Joint pain a spiral of ever worsening consequences

Alls well and good taking the "chemicals" point of view but from a sufferers perspective, a viscous cycle of ever hardening joint pain can set in. For those people who have already suffered a lot of the disease, what is below will be self-evident. Even more importantly, for those that are showing minor signs of the early stages of the cycle below, there should be a strong urgency to break the cycle, before it strongly sets in.

1. In every joint, there are naturally destructive and naturally healing processes going on.
2. In healthy joints destructive and healing processes are in balance
3. Sometimes, the immune led destructive processes become predominant. This may happen as a result of injury or trauma, or triggered by the presence of cartilage debri or other foreign substance in the joint. However, sometimes the immune system over does it and instead of clearing up the affected area, fresh and healthy tissues also get attacked resulting in rapid degeneration of the joint 
4. The joint recovers when immune led healing processes overcome this momentum
5. Some researchers believe that once the joint cells are traumatised, they develop a memory sensitivity, and the next time there is an event, they overdo the clean up even more. This is what is behind arthritis setting in, in (young) sports people, who following an injury, continue to use (abuse) the joint, by carrying on stressing it
6. Part of the immune response is inflammation. When there is continuous triggering, this can become chronic
7. Inflammation and pain go hand in hand
8. Pain leads to inactivity and inactivity to muscle wastage
9. Which leads to even more pain when the joint is attempted to be used, as the wasted muscles spasm easily
10. Inactivity of the joint has another conse-quence. Nutrition to the cartilage is further res- tricted, as it is physi-cally moving the joint that promotes supply to that locality
11. And the cycle of pain/inflammation/muscle wastage/more pain/reduced nutrition continues weakening the healing process even more and making the impact of the destruction stronger.

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