Top summer tips for managing your arthritis naturally
Posted on July 16, 2008 - Filed Under Arthritis | 1 Comment
Summer may be the time for holidays and enjoying the outdoors (weather permitting!) but if you suffer from arthritis, it’s not always that easy. Here are a few tips for managing arthritis naturally in the summer.
- If you’re on a car journey, try to take breaks so you can stretch and move, or rest if you’re driving.
- Try to take a short walk each day. If you’re walking in the countryside, try to choose footpaths that are on the flat, and use a walking stick for support.
- Feel like tackling some gardening? Use a lightweight wheelbarrow for carrying tools or heavy bags of
How to manage the pain of arthritis and still enjoy an active life
Posted on July 16, 2008 - Filed Under Arthritis | Leave a Comment
If you suffer from arthritis, the last thing you may feel like doing is taking any kind of exercise or playing sport. Nevertheless, it is possible to resume an active life despite arthritis pain. In fact physical activity can actually work as a pain reliever. A recent study published in the journal Arthritis Care and Research concluded that regular exercise can help to significantly improve and manage arthritis pain. According to Patience White of the US Arthritis Foundation, even small lifestyle changes such as taking a 10-minute walk three times a day can reduce the impact of arthritis on a… Continue reading
Read More..>>The Drugs Don’t Work
Posted on July 16, 2008 - Filed Under Arthritis | Leave a Comment
‘The drugs don’t work’: Should complementary and alternative therapies be dismissed so quickly, when many commercially marketed medicines are themselves unproven? Complementary and alternative therapies (CAMs) are usually considered by the orthodox medical profession to be ‘unproven’ in comparison to prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical products must undergo strict clinical testing to demonstrate their efficacy and safety before being brought to market. Unlike acupuncture, homeopathy and a whole range of other treatments, some going back thousands of years, these drugs have been scientifically proven to work, so we are told. What then are we to make of the slowly emerging fact that drugs manufacturers… Continue reading
Read More..>>Does rheumatoid arthritis begin in the intestine?
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Arthritis | Leave a Comment
It’s not widely known, but the results of numerous clinical trials over the last 30 years have pointed to an intriguing connection between rheumatoid arthritis and the intestines. As long ago as the 1940s, Charles de Coti-Marsh in his pioneering research into the causes and treatment of arthritis declared ‘the disease begins in the bowel.’ Nowadays there is increasing evidence that he was right.
Unfortunately, the connection between arthritis and diet has historically been downplayed, with nutrition never quite making the grade as an object of scientific study. More recently, however, the development of nutritional biochemistry. immunology and pharmacology… Continue reading
Read More..>>Is there an alternative, natural way to manage arthritis?
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Arthritis | Leave a Comment
When you are faced with the pain of arthritis, is there an alternative to drugs? Many people think so. Here, Rosemary Roberts tells Robin Houghton her story.
When did you first develop arthritis?
It was in 1994. My right knee ballooned up and I was in so much pain, I was unable to sit and bend my leg, I really didn’t know what it was. When I saw my GP he told me it was an ‘arthritic flare-up’. Two years later, I had a similar episode with my left knee.
How did you first hear about… Continue reading
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