Experience the power of flexibility
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:23:00 09/13/2008
Filed Under: Health, Lifestyle & Leisure
MANILA, Philippines—Ever wonder why we can crack our knuckles? Ever wonder why we feel a stress-related pain in our back? Ever wonder if there is a cure for arthritis?
Our knuckles produce that cracking noise basically due to that thick, stringy lubricant called synovial fluid that is found between the joints. As the bones are stretched or pulled away, pressure is reduced on the synovial fluid, causing its dissolved gases to fill the empty space, like forming a bubble, and burst abruptly, which produces that cracking sound. However, not all joints can produce that cracking noise—it all depends on the distance between the bones.
Such is the case on our spinal column—our vertebrae. Prolonged rest on a slouch position results to stressing our backbones, so we feel like cracking the joints, in order to release some pressure that has been applied.
We feel the same with our knees and our lower backbones when we are seated for long hours and then we do a little stretching exercise to hear the joints crack that supposedly relieving sound. Well, there’s nothing really wrong with this and still there are no scientific evidence that the cracking could lead to arthritis.
The painful reality
According to health statistics, at least 13 million Filipinos aged 35 and above are suffering from arthritis, 5 million of which are under osteoarthritis. This news could only get worse because, as of this writing, still no therapeutic cure for arthritis is found.
Briefly, arthritis is a degenerative joint disease that causes pain, inflammation (swelling) and limited joint movement (rigid or stiff). It has three common types: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid and gout.
Arthritis is usually related to age and the food we eat. It may also be related to trauma due to accidents, physical stress due to work and overexertion brought about by sports.
For decades, most of us simply try to cover the symptoms through relieving ourselves of the pain by taking in nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin and naproxen. However, these NSAIDs products have now included in their label a warning that prolonged usage may cause heart attacks, stroke and gastrointestinal bleeding.
There are other medications that doctors recommend, and if you feel joints pain repeated over time, it is best to consult your doctor.
Natural element
Research on healing joints pain has started four decades ago when physicians in Europe introduced the use of glucosamine sulfate as an injectable therapeutic agent in the treatment of osteoarthritis.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of people have used this natural element that our very own body actually produces (but only in small amounts). Clinical studies have shown that pain is relieved over time and that the progression of arthritis is slowed down with almost no side effects.
Further research conducted in the laboratory of Richard Stenlake, a compounding chemist in Australia, showed that when glucosamine is combined with chrondroitin sulfate, the resulting supplement helps reduce chronic pain, protects the joints from further damage and even stimulates growth of cartilage.
Fighting arthritis
We have an alternative way to combat arthritis—Power Joints.
Glucosamine is combined with chrondroitin sulfate in every capsule of Power Joints. Based on researches done in Australia, the United States and even in Europe, two capsules a day of Power Joints help restore the viscosity of the synovial fluid, which in turn acts as a lubricant to prevent the bones from scratching each other.
It also promotes growth of the cartilage that protects the bones from harmful toxins. When used regularly, Power Joints relieves chronic pain over time. Hence, if you have started to take Power Joints in your 20s or 30s, and continue taking it, you are assured of a real life even way beyond your 40s.
Basically, those who subject their joints to heavy pressure and stress need this natural supplement. Having sedentary lifestyle, being overweight or obese would also deplete the synovial fluid and cause the cartilage to break down so these people too need to supply their joints with Power Joints.
Of course, the elderly would be the first beneficiary of the good effects of Power Joints. Sporty people who subject themselves into heavy training would do more if supplemented by Power Joints. Postmenopausal women also need the same. But for most of us ordinary people, if we like to experience the power of flexibility even as we age, better start taking in Power Joints before our 30th birthday.
Available in leading pharmacies nationwide, Power Joints is exclusively distributed by United Shelter Health Products.
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