6 Powerful Topical Remedies For Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis

By Dr Noor Uddin

Natural Remedies For Osteoarthritis That You Can Apply On The Skin Over Your Joints

 

Did you know that there are many pain killing drugs and natural substances that are absorbed through your skin and make their way into your joints? Once they are in your joints, they can help to relieve the pain and stiffness of osteoarthritis, without you having to take anything by mouth.

 

The Trouble With Topical Drugs For Osteoarthritis

 

Topical non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs like ibuprofen and diclofenac) are a great option for people suffering from osteoarthritis, because they can help to relieve your symptoms, while avoiding the nasty side-effects of taking the same drug orally. However, NSAIDs in general have been shown to accelerate joint destruction over time.

 

Natural Topical Remedies More Powerful That Drugs?

 

Thankfully, there are some natural remedies you can apply on your skin, that studies have found to be equally effective as, or sometimes even more effective than, conventional medical drugs like topical and oral NSAIDs, at relieving osteoarthritis symptoms. These natural remedies neither cause any serious negative side-effects, nor do they destroy your joints with time (and may even promote healing of your joints in the long-run).

 

One Thing That Makes These Natural Remedies Particularly Powerful…

 

What makes these natural remedies hands down, miles better than any conventional medical drug, is that with medical drugs, you have to use them at the lowest effective dose for the shortest period of time to reduce the risk of side-effects; but you can use these natural remedies as often as you like and for as long as you like. You can use them if you  have mild pain, severe pain, or no pain for prevention.

 

They Have Extra Benefits Instead Of Side-Effects…

 

While conventional medical drugs have potentially serious negative side-effects, these natural remedies often have positive side-effects, where they boost your health, even if you only apply them on the skin overlying your joints. You can even consume some of these natural remedies to further boost the effect they have on relieving joint pain and stiffness, and on boosting your general health.

 

The Author's Personal Experience With These Remedies

 

The author of this book, Dr Noor Uddin, suffered from moderate to severe osteoarthritis himself, and regularly uses natural topical remedies to help keep his pain and stiffness at bay. In this short book, Dr Uddin reveals 6 of the most powerful natural topical remedies, that studies have shown may help reduce the pain and stiffness of osteoarthritis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dr Noor Uddin
• Release date: Mar 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781393426110

Book preview

PART I

WHO AM I AND HOW CAN I HELP YOU OVERCOME YOUR OSTEOARTHRITIS?

Dr Noor Uddin

Hi, I’m Dr. Noor Uddin, I’m a medical doctor in the UK.

What puts me in a unique position to help you with your osteoarthritis, is the fact that I suffered from severe osteoarthritis myself and overcame it.

I also have an interest in alternative, non-medical and non-surgical therapy, which is what helped me to overcome my crippling osteoarthritis pain and stiffness.

So here’s how it started with me.

I injured my left leg back when I was 13 years old, and my left knee has not been the same since.

As I grew older, the pain and stiffness in my knee got worse.

I remember my first job as a Foundation Year 1 Doctor, I was 24 years old, and as a junior doctor, there’s so much walking to do. You have to dash from patient to patient, from ward to ward, and all over the hospital, often for as long as 10-12 hours on the trot.

The only thing that allowed me to survive with my knee the way it was, was that I could occasionally take a seat while talking to my patients. But even sitting down was a pain, because my knee would be so stiff I could barely bend it enough to be able to sit. I’d have to go through excruciating pain to slowly bend that knee to a near-90 degree angle.

I recall one day when my knee was particularly bad at the end of a shift. I was walking to my car and didn’t know if I could make it. My knee was in so much pain, I had to stop and stand on my good leg while wondering what to do.

A senior colleague of mine saw me standing there and asked me what was wrong. This guy, Dr. Jun, had experience in orthopaedics. He explained to me how this is a problem that would get worse over time and that there was nothing short of surgery, that I could do to make it better.

This is the same story I’ve heard from other doctors my whole life.

I had asthma when I was young, and I always used to ask my doctors, Is there anything I can do to make my asthma better? And the response I would always get was, All you can do is take your medication, nothing else you do will make a difference to your asthma.

Then when I got into medicine myself, I learned that there was supposedly no evidence that anything aside from what conventional medicine had to offer, worked to cure diseases like asthma and arthritis.

Time and time again, I witnessed other doctors tell their patients the same thing: There’s nothing you can do.

I never did see my G.P. about my knee, because I knew exactly what any G.P. would say and do. During my years in medical school, I saw G.P.’s and orthopaedic surgeons say and do exactly the same thing for countless other patients with osteoarthritis, which is to prescribe stronger and stronger painkillers over time, and as the condition inevitably got worse, they would recommend knee replacement surgery.

Knowing the side effects and other problems that come with each of these steps, I knew that wasn’t a path I wanted to take. I’m hesitant to even take the very first step almost any doctor will recommend for osteoarthritis, which is to take either paracetamol or a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug like ibuprofen. I’ll tell you about the