Good health of all of us is a valuable asset for the nation. It is a sign of a commanding personality. If you are healthy, you enjoy all the blessings of life. Your life becomes worth living. You enjoy everything of life to its fullest brim. There’s an old saying which reads: a healthy body has a healthy mind. If your body is sick, your mind is automatically sick; you are worried all the time. The prominent enemies of health are drinking, smoking, excessive tea-intake, eating too much and too often. The most common and dreaded attacks on health in the current era are upper back pain and arthritis. These pains are caused due to bad posture and overuse and lifting objects improperly.

Arthritis is technically called osteoarthritis. It is inevitable as people grow older. This is the problem in which there is stiffness of joints. It happens when cartilage caps of bone rub each other. As against arthritis, upper back pain can be caused when we sit for long periods of time at work in an incorrect posture. It can lead to serious conditions that could be responsible pain throughout the upper back.

Way and means for avoiding arthritis

• Avoid actions that may cause jerks in old age.
• Perform special exercises to help minimize pain at the affected area and also to strengthen the upper back muscles to prevent further bouts of pain.
• Physical therapy might also be considered to treat pain and help with stretching and strengthening the back.
• Anti-inflammatory medications should be applied.
• Warm up the affected area by passive agents. It would relieve you of the stiffness and pain.
• Try to control the weight of your body, as it causes undue stress on the joints. Regular yogic asana is a natural arthritis cure and can help remove it permanently.
• Body massage or physiotherapy treatment is also great arthritis relievers.

Symbolically saying mend all the holes at the budding stage, and the rest of the shirt will take care of itself. It will last long….so enjoy life to its fullest; take care of your health and lead a hygienic life.