TREATMENT OF OSTEOARTHRITIS

TREATMENT OF OSTEOARTHRITIS;
Treatment for Osteoarthritis can be divided into four components: Treatment for the
(1) pain,
(2) defective skeletal structure,
(3) faulty nutrition,
(4) hormonal imbalances.
As treatment for faulty nutrition and hormonal imbalances have already been mentioned, and as they both require individualized attention by holistically minded physicians, we shall further discuss only treatment for pain and defective skeletal structure, with the exception of repeated emphasis of the use of niacinamide as per William Kaufman's Ph.D. M.D. early and lengthy research work89, 90, 91.
Pain
Professor Roger Wyburn-Mason M.D, Ph.D. more than thirty years ago was able to demonstrate that the source of pain in both Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Disease is not in the joints — where most modern-day treatment lies — but in certain key nerve ganglia leading to the joint. These nerve ganglia are found in uninsulated nerves usually lying close to the skin’s surface, known as "C fibers."
Intra-neural Injections
Using Roger Wyburn-Mason's theory, Dr. Paul Pybus7 found that a combination of Depot Medrol with a very dilute solution of Triamcinolone Hexacetonide (LederspanR or AristospanR) not only immediately halted the pain appearing in remote joints, but also permitted the nerve cell lesions to heal, probably by stabilizing nerve cell membranes. Pybus stated that these nerve lesions triggered off two signals, one set following the nerve path to the brain, the other following
a reflex arc to the spinal column and back. The signal to the brain came back to represent pain at the joint. The reflex signal to the spinal column came back to the joint to produce the following
easily recognizable phenomena: heated joints (pyrexia), swollen joints (edema) and tension or clamping of muscles at the joints. It is the tension or clamping of muscles at the joints which creates degeneration of cartilage at the joint which results in the pain of Osteoarthritis (or the pain of Rheumatoid Arthritis), and this was explained by Pybus by knowledge of Charnley clamps used on knee joints which, while producing a forcible compression of joints, also resulted in destruction of cartilage in the joints.

Acupuncture:

Most of the traditional acupuncture points are exactly the same as the trigger or key nerve ganglia used in Intra-neural Injections, and the physics of explanation is identical for both, as the developer of Intra-neural Injections, Dr. Paul Pybus, was first an acupuncturist and surgeon. He said, "Acupuncture . . . shows no great permanency in the relief afforded just by one treatment, as when the needle is removed the membrane is still destabilized and the condition reverts
to the status quo ante." This seems to be confirmed by the experience of Arabinda Das, M.D. who says, "acupuncture may help localized pain of rheumatoid arthritis but chronic generalized rheumatoid arthritis is not amenable to acupuncture as [is true with] many chronic infectious conditions79." When Pybus combined acupuncture with a substance that stabilized the nerve cell membrane, he began to see long-term improvement in both Osteoarthritis and the pain of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Undoubtedly others who were familiar with Acupuncture discovered this same phenomenon, as there is now practised "Pharamaceutical Acupuncture." In addition to good effects on pain, Acupuncture is said to strengthen the immune system69.