Arthritis can hit a person without warning. Usually it happened to people in their fifties. One day they will be just fine, and the next a pain unlike anything words could do justice to rakes their joints and limbs. In some cases the pain is so great they are taken to the hospital via the emergency services. The pain can be so bad that it is impossible to move or stand on a their legs. Other times a persons hands will lock, in a fist and the person can not open it up. The knuckles on a persons hand can become deformed and become knotted.

The problem is that arthritis treatments are not the same for each person that efflicted with this nasty disease. One doctor might prescribe a strong pain killer, but that is just a short term fix because a person can not function in life while taken a pain killer. That and the fact that pain killers are very addictive. Another might suggest exercise, and one has to wonder how that could happen if the patient can not stand?

In the media we have all heard that the most popular drug Vioxx has been taken off the shelf. Leaving arthritis suffers searching for something that can replace this treatment and worried that they will have the complications now associated with the drug. There are cases proving the fact the long term users of vioxx have suffered heart failures and strokes as a result of the use.

Another popular drug on the market is mobicox , which is proving to be the replacement drug or vioxx. However will this drug, have long term side effects as well? Only time will tell and users of any drugs should keep an eye open for any studies being done on the drug they are using. One new treatment, for people that suffer from arthritis in their wrist, are arm braces. They are worn at night to bed, and have proven to relieve the pain that is found in the morning.