Osteoarthritis is a group of diseases and mechanical abnormalities that involve degradation of the joints. Sometimes, the degradation can include articular cartilage as well as the subchondral bone that is next to the joint. This condition is the most common form of arthritis and it is also referred to as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease. This disease normally affects the hands, the feet and the spine. It also affects the large bearing joints such as the knees and the hips.

Clinical symptoms of this condition include pain, sharp ache or a burning sensation in the affected muscles and tendons.  Other symptoms are stiffness, inflammation and a creaking or a crackling noise when you move or touch the affected joint. You may also experience muscle spasm as well as contractions in the tendons.

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Joints with arthritis may have: swelling, warmth, redness or pain. Joint pain, stiffness, tenderness, and swelling are the most prominent signs of the disease. In addition, many patients experience fatigue, weight loss, and a condition called crepitus — a cracking sound that is also called popping joints.

Joints affected by arthritis are already under strain. If you are overweight or obese, the extra load on your joints may be exacerbating your symptoms, especially if your affected joints include those of the hip, knee or spine.

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Psoriasis is a long lasting, chronic skin ailment characterized by inflammation and scaling of outer layer of skin. The symptoms of psoriasis are chronic skin rash condition with a red or silver color and the skin has blisters.

The symptoms of having the disease are recurring attacks of skin rashes, small red patches that expands and becomes scaly, red plaques and silvery scales etc.

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Arthritis is an inflammatory and painful condition of joints that most people suffer from across the globe. Most people are under a notion that there is no treatment for arthritis once it has occurred. Even medical experts have claimed that there is no effective treatment available for arthritis once it strikes. There are several medications topical creams and oils available for relieving the symptoms of arthritis.

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There are generally 5 types of psoriasis: They are plaque, guttate, inverse, pustular and erythrodermic types. The most commonly recognized as plaque psoriasis. This is a skin condition and a disease. However, it is not contagious. The nomenclature is from Greek language which means “itching”. It can be genetic or caused due to external influences, such as: allergic reaction to food or the atmosphere and also sometimes excess stress, smoking and drinking.

Once someone has psoriasis, he has a higher probability to have it for ever. The disease may vanish once, and might come back again. It might show good result to various kinds of treatments, and sometimes not at all. Basically psoriasis is a condition of the body over producing the skin cells. Some portion of the skin might get swelled up because of the presence of too many skin cells particularly in a single location. This might even become dry and flaky. It gives the sensation of itchy and red skin. It can turn out to be sore, cracked and even tender at times.

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At one time described as a variety of leprosy, psoriasis is probably one of the longest known illnesses of humans and the least understood. While its confusion with leprosy may not have been all that surprising, considering its visual appearance on the skin, it was not until 1841 that the condition was finally given its own name by a Viennese dermatologist.

The non-contagious disease, which affects the skin and joints and commonly causes red scaly patches on the skin, are caused by psoriatic plaques, or areas of inflammation and excessive skin production. As the skin rapidly accumulates at these sites, it takes on a silvery-white appearance. It occurs most frequently on the elbows, knees, scalp, and genitals. Psoriasis is surmised to be activated by abnormal activity of the body’s immune system. The chronic condition is recurring and varies in its severity. According to the National Institutes of Health, it is estimated that nearly 7.5 million American suffer from psoriasis.

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For those whose pain continues even after adopting lifestyle changes, injections of hyaluronate, a synthetic joint fluid, may provide relief. But we are on the threshold of new scientific developments that, combined with early detection and intervention, promise to change arthritis treatment as we know it. Researchers are working on injectable gels that have properties resembling those of healthy joint fluid. They can be targeted to a specific joint to help reduce pain in the long term while protecting the cartilage. Preliminary data show that using your own blood plasma, which is rich in growth factors, may stimulate an arthritic joint to produce high-quality joint fluid. And there is promising research using stem cells and gene therapies that may enable us to regrow cartilage.

These new technologies could begin to hit the market in just a few years. In the meantime, eating a sound anti-inflammatory diet, taking safe supplements, and following a sensible exercise regimen while keeping your body weight in check will help you avoid many of the worst effects of arthritis.

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Synovium is the smooth lining of a bone joint and Synovitis is when that lining becomes inflamed. During the inflammatory process, the synovium becomes thicker and can make the joint swollen and puffy to the touch. It is usually extremely painful; particularly when the joint is being moved and is most often characterized by swelling that is caused by fluid collection in a synovial sac. Synovitis is a real risk in several forms of arthritis including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), lupus, gout and similar joint conditions. Synovitis is one way of distinguishing RA from other forms of arthritis, although it can be found in Osteoarthritis, but only moderately. Long-term Synovitis can result in degeneration of the joint, which can further increase symptoms of pain in sufferers.

What are the symptoms of Synovitis?

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Rheumatoid arthritis is a real reason for a person to worry, because of its progressive character. The cases of spontaneous remission, without using a treatment occur rarely. As there are many treatments available in the battle against arthritis, it is natural for different people to react differently.

The results depend on the following elements:

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CeNoMeD Therapy

Center for Non Medicinal Wellness Devices, or in short CeNoMeD has phonetic pronunciation which resembles “see no medicine”.

I am, K.S.S.Kumar, Director of CeNoMeD. This CeNoMeD therapy is my brain child. I was directly or indirectly involved in practice of Magneto therapy for about 20 years (I do not have any academic medical qualification). During this tenure, I came across various occasions, and made suitable devices for an apt matching for the ailment.

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