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Understanding Arthritis

Let’s take the mystery out of arthritis. Too often, we treat arthritis as an ailment independent of other causes, like the food we consume and how we use or don’t use our joints. This is why we often end up treating the symptom rather than the root cause. For any lasting solution, we must address the source of the problem where it can be corrected. When we do this, amazing things start to happen. We could even call it the miracle mindset.

There are two kinds of arthritis: rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA). Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes joint inflammation. While Avita can be beneficial in alleviating symptoms of RA, we will focus on OA because its cause can be effectively identified.

Osteoarthritis occurs when toxins accumulate in the synovial fluid, causing the cartilage that cushions the bones to deteriorate. Cartilage doesn’t necessarily wear away, and it’s not always a matter of overuse or repetitive movements. A buildup of toxins creates a degenerative environment that inhibits the remodeling process, leading to joint pain, stiffness, and swelling. OA most commonly affects weight-bearing joints, such as the knees, hips, and spine, but not simply because they bear weight. It results from a lack of full, passive, and active use, which generates the cleansing pressure these joints need.

Compensation patterns resulting in asymmetrical contact on the articulating joint surfaces are a major contributor. This, combined with the fear of working through pain and introducing thoughtful cleansing and compression, leads many down the path to osteoarthritis, weakness, and degeneration.

There are 110 different types of arthritis, each with a unique variation on the cause. Here, we focus on the solution. Genetics, aging, and lifestyle are often the usual—and innocent—suspects. But rather than assigning blame, it is far more helpful to take gentle responsibility. This always includes a healthy dose of forgiveness, which brings us into the healing power of the present moment, where corrective action can occur.

Disclaimer: If you have pain or swelling in a joint, it is essential to see a doctor to get a diagnosis and treatment. Treatment for synovial fluid conditions may include medication, physical therapy, or surgery. A Rheumatologist can use lab results to help determine the type of arthritis you have.

Avita Can Bring Healing to Arthritis

While Avita can help manage the painful symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, it can bring remarkable results to osteoarthritis patients. Why? Because it unwinds compensation patterns, cleanses the synovial fluid, and remodels the articular surfaces. Avita can be part of any strategy for managing symptoms that affect joints and emotional health. As always, the sooner we catch it, the better. We use the shapes to find imbalances and apply mending pressure, which stimulates the healing characteristics of the underlying physiology.

Every metabolic process in the body uses energy to create new building blocks—each cell contains its own energy-creating power plant. And, anytime energy is produced, toxic by-products are made. The body utilizes a complex process of circulation and elimination to move toxins out of the cells and tissues through solids, fluids, and gases and eventually to the outside world. The body is like a factory with various customized manufacturing rooms. Each room has its specialty and uses raw materials to make building blocks, but it all creates waste by-products. If toxins accumulate inside the building, the environment degrades, and the workers get sick.

It’s the same in the body. Within each synovial joint, cartilage and bone undergo constant metabolic change and thus generate toxic by-products, which are released into the synovial fluid. If not cleansed and renewed, it becomes “dirty bathwater” and, in time, can lead to arthritis, disease, and degeneration. Even in a perfectly healthy body, the toxic by-products of cartilage and bone remodeling must be handled, or the fluid clarity and function will be compromised. Would you ask for better working conditions if you worked in a dingy, unkempt factory?

Blood and lymph pass through tiny, one-cell-thick vessels and capillaries. However, small vessels like this would get crushed inside a joint, so nature must find another way. How is fluid cleansed and renewed within a synovial joint?

The short answer is pressure. Steady, consistent, welcoming pressure is cleansing, and animals in nature have been doing it for a very long time. When you make a strong fist, the force generated on your knuckles by muscle contraction pushes the fluid through the cell membrane into the intercellular matrix outside the joint. Try it and observe your fingers along with the sensation. Can you hold it for a while? When you release, can you rest and avoid “shaking it out?” That’s Avita Yoga.

These are synovial joints, appropriately named for the synovial membrane that encapsulates the joint and retains the synovial fluid within. The synovial membrane contains cells called macrophages, which are white blood cells that help to remove waste products from the synovial fluid.

The process is called micro-circulation, the movement of fluid through the smallest vessels known as capillaries. The capillaries in the synovial membrane are one cell thick, which allows for the exchange of nutrients and waste products between the synovial fluid and the blood. But how does this occur? There’s no special pump. The system relies on movement and pressure differential in and around the joint.

The lymphatic vessels around the joint capsule transport the fluid to lymph nodes and the spleen, where it is cleansed before being dumped back into the bloodstream near the heart. Unlike the vascular system, the lymphatic system has no pump; it relies on movement and pressure differentials to move it in the right direction. Otherwise, it becomes stagnant, which results in swelling and inflammation. In Avita, we target the lymphatic system as much as anything else to get the fluids moving, which promotes health and boosts immunity. It’s one reason we do so much work at the wall. Unlike headstands and handstands, legs up the wall is a doable shape for most people and can be sustained long enough to get results.

Age, injury, infection, and various diseases can impact our ability to cleanse and restore the joints, but let us be slow to blame and quick to take gentle responsibility for our health and state of mind. The composition of synovial fluid alters during an individual’s lifetime due to changes in mechanical loading and joint degradative diseases. But which comes first over a lifetime? The lack of adequate use and pressure, or slow motion degradation? The answer is not necessary because the solution is the same. Why not add consistent pressure to your bones and joints and see what happens?