The word "Ama" literally means undigested or toxic product resulting
as a consequence of impaired digestion due to vitiated doshas causing
Amavata.
World Health Organization (WHO) has defined, rheumatism is a general term for diseases affecting the locomotive organs.
Rheumatism
is an older 'layman term' used to refer different disorders affecting
locomotive system: joints, muscles, tendons and soft tissues, and even
the internal organs. They are common having vast impact on the health of
population worldwide. The term Rheumatic diseases presents painful
conditions caused by inflammation of muscles, tendons, joints and
connective tissues. Involvement of weight-bearing joints – hips and
knees lead to serious condition. In essence, it means a chronic
inflammation of joints and it causes much discomfort to those suffering
from it. Mostly rheumatic disorders are autoimmune.
It starts with
the degeneration of joint's cartilage causing softening and reduction
of the cartilage. The joint overheats, gets inflamed, and swells.
CLASSIFICATION
Rheumatic conditions may be classified as:
- Localized (limited to a specific site, as bursitis and tendonitis)
- Regional (larger area is involved , as chest wall pain)
- Generalized (affecting various and diverse parts of the body, as in fibromyalgia).
SYMPTOMS
- Symptoms includes the musculoskeletal system; some may feature immune system abnormalities.
- Unpleasant pain in various body parts, particularly in the fingers,
toes or wrists which may get intensified and limit the flexibility and
the functioning of the joint that is joints become stiff.
- Leads to permanent damage and disfiguring of the joints
- Swollen and inflamed joints.
- Fatigue and Fever.
- Loss of Appetite.
- Medical problems affecting the heart, bones, joints, kidney, skin and lungs.
RHEUMATIC DISEASE CAN BE DISTINGUISH BETWEEN
- Arthrosis: A joint cartilage disease results due to improper or excessive burdening.
- Osteoporosis: Loss of bone matter causing the skeleton to lose its stability and risk of fractures increases.
- Fibromyalgia: A distinctive form of rheumatism. It
is caused due to hardening of the muscles, manifested by continuous
pain in the muscles and tendons, and an increased sensitivity to
pressure.
- Rheumatic arthritis: Pain is felt in joints of fingers and hands, along with stiff joints and deformities.
- Morbus Bechterew: A chronic inflammation of
joints, in specific area of the spine. The chief symptom is a deep and
chronic inflammatory backache and spine may get stiff.
- Gout: A metabolic disease,that occurs due to high
concentration of uric acid in the body, resulting in joint inflammation
which may be hereditary or caused by an improper diet.
CAUSES
- The primary causes of rheumatism is
considered that acidic food and salts consumed get saturated in the body
resulting in inflammation of the tissues between the joints and this
inflammation decreases the ability of the joints to move freely and
leads to great amounts of pain when trying to do so.
- Some rheumatic disorders are caused by crystals, such as uric acid crystals or gout.
- Genetic predisposition can be the reason.
- Smoking enhances the disease.
- Aggravated by exposure to cold weather.
Ayurvedic View that toxic matter get stagnated in joints and
other body parts which is poorly digested and eliminated out of the body
causing rheumatism.
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Even if we have the best of intentions, the goals we set to get
healthy (after this last slice of pizza, of course) sometimes fall by
the wayside. It can be hard to stay motivated, or even properly
informed, since the recommendations for what to eat and how long to
exercise can be
confusing and conflicting. (Fat, for example, was off the menu for years under official guidance that eating fat
makes you fat, and now that advice is getting
kicked to the curb.)
As a result, truly healthy behaviors can have a hard time cutting
through the noise. Despite everything we know about the health benefits
of exercise, a
recent study found that 43% of employed adults do not exercise often.
Yet getting healthier is still a worthy goal, and many experts in the
fields of exercise, health and nutrition have clear ideas about how to
get there. Here are some low-stress, bare-minimum ways to become a
healthier person, even for those of us who love to eat and hit snooze.
How to eat
Eating healthy shouldn’t be a nutrient numbers game. And no: you don’t have to go vegan or adopt a Paleo diet.
Just make sure your plate contains more than two different colors, says
Simin Nikbin Meydani, director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition
Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. “If it’s not, it’s boring,
and you won’t meet your nutrient requirements,” she says. “If it’s
green and red and brown, you can.”
After coloring your plate, make sure to consume it—and enjoy it—with
someone else. “Sharing a meal with friends and family impacts our health
and how we age and fare as we get older,” Meydani says.
Some countries, like Brazil, follow just that advice. Their government recommends eating whole foods, avoiding processed ones and dining with other people.
How to exercise
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends
that American adults do two hours and 30 minutes of moderate-intensity
aerobic activity each week, plus some muscle-strengthening on the side.
Many people don’t do any of that. A 2015
study published in the
The BMJ
argued that older adults, especially, find it hard to meet that
government advice. “Getting inactive people to do a little bit of
physical activity, even if they don’t meet the recommendations, might
provide greater population health gains,” wrote study author Philipe de
Souto Barreto, a researcher at University Hospital of Toulouse, in the
paper.
Yet new evidence suggests they don’t need to. Barreto points out that
a study of more than 250,000 older adults found that getting less than
an hour of moderate physical activity each week was linked to a 15% drop
in death, which means that people do benefit from even a small amount
of exercise. Studies have also shown significant health benefits from
simple exercises like walking.
Some researchers are seeing how low people can go when it comes to time spent working out. Enter the one-minute workout,
where you work out as hard as possible for 60 seconds, with some
warm-up and cool-down exercises thrown in, too. Even though the time
spent exercising is minimal, it’s meant to be hard, and is
shown to improve health and fitness.
“There might be time-efficient ways to get fit,” says Martin Gibala,
chair of kinesiology at McMaster University in Canada. “The notion of
meeting people in the middle is positive—but there’s no free lunch.”
The takeaway
Stressing out over meeting government numbers—whether for nutrient
values of the number of exercise minutes—may not be worth the headache.
Getting some exercise every week and eating colorful meals with friends
can be an enjoyable way to live a healthier life. Doing
something, it seems, is what’s important.
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