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Depending in which study and survey you want to believe, the number of weather-affected rheumatics range from 70% to 90%. One thing is clear, however, weather doesn’t cause rheumatism and doesn’t damage joints – it affects the severity of rheumatic pain.
Weather sensitive patients report more pain on damp and cold days with rapidly falling barometric pressure. In addition, thunderstorm activity and the ionization of the air show some effect. Depending on the type of disorder, some people predict well in advance the coming of a weather front, others ‘feel’ a nearby thunderstorm and some rely on their joints to forecast rainfall. As with headache and migraine sufferers, the weather change takes the blame. Once the weather stabilizes the symptoms will too.
Rheumatism
The link between weather and rheumatic pain
What is in the book?
Chapter:
Weather Sensitivity
What is weather sensitivity?
Headaches and migraines
Headaches
Migraines
Weather triggers
Treatment
Rheumatism
Weather and rheumatism
Treatment
Electromagnetic influences
Sferics
Ions
Ill winds
Seasonal health
Several theories exist on the mechanisms of weather sensitivity and rheumatism. One explains that the increased pain is due to the irritation of nerve ends from frequent and rapid changes in weather elements. Also, bones and muscles have different densities, and the unequal expansion and contraction during temperature and humidity variations may increase the pain in inflamed or injured joints and muscles.
Another plausible cause is the rapid change in barometric pressure before and during the passage of a weather front. Membranes and fluids in the joints expand when the outside barometric pressure drops.