About Glucosamine

Arthritis is a sickness that can cause ache and inflammation in your joints. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee.

The two most common types of arthritis are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis can affect anyone at any age, including children. The incidence of arthritis increases with age, but nearly three out of every five sufferers are under age 65.

The word arthritis literally means joint inflammation, but arthritis is often used to refer to a group of more than 100 rheumatic diseases that can cause pain, stiffness, and swelling in the joints. Most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis – It is the most common in people over 60. These diseases may affect not only the joints but also other parts of the body, including important supporting structures such as muscles, bones, tendons, and ligaments, as well as some internal organs. Such damage can lead to joint weakness, instability and visible deformities that, depending on the location of joint involvement, can interfere with the most basic daily tasks such as walking, climbing stairs, using a computer keyboard, cutting your food or brushing your teeth. Some arthritis can cause problems in other organs, such as your eyes, or in your chest. Arthritis can also affect skin.

Along with osteoporosis and back pain, arthritis is one of the top three most common musculoskeletal diseases in the UK.

These problems may be caused by inflammation, a swelling that can include pain or redness. They are telling you that something is wrong.

 
Many people start to feel chronic pain and stiffness in their hands, neck, muscle, lower back, ankle, shoulder, hips or knees and are hard to move. These people may have arthritis.