Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease. It is a mechanical problem involving the wearing of joints, including the destruction of cartilage and bone. Symptoms include joint pain and tenderness, stiffness, locking, and sometimes swelling. A variety of causes, including genetic, metabolic, and mechanical may begin the process of bone destruction. Bony surfaces eventually become less protected by cartilage, and bone is exposed and damaged. Osteoarthritis commonly produces hand pain, feet pain, back and neck pain. The large weight bearing joints, such as the hips and knees, are also frequently affected affected. As the disease progresses, the affected joints appear larger, are stiff and painful, and may feel worse the more they are used. If you've tried medications and therapy and continue to suffer, call us.

Osteoarthritis Relief

Osteoarthritis relief at the Feldenkrais Center in Encinitas, CA views restoring the normal functioning of the joints as vital, and takes into consideration that mechanical stress on joints underlies most osteoarthritis pain.

There are many sources of mechanical stress, including poor alignment of bones and poor general biomechanics. Both can be caused by trauma, misuse, disease, and underuse of the body. The Feldenkrais Method takes into consideration:

• Joints are a complicated system of relationships between bones.
• Joint pain only improves when the mechanics of the joint is improved.
• Faulty mechanics of the entire painful area is a common finding chronic pain.
• Altered relations create excessive strain in the joints and soft tissues of the area, with  increased inflammation and pain being only one common result.

Osteoarthritis treatment and osteoarthritis relief are the result of improving key relationships throughout the entire body, especially optimizing the functions of the spine and pelvis. You will receive therapy and Feldenkrais exercises that involve the whole body, the goals being to relieve your pain and to reduce the mechanical inflammation in the joints. At the Feldenkrais Center, our approach to treating your osteoarthritis pain allows a faster and more complete recovery than traditional treatments. Many patients report substantial relief in just a couple of weeks.