Will Scoliosis Stop Progressing when you Stop Growing

Scoliosis is the curvature of the spine from one side to the other. It usually attacks the children, and the condition may get worse as they grow. Some have the doubt that will scoliosis stop progressing when you stop growing.

Scoliosis causes the spine to be uneven, some with the shape of “C” and some have the shape of “S”. Since the children continue growing, the spine deformity may likely to progress. So earlier treatment is the most important. In moderate curvature stage, the active curvature correcting method is the most helpful. Because the children are at growing stage, this means they can also better recover from the disease.

When the spine is mature and patients enter adulthood, will the curvature stop growing? This is actually hard to say. In some people, the condition may stay stable; but in others, the disease may cause the curvature continue to increase. If people are at earlier stage, it will be better to treat the disease at early time. Besides surgery treatment, people at earlier stages can choose to correct the curvature through traditional Chinese medicine combination therapy. It is a therapy especially helpful for safely correcting the curvature, it is a combination of typical TCM approaches, individualized and without side effects. We have treatment cases where the children regain their health without future potential risks. If you want to learn more about this, you may email us to cindyhe628@gmail.com, or you may visit our website:

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Patient question: My wife has an S curve with both curves being at 50 degrees. She is now 46 years old. The doctor said that surgery is not imperative at this moment but it is something that will eventually have to be done. Since we are getting older, it will become more and more difficult to recover from the surgery. So is it better for her to start surgery earlier, or should we wait as long as possible until surgery has to be done?”

Expert answer:

There are several standards for starting surgery in Scoliosis:

First, spinal curve of over 50 degrees;

Second, spinal curve of 40 to 50 degree that progress rapidly.

Thirdly, other considerations, such as risk of severe complications

Scoliosis operation is a large surgery. It is a process of spinal fusion to straighten the spine. Because your spinal bones protect your spinal cord, your surgeon will move the bones only as far as is safe. As people grow older, the bones become more fragile than young people so there needs overall evaluation of the patient’s condition before determining surgery.

In daily life, it needs to take care to balance nutrition support to make stronger bones. If the patient condition continues to get worse, with complications such as lung damage getting severer, there may be need for initiating surgery and you will need to communicate with the doctor.

So how about your wife’ s general condition now? Does she have symptoms or complications related to Scoliosis? You may email me to scoliosisdoctor123@gmail.com about detailed description of her illness condition and lab reports to me for the help needed.

Wax Therapy is effective for rheumatoid arthritis patients

Wax? You may fell surprised. How can wax used as treatment therapy. Actually, wax therapy has long history in traditional Chinese medicine. And the clinical practice has shown that wax therapy is effective for rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Hou't Therapy developed the traditional wax therapy by combining some special medicines into the specially made wax fat. The wax fat medicine will be applied on the lesions after being heated.
Its main function mechanisms are as following.
1.Tepidity function. As wax has rather high thermal capacity, while its thermal conductivity is low, so the heat of wax therapy can maintain a long time. It can help the absorption of congested blood and accelerate the fading of swelling. Besides, it can enhance the phagocytosis of reticuloendothelial system. And it has the functions of anti-inflammation, improving local nutrition, promoting local metabolism, improving the skin elasticity and limpness and relieving the stiffness and muscle spasm.
2.Mechanical compression function. As wax has good plasticity and sticky, it can impinge on skin closely. During the cooling process, its volume shrinks 10-20%, which generates certain gender mechanical compression for skin and subcutaneous tissue. So it can not only prevent the exudation of lymph and blood but also promote the absorption of effusion.
3.Heat and permeation function. By warming and activating meridian and promoting blood circulation, wax therapy brings the medicine function smoothly into lesions, which combines the medicine effects with physical therapy. So it has good function of dispelling wind and eliminating dampness, warming channels and expelling cold and relaxing tendons and promoting blood circulation.
Actually, except for rheumatoid arthritis, wax therapy can be applied for the following conditions.
1.Chronic injury of soft tissue: cervical spondylosis, lumbar muscle strain, etc;
2.Bone arthritis, rheumatism, rheumatoid disease, ankylosing spondylitis, periarthritis of shoulder and tenosynovitis, synovitis, slippery bursa phlogistic, etc;
3.Trauma or postoperative tissue adhesion, scar, bumps and joint contracture rigidity, etc;
4.Chronic gastroenteritis, gastrointestinal dysfunction, etc;
5.Dysmenorrhea, pelvic inflammation of department of gynaecology. Cold, male impotence, premature ejaculation, the waist knee acid and prostate disease;
6.Skin healthy care.
More information, you can email to treatmentchina@gmail.com. Glad to communicate with you.
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Nine Non-surgical Treatment Methods for Scoliosis in Zhang’s Combination Therapy (Ⅱ)

This is the continued introducing of Nine Non-surgical Treatment Methods for Scoliosis in Zhang’s Combination Therapy. This part mainly contains six non-surgical treatment methods.

Ⅳ Braces for immobilization: It can consolidate the effects of massage and traction, and make sure the corrected spine steady without rebound. It can also increase intervertebral space, smooth protuberance and correct curvature. A medicine pad is along with the brace and can keep dosing on the diseased region.

Ⅴ Treat by using blood circulation machine :

1. It can activate spine and ligament, help correcting spine curvature.

2. It can correct the dislocation on sideways of spine and curvature of foramen of spinal nerves, eliminate the compression on spinal nerves and the palsy of peripheral nerves.

3. It can relieve muscle fatigue and pain.

4. It can increase oxygen intake and oxygen-carrying function of blood.

5. It can help producing blood cells of spinal cord veins.

6. It can adjust the function of autonomic nerve and improve respiratory system.

7. It can promote intestinal peristalsis as well as intestine and stomach functions, prevent and relieve stomachache, and prevent intestine reverse or ileuses.

Ⅵ Maintaining traction: It can help maintaining the effects of thoracic and lumbar traction, increase intervertebral space, correct and straighten bending spine, soothe intense nerves, and help the blood and qi circulation to transport nutrition all over the body.

Ⅶ Scoliotone: It can strip the adhesion, activate joints, correct distorted ribs and bending and rotated spine. It can also apply medicine on diseased region and form a magnetic field to promote the correction of spine.

Ⅷ recuperation through TCM: According to different conditions, constitutions and stadiums of patients, we use different medicine and doses to assist treatments.

Ⅸ Biological artificial eruption of luminous energy system is composed by electromagnetic wave treatment, luminous energy thermal therapy and artificial eruption therapy. This system is using advanced Germany techniques, and firstly adopted the treatment of heating tissues and diseased tissues, improving the treatment effect through the thermal effect.

With this group of non-surgical treatment methods, Zhang’s Combination Therapy has benefited thousands of patients from all over the world. And we also take some detail medical case of some foreigner patients from Russia, America, Canada and so on. 

Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis without Medicine

For people with Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA), there are some natural treatments that could help ease your pain and improve your health condition. Those are self-applied favorable choices for control of RA without medicines. The following will introduce the detailed information.

Rheumatoid Arthritis is an ongoing illness that tears down joints and causes deformity. The disease not only causes pain, but also cause people to use joints in a way that may damage other structures. Doing proper activities can help to maintain strength and flexibility, and prevent RA-related pains. To begin with, you can choose an activity you enjoy, such as walking, biking, Yoga, Tai Chi, and you’ll need to remember to not overdo the activity.

In addition, doing exercises also bring other benefits for people with RA. Since Rheumatoid Arthritis increase your risk of Osteoporosis, doing weight-bearing exercises can help to keep your bones strong.

What’s more, people with RA can use heat or cold compresses to ease pains. Cold compresses have the function of reducing inflammation, and it is mainly used in the active flare-up stage of RA to delay deterioration of the illness condition. In comparison, heat compresses is mainly used in the stable stage of RA to relax your muscles, stimulate blood flow and ease symptoms associated with RA.

The natural treatments also include proper balanced diet. People with Rheumatoid Arthritis should avoid high fat and high cholesterol foods, since the ketones, acids and inflammatory mediators generated by such foods can inhibit functions of T lymphocytes, aggravate joint pain, swelling, osteoporosis and bone destruction. Foods such as barley, tofu, celery, yams and lentils are helpful for nourishing the spleen and removing dampness, and can alleviate swelling in the patients.

The above introduces the natural treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis without medicines to alleviate symptoms and slow down deterioration of disease; however, it should be noted that those are health care approaches and will not replace the treatment. If you experience severe symptoms or uncontrolled illness condition, you will need to seek for effective treatment immediately.

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Why are Patients with RA Sensitive to Cold Weather

In regions with high dampness, there is higher incidence of Rheumatoid Arthritis. The patients with RA also find themselves quite sensitive to cold weather. On cloudy, rain or cold days, symptoms such as joint swelling and pain caused by Rheumatoid Arthritis are often aggravated. Well then, is there any relationship between the occurrence & aggravation of RA and cold or humid climate?

Among various inducing causes of Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA), cold and dampness invasion is an important factor. Long term living in humid environment can cause imbalances of the internal environment and increase the secretion of inflammatory cytokines, thus likely inducing Rheumatoid Arthritis. In traditional Chinese medicine theory, blood and qi deficiency is the endopathic factor for the occurrence of RA, while cold, wind and dampness invasion is the inducing cause. In the progression course, the unremoved dampness and cold and blocked collateral channels can cause organic dysfunctions, joint damage or even deformity.

When the weather gets cold, patients with RA need to put on more clothes to prevent wind and cold. During hot days, you should also remember not to sleep under the air-conditioner with low temperature or in the open air for the whole night. That’s because during sleep, every pore of the body is open, so wind & cold is more likely to invade the body and induce or aggravate RA. Generally, the elderly, women after pregnancy, or those with poorer physical constitution have lower resistance to wind invasion, so they should take special care to keep warm and prevent occurrence or aggravation of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

The above is on the topic why patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis are sensitive to cold weather. Actually, removing cold and humidity is one of the important means in traditional Chinese medicine treatment to satisfactorily treat RA. If you want to learn more relevant information, you may contact us.

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Can Dermatomyositis Be Cured

Dermatomyositis is a chronic inflammation of muscles and skin throughout the body. Although there is no cure for this disease, earlier effective treatment helps to prevent ongoing progression and get a better result.

Can Dermatomyositis be cured?—effective treatment is the key

Firstly, causes and damage of Dermatomyositis:

Although there is no known cause of Dermatomyositis, it is believed that an autoimmune reaction which mistakes cells of the muscle as dangerous substances and attack them. In the developing course, the disease can involve muscles of the lungs, esophagus, throat, etc. Severe complications of the disease include difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, pneumonia, gastrointestinal ulceration, etc.

Secondly, clinical treatment for Dermatomyositis

Drugs available mainly functions to suppress the immune system and limit the production of autoantibodies so as to protect muscle functions. Examples of common immunosuppressive drugs include Methotrexate, Azathioprine, Cytoxan, Neoral, Sandimmune, etc. If the patients respond poorly to those drugs or their illness condition is uncontrolled by one or several of those drugs, doctors may prescribe some newly researched biologics which have potent immunosuppressive functions, such as Rituximab, tumor necrosis factor(TNF) inhibitor, etc.

For the patients with Dermatomyositis, uncontrolled symptoms or complications are signal of active inflammation and progressing illness condition. In this case, you will need immediate change of medication plan. The earlier Dermatomyositis is effectively controlled, the better your prognosis will be.

Clinically, patients with Dermatomyositis have varying disease course; some patients have their disease well controlled in early stage, while some others may have increasing complications with their illness condition deteriorating to the advanced stage.

Finally and above all, for patients with Dermatomyositis seeking for a cure, it is essential to monitor and closely observe changes of illness condition, and note that early tight control is the key. For any further individualized information on management of Dermatomyositis, you may contact us.

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Simple and Practical Managing Tips for Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients

Patients who are suffering ankylosing spondylitis (AS) all know it is a rather painful experience. What’s more, AS is a chronic disease, which means its disease course is rather long. So the managing for it is very import to relieve patient’s suffering and control illness condition. Now we are introducing you Simple and Practical Managing Tips for Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients.

1, keep proper and correct posture. Improper posture can be harmful to the ultimate position of patient’s spine. Watch how you sit. Try to move your spine regularly, straighten it out and stretch it by sitting tall and pulling your shoulders back. Lie flat on your back or your front for 20 minutes a day. Some of this time should be spent lying on your bed on your back with your legs dangling toward the floor.

2, proper furniture, including chairs, bed, mattress, pillows. The ideal chair has a firm seat and an upright, firm back, preferably extending to the head. A chair with arms will also help to relieve pressure on the spine. Select your mattress and pillow with care. Your mattress should be firm, without sag, but not too hard. Try to use few pillows, preferably only one.

3, have a shower with proper warmth. A hot bath or shower in the morning or before bed may reduce pain and stiffness. If you have a particularly inflamed area, an ice pack wrapped in a damp towel may help.

4, keep a balanced diet and avoid overweight, which puts added stress on the spine.

5, no alcohol if you use anti-inflammatory medicines to help control your condition. Anti-inflammatory drugs and alcohol can both affect the stomach lining and should therefore not be taken together.

6, no smoking. Ankylosing spondylitis can reduce the capacity of the lungs. Smoking can make this even worse, making you more prone to lung infections and shortness of breath.

Hope the above information can help you. More information about ankylosing spondylitis (AS), you can contact me by email: treatmentchina@gmail.com. Glad to communicate with you.

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Is Massage Good for Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS)

Is Massage Good for Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS) 

Message helpful for remitting the symptoms in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS). As is known, Ankylosing Spondylitis is a chronic progressive disease that primarily damage the spine and reduce normal activities of the spine. Message can help to improve joint mobility and quality of life. However, the patients should do massage under the guidance of expert doctors.

Massage for patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS)

Massage is a health care method for patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS). Usually, Ankylosing Spondylitis firstly attacks sacroiliac joint, and later extend upwards to the cervical vertebra. As a consequence, the patients may experience repeated back pain, sacroiliac stiffness, and alternate waist and hip pains. With the illness condition progressing, the pais are alleviated, however, the spine joint and other joints are deformed, which is difficult to be treated.
For the patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis, massage can be applied as an assistant therapy.  During massage, using the contraction and relaxation of muscle groups around the hip and trunk of the axial skeleton can put the symptoms of AS into remission. If a patient suffers from severe pains from AS, seeking for massage treatment will help to remit the symptom. Remember that massage should be done by an expert doctor.

However, it should be noted that massage will not help for treating the injured joints. It can be used as a health care method, but actually don’t help for the control of progression or joint damage that already exists.

Conclusion

Massage is one of natural therapies for treating Ankylosing Spondylitis. For the patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS), there are better treatment options to well treat the disease (Please refer to Better Treatment Options for Ankylosing Spondylitis). If you want individualized treatment suggestion for AS, you may contact us directly.

Can Dermatomyositis Affect Muscles that Control Digestion

In some patients with Dermatomyositis, they find themselves have slowed speed of digestion. Actually, it is a manifestation of muscle damage caused by Dermatomyositis. In addition, the patients have other symptoms associated with muscle or skin injury, such as skin rash, hoarseness, regurgitation, etc.

Can Dermatomyositis affect muscles that control digestion?

Dermatomyositis is an autoimmune disease that typically damages skin and muscles, with variable involvement of joints, lungs, etc. Symptoms of skin damage mainly include purple spots in the face, neck, upper chest, changed skin color, calcium deposition under the skin, chronic skin ulcer, etc.

Usually, Dermatomyositis firstly attacks shoulder girdle muscle, proximal striated muscles, pharynx, throat or esophageal muscles. Due to inability of throat muscle or lingualis, the patients may experience difficulty swallowing. Involved damage to smooth muscles in the esophagus and digestive tract can extend gastric emptying time, thus leading to symptoms such as abdominal distension, nausea, sour regurgitation, heartburn, etc. Occasionally, the patients may experience gastrointestinal perforation or bleeding.

In some cases, Dermatomyositis may cause severe muscle diseases, such as heart failure, diplopia, muscle cramp, hardened skin, myasthenia gravis, etc.

Considerations

As we can find from the above, Dermatomyositis can cause varying diseases that affect the health and normal life. Early treatment and prevention is the best solution to prevent deterioration. If you are suffering from slowed digestion or other gastrointestinal tract symptoms caused by Dermatomyositis, don’t hesitate to seek for treatment immediately. For any help needed, you may contact with our free online service.
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Will Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) Cause Osteoarthritis

In some cases, patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) may also experience accompanying Osteoarthritis, so they have the doubt whether RA is the cause of Osteoarthritis. It can be understood that combination of the two diseases worsen the illness condition of the patients. Therefore, in this passage, we will introduce relationship between RA and Osteoarthritis, and explain the proper treatment to manage the illness condition to help raise awareness and get a comprehensive understanding.

Will Rheumatoid Arthritis cause Osteoarthritis?—Relationship between RA and Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease characterized by degradation of joints, reactive hyperplasia of articular cartilage and subchondral bone. Clinically, common symptoms of the disease include joint pain, stiffness, swelling, locking and deformity. As a result of cartilage loss, the disease will lead to bone exposure and damage.

Osteoarthritis may come as a resulting disease of Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA), and can also be caused by other diseases, such as Gout, Diabetes, osteomyelitis, etc, or due to other associated factors such as obesity, old age, etc.

Therefore, before treating Osteoarthritis, the first step is to confirm its inducing cause. The treatment of Osteoarthritis should be focused on treating the primary cause of the disease.

Proper treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) and Osteoarthritis

In western medicine, common treatment for Osteoarthritis generally involves a combination of exercise, lifestyle modification and analgesics. The treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis also includes lifestyle, dietary, medication and surgical treatments for controlling symptoms and slowing down progression of the disease.

Both Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis are chronic arthritis disease, suggesting that the illness condition may deteriorate over prolonged periods. The best way of treating the two diseases is to bring the illness condition under control, which could help patients enjoy longer periods of remission and get better results.

In daily life, it is important to keep alert of any sign of flares. Active inflammation during flares will damage the joints. Once the damage is done, no drug will reverse it. Therefore, if you have some symptoms or conditions uncontrollable, you will need to seek for adjustment of treatment plan from an expert doctor.

The above introduces the relationship between Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis and proper treatments for the two diseases. If you are in need of help, you may contact us directly.
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Deep breath exercise is good for Ankylosing Spondylitis patients

Deep breath has great benefit for patients of ankylosing spondylitis, even for patients with deformed spind, it is still sutible. Now we will introduce how deep breath exercise is good for Ankylosing Spondylitis patients.

First, deep breath can expel the metabolites and residual gas in the lung and inhale more fresh air, which is helpful to prevent from respiratory disease, provide enough oxygen for all the organs and improve or enhance the organs function.

Second, regular deep breath can help to expanding lung and chest so as to improve the vital capacity and prevent from lung infections.

Third, regular inhale and exhale can maintain the flexibility of chest and spine. For ankylosing spondylitis patients, they can take the deep breath in water. Stand or sit in water with head above the water, and then inhale slowly. At this time, the muscle must exergize to confront the resistance of water, which can exercise the muscles.

Of course, if patients want to achieve good effects by deep breathing, they need to how to breathe correctly.

Patients need to choose a place with fresh air and do the deep breath exercise 2-3 times per day. Now we are introducing the patients a respiratory gym in Yoga therapy, which combined the thoracic breathing and abdominal breathing together. First, inhale deeply to make the abdomen distent and then make the chest distent until to the limit. And then hold your breath for several second. And then exhale the air slowly. When you exhale, you need to shrink the chest first and then the abdomen, trying the best to expel the sir in lung. You can repeat this kind of deep breath for 3-5 minutes per time.

Besides, for some patients in acute period, they can stay in bed for complete rest for several days. In this condition, they can adopt some physical methods to relieve local pain, such as ice compress or warm water bath, which is helpful to relieve the joint stiffness and muscle cramp.

Deep breath exercise is good for Ankylosing Spondylitis patients. it is a simple and practical methods for the patients, because it is suitable for patients in different stages and conditions and patients can do it anytime and anywhere. Actually, there are naturally therapies and methods to relieve the suffering of ankylosing spondylitis patients. if you need to learn more information, you can email to treatmentchina@gmail.com.
Better Treatment Options for Ankylosing Spondylitis

Why Patients with AS Experience Leg or Foot Cramps

Some patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS) complain of leg or foot cramps. The symptom may come very severe and wake people up at night. So, what is the effective treatment to alleviate the leg and foot cramps? Before mentioning the treatment, let’s learn about causes of the symptom first.

Why patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis(AS) experience leg or foot cramps?

Actually, leg or foot cramp are associated with various causes. A healthy person may also experience cramps due to some non-pathogenic reasons such as cold, excessive sweating, lack of calcium, etc.

In patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis, muscle cramps may come as an early symptom of the disease. In the early stage, Ankylosing Spondylitis may involve the scsacroiliac joint or several segments of the spine, which can cause joint pains and muscle cramps around the involved joints. With the illness condition progressing,  joint pain is alleviated, but the involved spine and joints are deformed. In the advanced stage, the whole spine and lower limbs become stiff and bend forward.

How to treat leg or foot cramps in Ankylosing Spondylitis?

Firstly, the patient should seek for clear diagnosis to confirm the inducing cause of the symptom. If the symptom is caused by common reasons such as lack of calcium, stimulation by cold, etc, the doctors may prescribe certain supplements, dietary suggestions or proper exercises to help treat the symptom.

If the leg or foot cramps is the resulting symptom of Ankylosing Spondylitis, the effective treatment should be based on properly treating the disease. Certain painkillers or anti-inflammatory drugs may be prescribed for the patient. Since Ankylosing Spondylitis is a chronic progressing disease and may cause joint deformity in advanced stage, early, positive and effective treatment is very crucial. If you find your condition poorly controlled or flares occur, you will need expert guidance to timely bring the disease under control. Any help needed, you may consult our experts online directly for free.

Better Treatment Options for Ankylosing Spondylitis

How to Improve the Prognosis and Life Quality of Avascular Necrosis

Avascular necrosis (AVN) is a chronic refractory disease. So if patients want to improve the prognosis, they must have some basic understanding of this disease. Well, how to improve the prognosis and life quality of avascular necrosis?

1.Don’t walk or stand long time. As the avascular necrosis mainly invades the hip joints, patients had better not walk or stand for long time, so as to decrease the burden and pressure on hip joints. Besides, the hip joints activity is limited and the bone is fragile because of AVN, so patients’ reaction ability will decline and they are more likely to experience fracture. Therefore, in activity, patients should be more careful to avoid tumble.

2.In early stages, patients can take abducts as treatment, which depends on the illness condition severity and the walking distance. Or patients can adopt riding if the illness condition and physique condition is allowed. In late stages, patients can adopt wheelchair for outdoor activity.

3.Proper upper limb functional practice. Patients of AVN need proper rest in bed. At the same time, proper upper limb functional practice is necessary, as well as knee joints exercise. If the condition allows, they had better do some outdoor exercise and bask for a while everyday. Basking can help to compound vitamin D in skin and muscle, which will promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorous. This is helpful to maintain the bone substance and improve the repair and regeneration of damaged bone.

4.Regular medication treatment. Actually, for the whole treatment course, medication is the most important part. As it is a long treatment progress, patients need to seek for long-term treatment and effects, which need the persistence and cooperation of the patients

As the subject of the disease and treatment, all the treatment and nurse take effects through the patients themselves. Just as experts said, the treatment effects rely on the medicine and doctor’s skill, but they rely more on patients’ cooperation, treatment desire and confidence. If you need more information about the AVN, you can email to treatmentchina@gmail.com

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How to Reduce Side-effects of Hormone for SLE

Many patients have great resistance for hormone medicines because of their great side-effects. is there any thing we can do to reduce the side-effects? Now we are introducing you how to reduce side-effects of hormone for SLE.

First, take careful observation and periodic physical examination.

SLE is kind of refractory auto-immune disease. With the progress of disease, it becomes necessary for patients to adopt hormone medicine. As the side-effects of hormone medicines, patients had better take periodic physical examinations, including blood pressure, blood sugar, blood fat, electrolyte and so on. In order to prevent from myasthenia caused by hypokalemia, patients can take some potassium chloride, 1g/time and 3 times per day. For example, 10% potassium chloride solution, patients can take it orally, 10ml per time and three times per day. Besides, patients should avoid hexadecadrol and triamcinolone as much as possible to avoid hormonal myopathy. Patients need to take light diets to prevent from gastrointestinal tract ulceration.

To prevent from kidney and liver function damage, patients need to take regular blood routine examination

Second, combine traditional Chinese medicine with hormone medicines. Large amount of research has shown the traditional Chinese medicine has great function to confront the side-effects of western medicine. The combination of traditional Chinese medicine not only can enhance the treatment effects but also can reduce the side-effects.

Only if patients can insist the treatment and keep the confidence to fight with the disease, it is possible for patients to live a normal life. In clinical, Hou’s Therapy has good effects on treating Lupus. At the same time, it has good effects on preventing infection, AVN, and it also has good effects on controlling hypertension, diabetes and cornary heart disease. All in all, it can greatly reduce the side-effects of hormone for SLE by regulating metabolism function.

Experts remind patients, for such kind of auto-immune disease as SLE, they had better take proper traditional Chinese medicine therapy as combination. If you need more detail information, you can send an email to treatmentchina@gmail.com.

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not incurable disease

Actually, rheumatoid arthritis is not incurable disease. It can be related to inheritance, internal secretion, gender, climate, bacteria and virus infection and various factors. For example, this disease attacks more in women, especially women in 30-50 years old, and the morbidity increase in men above 50 years old. However, the exact pathogenesis is still not clear, and this is why it is hard to prevent and cured completely.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a type of chronic general immune disease characterized by synovitis, which is one the most common rheumatoid disease and is one the disease of highest disability rate. In China, the morbidity of rheumatoid arthritis is up to 0.34%. it is often called “deathless caner”, while the treatment effects have been improved greatly with decades of research and development.
It is possible now to turn illness condition to completely remission and prevent disability.
What matters the most is the early and timely treatment. Experts remind people to go to hospital to get regular diagnosis and treatment timely when there is joint swelling, pain, morning stiffness and other early symptoms.
To cure rheumatoid arthritis, patients should get early treatment, regular treatment and they must insist on long term treatment.
First, early treatment. Experts in Beijing Hou Liping Rheumatoid Hospital remind us to go to rheumatism immunity branch of normal hospital to get overall examination and diagnosis when there is joint pain, swelling, stiffness of hand joints, wrist joints. if patients take treatment after the joint damage, the effects won’t be very good.
Second, regular treatment. After diagnosis, patients must accept regular treatment from normal hospital. Experts warned patients don’t blindly believe “folk therapy” or secret prescriptions.
Third, insist on treatment. The rheumatoid arthritis treatment is a long term progress, so patients should be patient and insist on treatment. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not incurable disease, and patients need to be confident and overcome the attitude to give up.
Besides, as patients take various kinds of medicine, their diets had better be light so as to protect stomach from damage. In daily life, patients can practice some aerobic exercise, such as walking, jogging, swimming, riding and so on, which can help to enhance physique and immunity and avoid infections. Patients also can do some functional practice for joints, such as hands squeezing movements, stretch or flexion practice of legs. The amount of exercise should be small at the beginning and then increase gradually.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is not incurable disease. Patients and family should be confident and take positive treatment timely. Never give up. Free consultation email: treatmentchina@gmail.com.

Is Methotrexate Effective in Treating RA

Is methotrexate(MTX) effective in treating Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA)? Patients on MTX treatment for their RA are rather concerned about the effectiveness of this drug and the potential side effects. Well then, in this passage, we’ll explain it for you.
Methotrexate in the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA): benefits and side effects
Methotrexate is a potent drug. It mainly functions by interfering the way cells utilize nutrients, thus inhibiting the immune activity and resisting inflammation. The drug may slow the growth of cells in the synovial membrane that line the joints and reduce progression of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Over the past years, the treatment for RA has changed from conservative therapy to the formation of idea that early, aggressive treatment is imperative. Researches have indicated that early methotrexate treatment in RA may provide the patients a better a result. Methotrexate is a long-term treatment in RA. The drug can slow the progression of this disease, and steady improvement can be seen in patients on this drug for months or years.
However, most of the fears are about the hidden toxic effects caused by use of this drug, such as lung disease, anemia, etc. Liver damage is among the potential threats since once the damage occurs, it is
irreversible. Therefore, tests are sometimes needed to monitor whether those problems are occurring. Signs such as hair loss and mouth or skin soreness are indicators of toxic reaction of methotrexate. In such cases, the drug should be discontinued.
Nausea is a common side effects of methotrexate. The nausea can often disappear on its own, or may be relieved after reducing the dosage,
Points to know
Because the drug may lead to birth defects, men planning to become fathers and mothers being or planning to be pregnant should avoid using methotrexate. The drug is also not suitable for people who drink a lot of alcohol because it can greatly increase their risk of severe liver problem.

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How to Prevent from Relapse of SLE

There are many factors easy to cause the relapse of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which makes this disease always in unstable state. While, how patients prevent from relapse of SLE?
SLE is a auto-immune disease that mainly invade connecti8ve tissues, involving organs of every system. It is a world-recognized refractory disease. Although it can be controlled with hormones, alternation of relapse and remission is the main clinical characteristic.
Now we are showing you the common factors that easy to stimulate the relapse of SLE.
1, solar exposure and ultraviolet irradiation. For patients of lupus diathesis, sunshine or ultraviolet irradiation can change the deoxyribonucleic in cells,generating antigen-antibody reaction to stimulate the lupus relapse. Besides, repeated X-ray irradiation or strong lighting exposure both can lead to the recur of lupus. Sometimes, discoid lupus erythematosus can develop to be SLE after stong irradiation or exposure. Therefore, patients of SLE should avoid direct sunshine exposure. They can bring umbrellas, wear hats, put on long sleeves and trousers if they have to be exposed in sunshine.
2, medicines induction. Sometimes, the onset of lupus is obviously related to medicines, such as Penicillin and sulfa, bute, hydralazine, procaine amide, c at once, phenytoin sodium chloride, isoniazid, oral contraceptives, and so on, which can turn lupus in remission into active stage. So patients need to be careful when they need to take such kind of medicines, and they had better take medicines in the direction of doctors.
3, cold stimulation. Most SLE patients are very easy to have a cold because of their poor immunity. The inflammatory reaction during cold will induce the relapse of SLE. Therefore, patients need to change the clothes timely according to whether change, especially during alternation of four seasons.
4, pregnancy and delivery. SLE appears mostly in women in childbearing age, whose ability to have children is as normal as healthy people. However, patients of SLE must be prudent to be pregnant, because SLE and pregnancy have adverse impact on each other. The most severe impact of pregnancy for patients in the kidney damage. Therefore, for women patients of lupus, whether they can be pregnant, when it is better for them to have a child, what need to be done after pregnancy and how to prevent pregnancy if they can not have a baby, all these problems needs the specially direction of doctors.

Learning these factors may help patients and family to prevent relapse of SLE. And more information about SLE or lupus, you can send an email to treatmentchina@gmail.com. Glad to help you.
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Ozone Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA)

Is Ozone therapy effective in treating Rheumatoid Arthritis? If you are just searching the internet for the treatment options of Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA), then you may find the information you want here. In the following, we will introduce two treatment options for Rheumatoid Arthritis: Ozone therapy and Hou’s Smoothing & Unification Therapy.
Ozone therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA)
Ozone therapy is the use of ozone to treat diseases. Its treatment is based on the following theory: normally, cells in human body burn carbohydrates with oxygen to produce energies. The occurrence of diseases is associated to disease causing germs. Most of those germs are anaerobic. Without sufficient oxygen, cells can’t use suger for fuel any more, consequently leading the cells to ferment. In Ozone therapy, ozone is used to stimulte red blood cells to produce more oxygens, and stimulate white blood cells to produce more defense cells to fight infections. Therefore, the treatment helps to dilate blood vesse, kill germs, and improve anoxia condition to treat diseases.
Hou’s Smoothing & Unification Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA)
Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) has been existing for thousands of years and is a well-respected treatment worldwide. Hou’s Smoothing & Unification Therapy is developed through clinical research of effective treatment approaches in TCM on Rheumatic diseases and combining modern advanced techniques into the treatment. Based on syndrome differentiation, patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA) are provided combination of different TCM treatments including acupuncture, massage, fire needle therapy, bran therapy, Jiuyinhuiyang therapy, constitution therapy, etc, with each aiming at different purpose and the overall aiming at alleviating systemic symptoms, recovering joint functions and stopping recurrence of Rheumatic diseases.
Hou’s Smoothing & Unification Therapy is a complex treatment system, and each treatment step plays a significant unreplacable role. Take dietary therapy for example. In Chinese medicine, there is the saying that dietary treatment goes first before medicines. Poor appetite makes it hard to bulid physical constitution. On the basis of dispelling pathogenic factors and rehabilitating immunity by acupunture, Jiuyinhuiyang therapy, etc, providing essential nutrients based on the patients’ condition help to recover from diseases. Certain beneficial herbs can be made into a recipe with other ingredients to assist the treatment, which will be guided by an expert doctor of Chinese medicine.

The above introduces Ozone Therapy and Hou’s Smoothing & Unification Therapy for treating Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA). It is just a general introduction. For any further details about the treatment, you may contact us.
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Vegetables to Help Fight Dermatomyositis

When people get Dermatomyositis, they should pay more attention to what they eat. Foods that can worsen the illness condition should be avoided. Vegetables and fruits beneficial for fighting the disease should be included into your diet.
What foods are unsuitable for patients with Dermatomyositis?
*Foods that can cause allergic reactions should be avoided, such as sea fish, shrimps, crabs, etc.

*Foods containing aseptic and addictive, such as cans, drinks, cold
*Foods that promote light sensitivity or immune function, such as caraway, leek, celery, day lily, mushroom, fig, etc.
*Spicy or stimulating foods like mutton, pepper, tea, green onion, ginger, garlic, etc.
*Quit alcohol and cigarettes.
*Avoid eating cold or greasy foods.
What are beneficial foods to fight Dermatomyositis?
In the active stage of disease, the patients may have fever and dry mouth. Generally, all kinds of fruits can be chosen by the patients to supply vitamins and other necessary elements to the body. Taking anti-rheumatic drugs can cause gastrointestinal tract symptoms and reduce appetite. In this case, light-flavored foods are suitable for the patients, and taking more fresh fruits and vegetables will be beneficial for slaking thirst and supplementing fluid to the body.
The diet should be adjusted according to change of the illness condition. If the patients exhibit symptoms only in the joints, without fever, spleen or stomach discomforts, there is no much restrictions on daily diet.. For the patients with gastrointestinal damage caused by ulcer or medications, digestible well-cooked foods are suggested to relieve the damage and ease symptoms.
In traditional Chinese medicine treatment, the diet is changed according to changes of tongue coating. Patients with thin and white tongue coating should choose moderate foods such as ginger tea, ginger soup added by sugar, ginger skin soup, etc. Thin and yellow tongue coating is often a sign of heat gathering in the body, so light-flavored foods such as white gourd soup, mung soup, tomato and green leaf soup are often suggested to the patients.

A balanced diet and healthy foods can help the patients with Dermatomyositis to fight against Dermatomyositis. Since the above is just a general introduction, the patients should be clear of their condition and make a dietary plan after consulting their doctor and dietitian, or you can also submit a description of your illness condition to get expert guidance

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Characteristics of Juvenile Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS)

Many parents write to consult about their children’ juvenile ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Comparing with adult AS, juvenile ankylosing spondylitis is rather different, as well as its treatment. So what are the characteristics of juvenile ankylosing spondylitis? Learning about this helps us adopt more effective treatments for our children.

Comparing with adult ankylosing spondylitis,  although juvenile AS has many commons, it has many differences.

1, most patients’ age of onset is between 8 and 16. This disease rarely attack before 8.

2, the positive rate of HLA-B27 can reach to 90%, which is very useful for the diagnosis of this disease.

3, most children patients can experience peripheral arthritis almost in any progression stages, while, for adult patients, there is only 30～60% of peripheral arthritis.

4, 80% of children patients’ onset is begin with peripheral arthritis, and only about 10 percent of children are attacked with waist pain and stiffness. However, in adult patients, the onset with peripheral arthritis and waist pain is about half and half.

5, enthesopathy is much more common on children patients of juvenile ankylosing spondylitis than adult patients.

On the other hand, as 80% of children patients’ onset is begin with peripheral arthritis, sometimes it is likely to confuse juvenile AS with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. To distinguish these two diseases, we need to remember the following points.

1, AS more often attacks boy children, while RA more often attacks girl children.

2, most RA children patients don’t have the symptoms of enthesopathy.

3, many patients of AS have the family medical history of this disease, while RA children patients don’t.

These characteristics of juvenile ankylosing spondylitis help parents and doctors diagnose this disease early so that not to miss the best treatment opportunity. At the same time, children needs different consideration for the treatment, because the most treatment for adult AS has certain side-effects. Traditional Chinese medicine can be a good choice for children patients, because it has little side-effects and treat the disease from the root cause, which is better for patient’s future life. 

World NO.1 Professor for Treating Lupus

Lupus is a world wide refractory disease. Its treatment get much concern of world NO.1 professors of rheumatology. Many patients hope to get the treatment of world NO.1 professor for treating lupus so that they can get the best treatment effects. DR.Hou Liping of Beijing Hou Liping Rheumatoid Hospital has worked on this task for more than three decades.

Dr. Hou Liping is a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, who has begin the research and clinical practice on treatment of rheumatoid disease from 1980s. Dr. Hou was born in Pingyao Ancient City, Shanxi Province and obtained the PhD in Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Besides, Dr.Hou learned from Shi Guangji, the successor of imperial physician for treating rheumatoid disease. On the basis of traditional Chinese medicine recipes, Dr.Hou developed out the Hou’s therapy with decades of years research and practice.

In November,1987, Dr.Hou established Taiyuan Rheumatoid Hospital. She lead the coworkers to work on clinical research in difficult conditions. In those short years, she and her coworkers complete successively The Clinical Observation and Experiment Research of Kang Leifengshi Capsule on Treating Acute Rheumatoid Disease, Research of Mathematical Medicine Multiple Comparison for TCM Syndrome Classification, the Clinical Observation and Experiment Research of Up-right Therapy Treatment for Ankylosing Spondylitis and other tasks.

With more than 30 years’ efforts, Dr. Hou and Hou’s Therapy achieve great treatment effects on treating rheumatoid disease, including rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, gout, ankylosing spondylitis and so on. Now, there are already many Hou Liping Hospitals in China, and Dr.Hou is the president of Beijing Hou Liping Rheumatoid Hospital at present.

Just as she said, Hou’ Therapy is the effective treatment developed by her, her family and her team, while Hou’ Therapy does not belong to herself or themself only, it should belong to the world medicine and to the entire human.

In order to relieve more patient’s suffering, Dr.Hou hoped to make the Hou’s Therapy international at the beginning of her career. Recent years, Dr. Hou participate international research and communication more actively. In 1990, she was invited to Moscow for academic exchange, which is the beginning to go abroad of Hou’s Therapy. Later, Dr. Hou participate times of international meetings in Japan, Canada, America and so on. In 1999, Kang Leifengshi Capsule got the identification of FDA, and Tong Luo Zhitong Capsule achieved the Gold Award of leading international pharmaceutical excellent results.

For more information about the Dr.Hou, Hou’s Therapy and its detail treatment on Lupus, you can email to treatmentchina@gmail.com. Glad to hear from you.

Non-Surgical Treatment Methods for Avascular Necrosis

Avascular Necrosis is a type of most common refractory orthopedic diseases. Up to now, there is still no certain treatment can completely cure different types, different stages and different necrosis volume of avascular necrosis.

Making reasonable treatment schedule needs the comprehensive consideration of stages, necrosis volume, joint function and patient’s age and other factors. However, the most important is to know the primary cause of one patient’s condition. Avascular necrosis can be divided into traumatic and non-traumatic,
two types. The former type is mainly caused by femoral neck fracture, dislocation of hip joint and other trauma on hip, while the later type is mainly caused by application of corticosteroid medicines and excessive drinking. All of these factors lead to the stop or damage of blood supply, and then bone cells death and structural change of femoral head and functional loss.

Despite of the difficulty of its treatment, there are some treatment methods can help the patients reduce suffering of the symptoms, improve life quality and prevent from surgery and disability, which makes it is possible for patients of avascular necrosis to live a better life. There are three aspects helpful.

1, protective weight-bearing treatment. In order to reduce the collapse of femoral head, patients can adopt crutches, which can also relieve pain. But wheelchair is not advocated.

2,medication treatment, which is suitable for early stages (0、I、II). Patients can adopt some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to relieve pain under the direction of doctors. Alendronate Sodium can prevent from collapse of femoral head. Medicines for dilating vessels also have some treatment effects. For the hypercoagulable and hypofibrinolysis state, low molecular heparin and Chinese medicine can be adopted.

3, physical therapy, including external seismic wave, high-frequency electric field, high pressure oxygen, magnet therapy and so on. They have good effects on relieving pain and promoting bone repair.

Timely and proper non-surgical treatment can help patients control the progression of the disease. While the main propose of treatment is to recover or improve the blood supply, reduce the bone cell necrosis, repair the partly necrosed cells and prevent disability. If you need more information about
the treatment of Avascular Necrosis, you can email to treatmentchina@gmail.com.

Is Lupus Contagious

Lupus is an unfamiliar disease to many. When people catch this disease, some may have the doubt that whether Lupus is a contagious disease. The answer is, you’ll not get Lupus from another person, and you won’t pass this disease to anyone else.

 Although Lupus appears in the forms of symptoms such as skin rash, red spots on skin, spots or patches on legs, sores of mouth, nose and vagina, facial discoloration and hair loss, it can’t be passed through sexual or normal contact. People don’t need to worry about the contagiousness of the disease.

 So how do people get Lupus? One key point to learn is that Lupus is an autoimmune disease. People with this disease has an overactive immune system. Normally, the immune system protects our body by producing antibodies to attack foreign body. With Lupus, however, the immune system cann’t distinguish between the body’s own cells and that of foreign body. Consequently, the immune system wrongly produce antibodies that attack the body’s cells, causing damages to organs and tissues both internally and externally.

Presently, the treatment for Lupus starts from controlling the overactive immune system and relieving tissue damages and symptoms of the patients. Many medications, such as glucocorticoids, immunosuppressive medicines, are often prescribed based on the patients’ illness condition to treat the disease. Some newest techniques, such as plasma exchange and immunoadsorption, can remove the circulating harmful immune substances in blood artificially, relieve overall symptoms and organ damages.

 The above is about whether Lupus is contagious. Hope the information is of help for you. If people get Lupus, scientifically learning about this disease and timely receiving proper treatment are important. If you have other concerned question about Lupus, you may leave us a message in the form below, or consult us directly.