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Early signs of muscles, cartilage
and joints degeneration
• Sense of stiffness around the neck and back in the
morning, goes off gradually once you started moving.
• Clicking joints e.g. shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers,
hips, knees and ankles.
• Increasing frequency of muscle ache, till a point you
need to apply medicated plaster, heat rub or seek
medical treatment.
• Degeneration is silent and gradual, but it hastens during
the middle age and post menopause.
