Options for sufferers include medications, diet, excercise, topical creams, surgery, magnets, hot/cold therapy, cortisone injections, just to name a few. All of these methods used to alleviate or eliminate pain and stiffness have varying degrees of success. It's important to understand the underlying cause of your arthritis before you can successfully treat it. Always consult with your doctor before beginning any type of treatment plan.

Though each of the different types of the disease has its own causes, symptoms, and treatments, they all have 3 major things in common:

--the joint is affected

--there is pain and loss of mobility

--there is often inflammation

The causes include, but aren't limited to: physical trauma, degenerative joint disease, age, heredity, overuse of a joint, infection, obesity, tumor necrosis factor (TNF).

View the pages listed here for more information about available treatment options for pain relief and improved joint mobility.

Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis symptoms and treatments

Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms and treatments

Info about total hip replacement surgery Total hip replacement surgery guide--rehab and recovery

Info about knee replacement surgery Knee replacement surgery guide--rehab and recovery

knee arthroscopy Regain full knee potential after knee arthroscopy

Healing Foods for Arthritis Beat arthritis with healing foods

Gout Gout symptoms and treatments