5 Ways to Keep Joint Pain from Hindering Your Life

Your joints are the parts of your body where two bones meet. For example, your hip joint is where your thigh bone meets your pelvis. Joints provide your body with the support and flexibility needed to move around easily, but if any disease or injury causes damage to your joints, you can lose some of that mobility and experience a lot of pain.

Joint pain can have a wide variety of causes, so it’s incredibly common in people of all ages and walks of life. You can develop painful joints from chronic conditions such as arthritis, an acute injury like a sprain, or repetitive movements used in sports.

If you deal with joint pain, you know how much it can affect your everyday life and keep you from doing the things you love. But our chiropractic team at Anodyne Pain and Wellness Solutions in Newark, Delaware, has effective treatment methods for joint pain that can help restore your quality of life.

In this month’s blog, we explore some common causes of joint pain and discuss some management strategies that can be a part of your treatment plan.

Common causes of joint pain

Part of treating joint pain is understanding what’s causing it in the first place because different causes require different treatment approaches.

One of the top causes of joint pain is arthritis. There are over 100 forms of arthritis, but the two most common types are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Osteoarthritis happens when the cartilage that cushions your joints breaks down over time, causing your joints to rub together and trigger pain and swelling. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition that causes your immune system to attack the lining of your joints, leading to joint pain and inflammation.

Other common causes of acute or chronic joint pain include:

Inflammation in fluid sacs around your joints (bursitis)
Inflammation in tendons around your joints (tendonitis)
Joint overuse injury (jumper’s knee, tennis elbow)
Fibromyalgia

Viral infections can also lead to joint pain, but the pain should subside after the virus has run its course.

Effective treatments for joint pain

Injuries and arthritis are two top causes of joint pain, but they need different approaches to treat the pain. Arthritis is a chronic condition that doesn’t have a cure, so you need to find ways to manage it and lessen the symptoms. An injury, however, can be fully treated, especially with methods that can encourage better and faster healing.

As you manage your joint pain, it’s best to focus on treatment methods that can increase blood flow to your joints and reduce bodily inflammation, both of which can reduce joint pain.

We recommend these natural and minimally invasive treatments that can do just that:

Move your joints through exercises to keep them flexible and improve blood flow
Get chiropractic adjustments to realign joints and relieve stiffness
Try cold laser therapy to reduce joint swelling and inflammation
Get platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections to reduce inflammation and encourage healing
Undergo acupuncture to stimulate blood flow and release the body’s natural painkillers

If you’re ready to better manage your joint pain, schedule an appointment with our Anodyne Pain and Wellness Solutions to get started. Simply call our office or book online today.