06/30/2025
You have Arthritis for a reason - and it's not your age.
Why? 🤔
Let’s look at what arthritis actually is,
When you break it down it is really your body response to excessive stress.
This means that if a certain area of your spine is under more stress than the others, your body strengthens that area by adding more bone.
That extra bone formation is arthritis.
That sounds like a good thing?
But like everything there is a give and take ⚖️. This extra bone may strengthen the area, and protect against the excessive stress.
But it also takes up space and limits mobility. That is why it hurts. 😣
The key point here is that it isn’t just random, like most people make it seem. It’s not just something you “get”
That’s why when you get it in the spine, it only happens in some of the joints (the ones under the most stress) and not the others.
Now that we know why it’s there we can actually figure out what to do about it. 🧠
Trying to treat the arthritis directly is not helpful, because that one formation is not going anywhere.
What you really want to do is take the stress off of that area so that:
More arthritis does not form or at least does not form as quickly
The area hurts less because less is being asked of it.
This strategy is an actual plan of how to address this problem, compared to the handwaving or blaming arthritis on your age that you usually encounter.
So what do you do?
Make sure you focus on mobility of the rest of your spine/ body 🧘♂️,
as a chiropractor when I have someone come in with arthritis, our main goal is to get the rest of the body moving as well as we can, not to just focus on that area that hurts.
Staying active 💪. Rest might feel good for the moment but it will worsen the problem long term.
Be careful with pain killers, taking a bunch of pain killers 💊 so that you can go do something that was too painful to do without them is a surefire way to progress your problem as quickly as possible.
So if you have been struggling with arthritis, there is something we can do about it, you are not doomed to a life of pain just because it’s there. 🌟