What is this chronic condition that causes inflammation, swelling and distortion of the joints. Medically speaking,arthritis is a name that covers many inflammatory conditions of the joints and muscles, extremely painful symptoms that make moving, sitting and sleeping difficult, even impossible at times. Often as not, the only relief is from pain-killing drugs, steroids, etc. Sadly, these drugs lose their effect after a while and the patient is no better off. Although millions of dollars have been spent on clinical research into arthritic conditions, we seem to be no further forward in our quest to find a cure