Brought to you by one hundred point: nine canoe, fm community radio from the halliburton highlands visit, canoe, fm dot com for more welcome than medical matters. I am here again with doktor norm, bottom back, a bottom welcome again and we are going to talk about us, steel arthritis. Yes, i was surprised we haven't talked about advances such a prevalent part of family practice, especially in the highlands, will have a large number of seniors in european industry, very common condition and senior size surprising that we had talked specifically about that and it's very calm and if you're over fifty probably have a bit of arthritis somewhere. That's our three general termer thrace just means inflamed joints and there are many different causes of our arthritis. Rheumatoid disease lupus, there's gout another form, but austria arthritis is private. Most it is the most common type of arthritis in canada. So what does it mean if those are our joints arm are basely coverings of the bomb, so one bone articulate with a bone beside it circulate such as your near thigh bone in your lower leg, bone articulate and you have this layer of of cartilage, which is actually a living cellular structure, there's actually living cells in there that are keeping a layer of cartilage protein. On top of that, which is like tat one and it also secrete a little ointment, which is like greece, so you have tough lon taft la mazzolata, greece and in between those joints, move beautifully until something goes wrong right. Everyone has anymore i'll, join you look at a chicken bone or joint you'll, see that through a grayish yellow white sir, covering sometimes in that sir beautiful articular cartilage, but as we get orders result with number things, sometimes that teflon finnish, just like my frying pan, it's a little bit pitted so it gets petted it gets thinner, is less cells, less cells to produce joint fluid, which lubricate the joint? So then, you get sort of grinding on grinding sort, scraping wooden agreeing that occurs with ease the nerve structures, a little closer. The services, mr getting pain in your joint, as that cartilage layer gets that's thinner. So now they are not that problem sure when he knew to correct the authority's annual sure. Well, you know why does it occur and it used to be always thought that has just result of getting older. So, but you know some older people have beautiful joints in some younger people have terrible joins us, not just an aging process, although we do know that, where in tears a factor by tear previous trauma, so few played contact sports rugby football soccer hockey, it was probably with some damage to your joints downhill skin. You know the list goes on, for our active use may have set the tone as far as this damage occurring car accidents so trying to avoid trauma. Not that i say you avoid sports, but you are trying to minimize it look after injuries when you were younger, traded discouraged that our thrace from developing early now now, what's the major thing that causes that i mean is running a lot of our moving aunt joanna yeah, we don't actually see that are now being overweight, does put more stress on your hips in your knees, but they looked at long distance runners and their arthritis risk is no greater or less than someone who wasn't a runner, but nothing protective about a running but nothingness so damaging mount running either. So, if you have some of these other factors against such as injury or damage being being overweight, smoking mocking comes up. Almost every conversation we have a smoking is bad. If people haven't got that smoking is bad bad diet, so not eating healthy. I'm the cells of your body need to be nourished nephew, not putting good nutrients into your body than those cells are gonna, be didn't wash the so one of those food items that would show we say shorter, keep an under control so that it does not deteriorate to the point were sure why i think it's part of its eliminating it out too much sugar and alcohol and junk food from our diet, inflammatory fats, artificial fats and manufactured factors. Her high risk for inflammation too much dairy can be at high risk for inflammation, so few people that are sensitive that way by making shrugging lots of vegetables in your diet. We know that's important, healthy protein, so a whole food diet is really important so that you're eating serve fission chicken and meet cen and vegetables in some fruits, not too much route. But if so, she avoiding thanks. So sugar and junk food are terrible. Our number one on the low number one i will eliminate may but teething physically active. So you mentioned the runner sort of running into problems. Now they don't, but we do know that if you do have our thrace keeping active is really important. Keepin. The muscles around your joints is probably one of those important things you can do other than cleaning up your smoking in sugar have ice by keeping active is really important now find a happy. Medium is ok worth if keeping activists good, i'm gonna, start running. Marathons will know that diverting gunnar arthritic join you just gonna constantly other asian or banging, but there may be non weight. Bearing exercises are exercises that it will be better for your knee. So often all recommend things like cycling and swimming we're, not putting a pounding soda through your joints to try to sort of exercise them working with physiotherapy or personal trainer. There's a lot of programs coming out now the design for people that have arthritis to maintain the strength and vitality of their joint. So a good, strong joint is really important to memorize your symptoms and try to reduce the progression of your arthritis, because you ve picked up a the mild stage. You can live with mild arthritis, the rest of your life that often there not picked up that early. So it's a prescription for that other than let's say eliminating some of those censure or anything else you can. You can eat that? What sort of a few i i know they're workin on our behalf: how can we re grow cartilage? Now? That's really that, let's see lots of things going into the future is how can we stimulate that those cells to grow around your joint in their working on it? You know, there's something i consider inject into joint to help stimulate that and they ve experimented with stem cells and injecting stem cells into the joint or plasma terf. Thir purified pause minds. The joint too statist stimulate some of those healing components. They reduce pain, but they don't actually stimulate new college girl so bright. So something in your diet, glucose, i mean people have done that for years, may reduce inflammation and pain, but will not stimulate new grew bright the bone so we're not there yet, but i think we're on the cusp, and that would be a huge winner inanity and for seniors and for maintaining mobility, which is the number one thing that he will run into. A seniors is lost. Mobility is present on one thing that results in people needing assisted living in long term care yeah getting around sonia so deem where their arthritis. This is important. Any other things you can add to do. Yeah, yeah. Well again, if you're, having persist in joint discomfort, talk to your doktor bodies in the early stage. Not all our three has to be treated by developing a management plan or strategy, and there's lots of things are going to do. Research reduce symptoms from our topical therapies have two bracing to town all to add value to maybe surgery or something but the end result. Prevention could be joint replacement, but let's see if we can prevent that damage, our latest joint right doesn't bring that back. Now. It doesn't know that put a new joint in a whole new level of tough one at all, a medal on plastic. Basically aa. Ok, so lets that's how they do that they are exactly so. If i wanted a new thing, because i knew near whatever new joint, then they do have a lower can ensure that there are arrests without and misery have associate with added. Let's say: that's a pick up your arthritis early work out a management plan to try to prevent you from meeting surgery down the road write anything else. I guess pretty well covered it and i think it gives people an idea. You again persistent drunk discomfort, look into it. Ok, they very much doktor bottom, another very informative bit of information. You're welcome. Thank you. Have a great deal to answer for this addition of medical matters. 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