joint aches and pains

1. Keeping oneself warm while staying indoors with hot blowers, blankets and extra woolens and all from tip to toe will be extremely helpful in keeping muscle and joint pains at bay.
2. Instead of becoming sedentary, we should stay active and join different types of exercises, like gymming, running, walking, cycling, etc., to rev up our body from getting stiffer and keep joint aches and pains away.
3. Warm baths.
4. Certain kinds of medications and nutritional supplements such glucosamine, chondroitin and different others nutrients and herbs which keep our joint fluids and joints nourished, soothes the cartilage and help improve the joint function and thus preventing muscle and joint pains, but only be taken under medical supervision.

With the advent of winter, a common problem is prevalent all over the world, i.e., joint aches and pains. Wet and damp weather, cold atmosphere, change in atmospheric pressure, and also decreased physical activities lead to our joints getting stiff and sore.

WHY WE GET JOINT ACHES AND PAINS DURING WINTER?

People who suffer from arthritis and different types of joint ailments have their joint aches and pains becoming worse during winter season and as the cold weather progresses, the problem aggravates. There are numerous reasons of why such thing happens.

Commonest of the reason for aggravating joint pains will be the change in atmospheric pressure and numerous scientific experiments have proved that true to the fore that in fact change in air pressure aggravates muscle and joint pains. Thus, one can say that arthritis patients have the automatic system to sense any kind of change in atmospheric pressure before the onset of rain or snow. It is said as the air pressure lowers and the mechanism by which atmospheric pressure holds back the soft tissue surrounding the joints loosens and any kind of inflamed tissues surrounding the joints will get expanded to fill the devoid. There may be nerve ending in the tissue which gets stimulated by the swelled tissues and in turn causing increased pain.

The second though is that during cold weather the body circulates more blood to the vital organs and less to the peripheral system such as legs or hands and thus making the joints stiffer leading to joint pain.

What happens when body sends less blood to the peripheral system along with the cold temperature outside that it drops the temperature of our skin from an average 90+°F to 70 to 80°F. If the skin will get colder, the nerve ending or pain sensors will get more activated and we will feel even if someone steps on our feet as if like crushed underneath a SUV. So, keeping oneself warm while staying indoors with hot blowers, blankets and extra woolens and all from tip to toe will be extremely helpful in keeping muscle and joint pains at bay.

Also cold conditions changes the way we lead our life and makes us sedentary, i.e., long hours of sitting or idling in bed leads to arthritic like symptoms. So instead of becoming sedentary, we should stay active and join different types of exercises to rev up our body from getting stiffer and keep joint aches and pains away.

Warm baths also soothes the joints.

Certain kinds of medications and nutritional supplements to lubricate the joints to prevent joint pains are advisable and those are glucosamine, chondroitin and different others nutrients and herbs which keep our joint fluids and joints nourished, soothes the cartilage and help improve the joint function and thus preventing muscle and joint pains. But any kind of medication or nutritional supplements should be strictly taken under medical supervision.