I am currently working with olderly people that have different type of muscle/ Tissue Damage / Sciatica etc pains - many of them had been using Wikipedia reference-linkanti-inflammatory drugs or even corrective surgery previously. Of cause they are not your age group, but what I want to say is that all of thy have been advised alternative herb treatment and it gave good possitive results. Turn your thoughts more to natural remedies (like Nature Medic Arthritis Cream).