I love this theme. Probably because I worked as a physiotherapist for 17 years. He treated people with physical factors.
On the one hand, this thread has vague standard explanations the influence of weather on the joints. There isn't much of a difference in the weather.
On the other hand, rheumatologists themselves suggest trying either heat or cold in order to understand what exactly relieves joint pain.
July
Personally, I like two groups of patients the most. Some swear that their joints hurt only in July, while others claim that their joints hurt all year round, but they stop hurting only in July. Let's start with mine.
Who gets worse
I would say that these are young people without joint diseases. Maybe I was just lucky that I treated students for a long time. They are all alike and among them you can find interesting sores.
In short, they complain that on the hottest days their hands become swollen, and it becomes painful to squeeze their fingers. And at other times of the year there is nothing like that. The guys get scared and decide that they have arthritis. In fact, they just swelling of the hands from heat.
The fact is that some joints begin to malfunction due to edema. Well, like they have a shifted axis or fulcrum around which the movement takes place. Because of this, some parts of the joint experience increased stress, are slightly damaged and painful.
This topic has long been explored by rheumatologists for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Have you seen patients with rheumatoid arthritis, whose hands are deformed like flippers? Woe, bitter.
We have already discussed with you special devices for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, which help to hold objects with dislocated fingers. So that it doesn't hurt so much. These adaptations just expose the joints at the most favorable angle.
So when the fingers on the hands of patients with rheumatoid arthritis lose stability, then even a small additional edema can add pain to them.
Roughly the same story happens with healthy students. They are young, mobile, skinny, maybe with joint hypermobility. If their joints are not working properly, they can get sick. Simply due to the fact that the articular surfaces do not fit correctly. Usually nothing bad happens from this. The swelling will disappear, and the pain disappears without a trace. Very well.
Who gets better
My favorite. Who remembers, last year we discussed how ultraviolet light suppresses our immunity.
There was an unusual study on this topic in which it turned out that people who live in warm climates and receive a lot of ultraviolet radiation, for some reason, are less likely to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. Anti-inflammatory type.
I myself have seen how ultraviolet light from the irradiator affects sore knees, but I have only heard stories of patients about the sun and summer. They accidentally, sitting over the garden, scalded their lower back with ultraviolet light, and it stopped hurting.
In short, there are different miracles. And at this time in July, for someone, like on New Year's Eve, once a year, joints begin to hurt, and for someone, on the contrary, everything goes away.
Have you noticed such miracles?
