Charcot Joint (Neuropathic Arthropathy)

The joint is falling apart — and you cannot feel it. That is the disturbing thing about the Charcot joint: it deforms, swells, collapses from within, and the pain that would normally warn you does not come. The nerves supplying the joint have lost their sensitivity. The early-warning system has failed. And so the destruction continues — silently, unnoticed, until the joint loses its structure.

Medically, neuropathic arthropathy is the consequence of nerve damage. Pain conduction is interrupted, the joint loses its protective reflex, and is gradually ground down by normal loading. Seen psychosomatically, a deeper question arises: what is happening in your life that has led you to switch off your own warning system? What is so painful about your existence that you have stopped feeling yourself?

A joint that destroys itself without you noticing — that is not a coincidence, but an image.