Living With Acute Joint Pain

When you live with chronic joint pain, you feel it every time you move, every time you breathe.

While many joint related injuries are gone nearly as quickly as they occur, many joint injuries can last a lifetime and may cause the patient high-levels of pain.

Whoever, the last few years there have been advances in sports medicine that may help patients who are currently suffering from a myriad of joint related injuries or pain. Corrective surgery, medicinal regimens, and special braces have made living with chronic joint pain not just bearable, but relatively pain-free.

Does Pain Cause Arthritis?

The University of Rochester has done research that suggests that pain may be what makes arthritis continue to manifest in patients.

According to tests conducted on mice, researchers found that the pain signals from arthritic areas causes a chemical signal response that inflames the arthritic area. As a result, that pain signal travels back from the spine to the joint, causing further inflammation.

When that signal is interrupted, inflammation is suspended.

Researches used a form of gene therapy to block the messages which cause the inflammation, during which the mice no longer exhibited behavior common with pain.