Arthritis Treatment and Arthritis Relief

On a trip to my local chemist for a certain type of hair shampoo I was amazed at how many different types of creams and cures there are available to the average person to actually buy over the counter for Arthritis relief, which made me think that there are probably many more are available on prescription as well. Looking it up on the Internet there are millions of websites and some that tell you about the so called wonder drugs that Doctor’s can prescribe and on reading more it’s plain to see that like other medicines of this type some of them do have chronic side affects and do not actually cure the disease.

I guess at this point when a Doctor sees a patient who is suffering with Arthritis its so easy to write out a prescription so that the patient will have some form of pain relief that will help them to a somewhat normal life. But knowing how bad Arthritis pain can be is this truly enough and are we being fobbed off to simply get us out of the surgery so that the Doctor can then see the next patient so that his money keeps rolling in.

For those of you that have read different articles I have produced you will know that I think that in general the Medical profession does a great job and that some of the life saving operations that go on every day are a credit to their systems. Yet on reading different accounts from patients that are currently taking Arthritis treatments from their Doctor’s it does make me think that perhaps not enough is being done. At this point I do know that money tends to rule most businesses and I’m sure that the major drug companies plough incredible amounts of money into research and without it many of these life saving operations would not go ahead.

Perhaps I may be wrong here and how I always look for the easy way out and perhaps that alternative cures are that easy way out yet when you read of people being cured in the comfort of their own homes so why do the Doctor’s not use this option to get their credibility up even higher?