If you suffer from joint pain, you've probably noticed how changes in the weather can make your symptoms worse. For many, the arrival of cold or damp weather brings on increased stiffness, discomfort, and inflammation in their joints. Whether it's the knees, hips, or shoulders, weather-related joint pain can be frustrating and hard to manage.
But what causes this connection between weather and joint pain? More importantly, what can be done about it? One emerging solution is Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) therapy, which offers a non-invasive, drug-free way to reduce inflammation, improve flexibility, and ease pain during weather shifts.
In this blog, we'll explore how weather impacts joint pain and how PEMF therapy can provide relief.
Why Does Weather Impact Joint Pain?
Almost everyone with joint diseases including arthritis or prior injuries to the joints feel that their pains are usually increase during weather changes. While it is still unclear as to why this link exists, there are several proposed hypotheses that could predict why joints might feel more rigid, or become painful during particular periods of weather.
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Barometric Pressure: Fluctuations in this type of pressure, that being the pressure in the atmosphere, can on their own alter the pressure in the tissues around the joints. When pressure decreases as it does before cold and wet season, the tissues are likely to swell up and cause stiffness and pain to affected joints which are normally inflamed or sensitive.
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Cold Temperatures: Muscles, tendons and ligaments become rigid due to cold well-known impact of cold climate on the muscles and joints. This added stiffness of the joints makes it hard for the people with joint pain to move around hence increasing the level of pain when it is cold.
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Humidity and Dampness: It is also generally associated with high joint pain that is caused by humidity and dampness. There are some reports that especially moist climate affects joint inflammation and in turn increases the degree of pain and stiffness.
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Reduced Activity: It becomes hard for people to leave their homes looking for work or engage in other activities hence, result in a healthy producing more energy. But, it is important to move to avoid joint rigid or frozen up. Restricted mobility during cold or rainy days leads to new discomfort and worsens former joint pains, thus forming a vicious circle.
PEMF Therapy: A Two-Part Solution to This Weather Related Joint Pain
Although one cannot control the weather, one can control weather that accompanies joint pain. PEMF therapy is getting widely used as an effective method to decrease joint inflammation and hardness particularly if one experiences pain and stiff in movements because of the change of the weather.
PEMF therapy employs low-frequency electromagnetic currents to elicit activity in the cells of your body. This is non invasive procedure that aids in enhancing blood flow, relieving inflammation and facilitate healing of wounded tissues. Some of the most common areas that the individuals have found effective in addressing joint pain include; the knee, hip or the shoulder areas which if treated with PEMF, many people find the pain relieved especially during the cold or damp weather.
How does PEMF Therapy Help to Reduce Joint Pain?
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Reduces Inflammation: Inflammation is common in most cases of joint pain especially in conditions such as arthritis that require the inflamed tissue to cushion part of the joint. PEMF therapy in the end, affect the cells, making circulation better and reducing swelling and inflammation. This can result into reduced pain and better mobility even during this unfriendly weather.
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Improves Flexibility: This is especially the case if you are having a chronic disease affecting the muscles, joints and skin, for cold and damp are likely to make your joints tighten and become difficult to mobilize. Stimulating blood flow as well as the repair process that is within PEMF treatment is essential in ensuring that the joints are flexible, and the stiffness that is occasioned by cold weather is eliminated. This also lets you to have the free running of your joints so as to allow you to have an easier time when moving around even if the weather is not friendly.
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Boosts Circulation: Proper circulation is needed in order to decrease pain and improve joint functioning. It is also noted that PEMF therapy enhances blood circulation in the affected areas where oxygen as well as other nutrients are delivered to the influenced tissues. This enhances circulation allowing the body repair damaged tissues and might lead to permanent relieve of pains arising from joints.
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Aids Strengthening of Joints:
PEMF therapy may have wide-ranging benefits for the longevity of body joints because its regular use aids in cartilage, ligament and tendon regeneration. Because of this, PEMF therapy alleviates ordinary joint pains from the escalating through time due to uptake of inflammation and replenishing of the body’s natural healing processes, regardless of the changes in weather conditions.
Real-Life Relief: How PEMF Therapy Benefited from Weather-Related Joint Pain
Anne’s Story
There is a case of a 65 year old woman Anne from the Midwest who had arthritic knee problems for more than ten years. She developed joint pain every time it started becoming cold in the fall season and rains began. “I once despised when winter was around the corner,” she professed. “Sometimes I managed to get out of bed, but my knees were too swollen and sore to get around and I felt like there was nothing I could do about it.”
Having heard of PEMF therapy from her friend, Anne agreed to take the treatment. She thus began using a PEMF Mat on knees and the process only took thirty minutes. She told them, “The change was incredible,” I saw that the knee pain had reduced, even on such a cold day outside. It was more like this – the pain never did fully disappear, but the kid could at least tolerably put up with it now.”
Mike’s Experience
Mike, a construction worker, who is 55 years old, was suffering from hip pain due to an injury of this nature that he had earlier received. “I knew that when I felt fresh pain in my hip, a storm was brewing,” Mike added. “They found that ‘It got worse when the weather was humid.’”
Mike began applying PEMF therapy to his hip with preference to rainy weather as a predictor of arthritis pain days. “It made a huge difference he says.” “It is not all still painful but yes the pain now is of a different kind.” I can still drive my car, walk around the house and even climb the stairs without managing hip pain that can make me feel as if my joint will fail me.
How to use PEMF therapy for weather related joint pain
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Target Problem Areas
Target areas that seem most sensitive to changes in the weather, for instance, the knee, hip, shoulder joints or the lower back. These areas can be treated using PEMF therapy hence minimizing the occurrence of stiffness and pain.
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Use PEMF Regularly
Ideally, try to use PEMF therapy often and especially when the weather in your area makes your joint pain worse. Some individuals seek to get some comfort from using PEMF therapy for twenty to thirty minutes on the targeted areas.
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Combine with Movement
One has to overcome the urge of keeping off a known painful area especially when one suffers from joint pains hence, movement does not cause any harm but is rather beneficial for the joints. Thus, walking or stretching exercises might be helpful to be done in parallel with PEMF therapy in order to avoid joint stiffness.
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Stay Warm
Next to the application of PEMF therapy, to easing joint stiffness in cooler temperatures, warmer joint treatments should be done. Applying additional clothing, or using heating pads also helps increase the effects of PEMF treatment.
Conclusion: How to Soothe Joint Pain Using PEMF Therapy As A Result Of Weather Fluctuations
If you are one of those people, who notice a shift in the level of joint pain depending on the weather, PEMF therapy might be the answer you’ve been seeking. PEMF therapy helps with inflammation, circulation, and flexibility of the joints, so it can be used to treat pain during cold or damp weather.
Never allow the weather to determine your moods. While using PEMF therapy, you do not have to sit around waiting for the change in weather to stop hurting in order to move around.
Sources:
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Journal of Inflammation Research: "The Effects of Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields on Arthritis and Joint Inflammation"
This study explores how PEMF therapy helps reduce joint inflammation and improve mobility, particularly in individuals with arthritis.
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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): "PEMF Therapy for Chronic Pain and Inflammation"
This article discusses the benefits of PEMF therapy for reducing chronic pain and inflammation, including joint pain associated with weather changes.
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The PEMF Therapy Institute: Research and Testimonials
A collection of case studies and testimonials from people who have used PEMF therapy to manage joint pain and improve their quality of life.