Advanced Silver Solution

Back in December 08, I wrote about joint problems and how glucosamine can help to ease pain and repair cartilage damage.  Whilst Glucosamine is certainly effective, I would also recommend that you visit a good osteopath or chiropractor.  If your joints are being damaged by some structural problem with bone alignment, then you will constantly be undoing any good done by the glucosamine.

As a young man of about 20, I was getting a lot of swelling around my knee when I went to my karate training.  There was so much fluid that it dropped from my knee to my ankle and my ankle had become literally twice the size.  I went to the doctor who could find nothing wrong with the knee and told me to rest it (no karate training).  So I rested it, swelling went down . . . . trained, swelling came back . . . . rested it longer, swelling went down . . . . trained, swelling came back up . . . . back to the doctor.

The doctor re-examined my knee, found nothing wrong again and told me to rest it for longer.  So I rested it longer, swelling went down . . . . trained swelling came back . . . . etc etc . . . . back to the doctor.  He still couldn’t find anything wrong and this time sent me to the hospital to have it X-rayed.  The X-ray showed nothing, and guess what I was told . . . . yes you guessed it . . . . rest it.

So eventually I went to an osteopath.  He concluded that my hip was slightly out and this was effecting my knee.  He clicked the hip back into place, told my I could train but to ease myself back into it and I had no more knee problems for years.  One visit to the osteopath sorted what 3 months of doctors and hospitals had failed to do.  The doctor and hospital did not even look at my hips.

More recently having another bout of knee problems I went to a chiropractor.  After a few clicks on the spine, he told me that my arches in my feet had dropped (which apparently is common as you get older).  This had led to my feet compensating by distorting slightly, which in turn had effected my knees and even my spine.

So whilst products like glucosamine and cod liver oil can be good for joints, it is well worth getting the structure of you body checked first or you could be wasting your money.