Dr Gala has served as a lecturer in visual sciences at the prestigious College of Optometry, Municipal Eye Hospital, Mumbai. He has extensively travelled the length and breadth of India (as well as numerous other countries) to deliver lectures on various alternative therapies. His ten programmes on Acupressure and four programmes on Homoeopathy have appeared on the national television.
Dr Gala is also a proficient author. With the express objective of creating an awareness about health among the masses and inspiring people to practise preventive medicine, he has written more than twenty books on health-related topics, one of which is, presently, in your hands. The co-author of this book, Dr Dhanlal Gala, is a renowned Naturopathic Physician.
A vast, almost ocean-like, body of information about arthritis is available on the internet. Due to a lack of medical background, it would be difficult for a layman to swim through this ocean of information and reach the shores of rational treatment. Moreover, the information found on the internet is, often, unproven and unreliable. It would be almost impossible for the gullible to distinguish real from rubbish, fact from fallacy, hope from hype.
Medical doctors are, without doubt, reliable sources of information. However, they neither have the time nor the inclination to educate their patients. They are impatient with their patients! More often than not, they forecast gloom for their patients of arthritis.
The objectives of this book, then, are:
1. to present authentic information about arthritis to you in a simplified form,
2. to free you from your fears and anxieties about your arthritis; imaginations can create scenarios that are worse than realities could ever be,
3. to spread optimism and to reassure you that you are not doomed to lifelong misery and
4. to pass on such information which has been deliberately kept hidden from you by vested interests.
The need of the times is to demystify medicine.
This book will tell you :
1. how to prevent joint problems, especially if you have a family history of arthritis,
2. how to overcome / tackle a joint problem if you already have one and
3. how to effectively cope with it (and lead an active, productive life) if you have a serious or an incurable form.
Painkilling pills and ointments top the list of non-prescription medicines advertised on the TV. Prescribed as well as over the counter (OTC) medicines worth millions of rupees are purchased every year by victims of arthritis, much to the delight of the pharmaceutical industry.
Arthritis is, perhaps, the most ancient of all diseases. Adam and Eve had it, early cavemen suffered from it and so did dinosaurs, as evident from fossilized bones. There is solid evidence to show that arthritis has affected every animal having bones and joints.
The word Arthritis comes from Greek arthron meaning joint and Latinitis meaning inflammation. In turn, the word inflammation has been derived from flame. Any organ or body-part that is inflammed appears to be on fire: it looks red and swollen; it feels hot and painful. In arthritis, the affected joint(s) seem(s) to be on fire.
Arthritis strikes people of all ages, of all ethnic backgrounds and across geographic locations. Though it affects both sexes, women are at a greater (2: 1) risk.
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