What Can Treat Ankylosin Spondolitis So That More Than Symptoms Are Addressed?
Question by Kempie: What can treat ankylosin spondolitis so that more than symptoms are addressed?
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Ankylosing spondylitis is a form of arthritis that is long-lasting (chronic) and most often affects the spine. Although there is no cure, treatment can usually control symptoms and prevent the condition from getting worse.
If you have been diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, there are steps that you can take at home to help reduce pain and stiffness and allow you to continue daily activities. These steps include:
Educating yourself. Learn all you can about your condition and know what complications to watch for. This will help you control your symptoms and stay more active.
Reducing pain by taking pain relievers such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or using heat to decrease your pain and stiffness. Warm showers or baths or sleeping under a warm electric blanket may reduce stiffness.
Exercising regularly. This reduces pain and stiffness and helps maintain fitness and mobility of the spine, chest, and joints. Your doctor may recommend physical therapy to get you started on an exercise program.
Deep breathing exercises can improve or maintain lung capacity.
Swimming as part of your exercise program helps to maintain chest expansion and movement of the spine without jarring the spine. Breast stroke is especially good for chest expansion.
You should avoid contact sports, since joint fusion may make your spine more likely to fracture as the disease progresses, but your doctor may approve of other activities such as golf and tennis. Check with your doctor before you add any new activity.
Maintaining proper posture and chest expansion. Good posture is important because it can help prevent abnormal bending of the spine.
Maintaining chest expansion will help prevent problems such as lung infection (pneumonia). It’s a good idea to lie on your stomach a few times each day to keep your spine and hips extended.
For sleeping, choose a firm mattress and a small pillow that supports your neck.
Avoiding smoking, to prevent serious breathing difficulties and lung scarring. Lung damage from smoking, combined with decreased chest expansion and the lung infections that sometimes go with ankylosing spondylitis, can seriously limit your ability to breathe freely.
Having regular eye exams by an ophthalmologist, to check for inflammation of the colored part of the eye (iritis).
Joining a support group. For more information, call the Spondylitis Association of America at 1-800-777-8189, or visit their Web site at http://www.spondylitis.org.
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