Healthy Life Journal

Can NOT be denied that the activities of Indonesian society that increasingly dense causing various health problems, including arthritis pain. But unfortunately in line with the increasing number of arthritis sufferers in Indonesia, precisely the awareness and misunderstanding about this disease remains high.

Reading these phenomena, PT Pfizer Indonesia, as a producer of quality medicine, calls on people of Indonesia to identify, prevent, and cope with pain from arthritis by conducting joint exercises as a method recommended by your doctor. Introduction gymnastics officially rheumatic conducted in Jakarta today as the celebration of eight years of the existence of celecoxib in Indonesia.

In general, the definition of arthritis is a disease that attacks the joints and supporting structures or tissue around the joints. Attacked body part is usually in the joints in the fingers, knees, hips, and spine.

These conditions, among other things due to excessive activity or repeated trauma experienced by the joints, causing cartilage wear on the joints (cartilage) which becomes a cushion for the bones and cause pain if the joint is moved. Arthritis can lead to disability (morbidity), disability (disability), decreased quality of life, and increase the economic burden the patient or his family.

Based on the latest research results from qy Zeng et al 2008, the prevalence of rheumatic pain in Indonesia reached 23.6 percent to 31.3 percent. This figure shows that the pain from arthritis is quite disturbing activities of the Indonesian people, especially those who have very dense activity in urban areas such as driving a vehicle in the middle of the flow of traffic, sitting for hours with no significant body movement, demand for interesting and vibrant , lack of exercise portion, and the age factor.

Plus still many people’s view that Indonesia underestimate this disease because it is as if the soul does not pose a threat, but the pain caused by this disease became a disturbing obstacle for urban communities to conduct their activities daily.

Dr. Irawan Rustandi, Medical Director of PT Pfizer Indonesia, explained, “We feel it’s time for the Indonesian people to know more deeply about rheumatic diseases, who can stricken with rheumatism and how to best handle. As such, they are more aware of the consequences of This disease that voluntarily join the socialized knowledge to their family members to avoid arthritis. ”

Departure from rheumatism and concern for the facts above, Pfizer worked with medical and rehabilitation specialists are supported by a professional instructor to create a method of exercise that can help reduce the risk of arthritis that also functions as an additional therapy for patients with rheumatism in the quiet phase.

“Gymnastics is an exercise rheumatic gesture or a gentle exercise program that consists of several stages such as heating, single core exercises (low impact to strengthen the work of the heart and lungs), two core training (basic training and the prevention of rheumatic therapy), and cooling , “he said.

By doing this exercise regularly and correctly, arthritis sufferers are expected to be free from the symptoms of rheumatic disease and painful joint stiffness. In addition, Pfizer also suggested that this exercise coupled with consultation with your doctor to get maximum results and avoid the things that are not desirable.

“In addition to methods of treatment through exercise, a pharmacological, pain due to arthritis can also be overcome with a group of anti-inflammatory drugs non-steroidal non-specific (non-specific non-steroidal anti-inflammatory or ns-NSAIDs). However, this drug class was can cause gastrointestinal complaints at the top that can disturb and harm the patient, “he explained.

Explained Dr. Rustandi Irawan, arthritis drug celecoxib is COX-COXIBX group 2 (specific inhibitors, or inhibitors of COX-2) production of PT Pfizer Indonesia capable of specifically inhibiting COX-2 enzyme associated with pain and inflammation, so much safer to the stomach compared with anti-rheumatic drugs pain ns-NSAIDs.

“Celecoxib has also been believed to eight years in Indonesia as a drug to overcome the problems with arthritis in terms of safety profile upper gastrointestinal (upper GI) is better than the drug class ns-NSAIDs, and cardiovascular safety in terms comparable to ns – NSAIDs because it was to overcome the pain due to arthritis holistic, people are advised to continue to consult with the doctor, “he said.