Whether it’s your knee, shoulder, hip, foot, or any joint, chiropractic care for pain and cartilage degeneration can be quite helpful. Chiropractic restores the normal biomechanics of the joint, and thus spares it from added wear and tear.

A second important component of care for arthritis is postural awareness to make sure you’re minimizing the stress on your joints from ordinary daily activities.

What else can you do to help yourself?

NSAID’s can give you short term pain relief, but they leave your cartilage in worse shape than before. And the same is true for steroid injections – they can ultimately lead to even more cartilage breakdown.  

Now I’ve become aware of a plant-based nutrition product with proven benefits for those with arthritis and cartilage degeneration. It combines extracts of boswellia with celery seed.

The research shows that people who take this product achieve significant pain reduction and functional improvement over a period of 15 to 90 days. Their blood markers for inflammation go down, and, even more impressively, the chemical indicators that show cartilage being rebuilt go up.

I can send you a link to my online nutritional supplier, Fullscript, where you can purchase the product directly. Or ask me more about the possible benefits.

Dr. Lavine has been an innovator in the use of movement and touch to promote health since 1981. He practices in New York City and Princeton, NJ.