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If you suffer from any kind of joint pain, then you know what a misery it is.\u00a0 Pills help, but you may not like taking them for fear of developing an addiction, or you might be worried about how they\u2019ll interact with some of the other medications you\u2019re on.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, there are many viable alternatives available that will help take the edge off of the pain you\u2019re experiencing.\u00a0 Here are a few to consider:<\/p>\n
Alternate Ice and Heat<\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019re just using ice, or just using heat, you\u2019re not getting the maximum benefit from it.\u00a0 By alternating ice and heat though, you\u2019ll find that your pain level will drop significantly.\u00a0 The trick here is to not use either for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n Start with ice and leave it in place for no more than fifteen minutes, then switch to heat.\u00a0 Then thirty minutes of neither and go back to ice.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be amazed at how well it works!\u00a0 It\u2019s also worth mentioning that you can get the same basic effect by alternating something like Icy Hot and Biofreeze on the area that\u2019s causing you pain. Although if you\u2019d rather not spend the money on these products, ice and heat are both easy to come by.<\/p>\n Capsaicin<\/strong><\/p>\n Capsaicin is the stuff in peppers that makes them hot.\u00a0 It can also be found in a number of pain relieving creams and ointments and is incredibly effective in terms of providing pain relief.\u00a0 In fact, a study conducted by Case Western Reserve University found that eight out of ten participants who suffered from arthritis had less pain after applying capsaicin-based ointment four times a day for two weeks, making it a great alternative (or addition) to pain medication.<\/p>\n Bulk Up On Omega3s<\/strong><\/p>\n Fish oil tablets are good for you for a variety of reasons, but many people aren\u2019t aware that Omega-3 fatty acids have anti-inflammatory properties.\u00a0 If you suffer from any kind of joint pain, taking 1000mg of fish oil every day will help ease the pain in your aching joints.<\/p>\n The bottom line is, there are options available besides pain pills.\u00a0 Experiment with these and mix and match as you prefer.\u00a0 Your joints will thank you.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you suffer from any kind of joint pain, then you know what a misery it is.\u00a0 Pills help, but you may not like taking them for fear of developing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}