer from arthritic neck pains, and 200,000 children are affected by the juvenile form of arthritis. Once any of these conditions establishes in an individual, it becomes a sentence for suffering during the rest of the individual's life— unless the simplicity of the root-cause of the problem is fully understood.
Initially, rheumatoid arthritic joints and their pain are to be viewed as indicators of water deficiency in the affected joint cartilage surfaces. Arthritis pain is another of the regional thirst signals of the body. In some arthritis pains, salt shortage may be a contributing factor. The cartilage surfaces of bones in a joint contain much water. The lubricating property of this "held water" is utilized in the cartilage allowing the two opposing surfaces to freely glide over one another during joint movement. Whereas the bone cells are immersed in calcium deposits, the cartilage cells are immersed in a matrix containing much water.
There are 360 joints in the human body. A joint is the point of attachment of two bones. Also, what are the 4 types of joints and examples? Planar, hinge, pivot, condyloid, saddle, and ball-and-socket are all types of synovial joints.
Diagrams of bones, see here
[ Finger joint. Water hold in the cartilage of a joint is the lubricant that protects the contact surfaces of the joint. Artery enters bone through air tight hole. Details here. Cartilage contact points, The joint capsule and the Areis, The bone marrow, Water reaches cartilage from the base through the bone marrow and tendons.]
Figure 6: A schematic model of a hinge joint (found in the finger) its arterial supply, to the bone marrow, to its capsule, and the direction of serum supplt to its cartilage contact points through the bone marrows. Joints are places where bones meet. The body contains several different types of joint. Some joints have limited movements, such as those between the vertebrae, whereas others are more mobile, including the joints in the fingers and toes.
Hinge joints are those that allow movement along one plane. They facilitate bending and straightening actions, such as flexing a finger.
In a hinge joint, protective cartilage covers the bones, and a thick gel called synovial fluid lubricates them, allowing them to move without rubbing against one another. All hinge joints also contain muscles, ligaments, and other tissues that stabilize the joint.
Hinge joints are more stable than ball-and-socket joints, which include the shoulder and hip joints. However, ball-and-socket joints allow a greater range of movement along more than one plane.
The following body parts are hinge joints:
• elbow
• knee
• finger joints (interphalangeal joints)
• toe joints (interphalangeal joints)
• ankles (tibiotalar joint)
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As the cartilage surfaces glide over one another, some exposed cells die and peel away. New cells take their place from the growing ends that are attached to the bone surfaces on the two sides. In a well-hydrated cartilage, the rate of friction damage is minimal. In a dehydrated cartilage, the rate of "abrasive" damage is increased. The ratio between the rate of regeneration of cartilage cells to their "abrasive peel" is the index of joint efficiency. Actively growing blood cells in the bone marrow take priority over the cartilage for the available water that goes through the bone structure. In the process of dilating the blood vessels to bring more circulation to the area, it is possible that the branch that goes through a tight hole in the bone cannot expand adequately enough to cope; the cells that depend on these vessels for an increased water and nutrient supply are under a physically imposed rationing control. Under such circumstances, and unless there is blood dilution to carry more water, the "serum" requirements of the cartilage will have to be satisfied from the blood vessels that feed the capsule of the joint. The nerve regulated shunting mechanisms (to all the joints) also produce signals of pain.
Initially, this pain is an indication that the joint is not fully prepared to endure pressure until it is fully hydrated. This type of pain has to be treated with a regular increase in water intake to produce some dilution of blood that is circulating to the area until the cartilage is fully hydrated and repaired from its base attachment to the bone—the normal bone route of serum diffusion to the cartilage. A look at Figures 6 and 7 will help make the points clear. It is my assumption that the swelling and pain in the capsule of the joint is an indication there is dilation and edema from the vessels that furnish circulation to the capsule of the joint. Joint surfaces have nerve endings that regulate all functions. When they place a demand for more blood circulation to the area to pick up water from the serum, the compensatory vascular expansion in the capsule is supposed to make up for the inefficiency of circulation from the bone route of supply.
[ A well-hydrated and dehydrated joint - comparison .
A dehydrated joint:
•Artery entering joint capsule,
•Inflamed joint capsule oozing serum and white cells into the joint,
• Damaged cartilage exposing bone,
A well hydrated joint:
• Hydration of cartilage,
• Normal joint capsule and cartilage covering bone,
Joint moverment causes vacuum to be created within the joint space. Water will be pulled through the bone and the cartilage into the joint cavity - if it is freely available.
Figure 7: A schematic model intended to show and compare side-by-side, a well hydrated joint to a dehydrated joint. The interior cartilage in a well hydrated joint gets its nutrition from the blood supply to its base attachment to the bone. A dehydrated joint will need to get some form of fluid circulation from the capsule of the joint, hence the swelling and tenderness in the joint capsule. The inflammatory areas may appear as if there is infection when there is only dehydation.]
Because dehydration in the joint surfaces will eventually cause severe damage—to the point of making the bone surfaces bare and exposed until osteoarthritis becomes established—the tissue damage will trigger a mechanism for remodeling of the joint There are hormone-secreting cells in the capsule of the joint. When there is damage (also from dehydration), injured tissue has to be repaired. These "local remodeling hormones" take over and restructure the joint surfaces. It seems that they cater to the lines of force and pressure that the joints have to endure. Unfortunately, the repair process seems to produce a deviation of the joints. To avoid such disfigurement, one should take the very initial pain seriously and begin a strict attention to daily intake of water. Initially, this pain should be recognized as a sign of local dehydration. If it does not disappear after a few days of water intake and repeated gentle bending of the joints to bring more circulation to the area, one should then consult a professional practitioner of medicine.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by recognizing the pain and the non-infectious inflammation of a rheumatoid joint as a thirst signal in your body. You are probably showing other signals for water shortage in your body, but this particular site is indicating predisposition to a more severe local damage.
If we understand the body to have difficulty in recognizing its thirst state, it is possible that this lower state of alertness is also inheritable by a child. It is possible that dehydration in a rapidly growing child might also indicate its presence by the pain felt in the joints as well as it can be felt in heartburn. The mode of signal production that would denote thirst might naturally be the same in the young, as well as in older people. It is therefore recommended that juvenile arthritis should also be treated with an increase in daily water intake.
As you can see, Dr. Laurence Malone, whose letter is published below, is an experienced medical doctor and an educator. His observations on the effect of water in rheumatoid joint pains in himself shows that our other colleagues in the medical profession should begin to notice the medicinal values of water in disease prevention.
Postscript
The book is already in its printers' hands. A few recently introduced commercial brands of water, with seemingly scientific explanations about the specific way they are "manufactured," have prompted me to use the only available space on this page to clarify the following points.
The corrective physiologic effects of ordinary "tap" water in some of the conditions explained in this book are being attributed to specially prepared brands of "structured water" that are presented for sale. As I already explained, water has many properties. It has special characteristics in the membranes and inside the cells of the body.
However, if we simulate those characteristics outside the body, it does not mean that water will pass into the cells of the body with the same characteristics. In fact, the cell membrane filters and separates water from its solid content and frees it from other dissolved materials to manufacture free and useful activator before its passage inside the cell. It has developed the system that the water molecules have to be in "single file" before they can go through the membrane. Water diffuses into the cell at the rate of 10 centimeter per second. The dissolved substances stay behind, and their entrance into the cell is regulated by material-specific, sophisticated transport systems. This is how the body survives. It creates its own "uniformity of presentation" with constantly changing environmental factors. Please do not be impressed by titles and jargons. Begin to think before you accept seemingly scientific statements that are designed to sell you a product.
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