Realistic Activity Goals Seem To Ease Arthritis Pain, Study Finds
Belief in ability to do exercise, and following through, can improve life for rheumatoid arthritis patients
THURSDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) — Rheumatoid arthritis patients who believe in their ability to achieve physical activity goals — called self-efficacy — are more likely to reach those objectives, researchers have found.
The investigators also found that patients who achieve [...]
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Rheumatology Etymology
Defining some common words in the world of the rheumatologist
The medical world is full of words with long histories and multiple meanings. Here are a few commonly used in the field of rheumatology with their definitions and where they came from.
RHEUMATISM:
Encyclopædia Britannica lists rheumatism as “any of several disorders that have in [...]
Alive In Wonderland: Kids Get Arthritis, Too
Kids get arthritis, too. Did you know that? Neither did we until our 10-year-old daughter, Emily, was diagnosed two weeks ago with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA).
The US has over 250,000 new cases of JRA every year, but when it’s your own kid, that number becomes personal. We were stunned. Who knew?
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Removing The Stigma: We Can’t Talk Enough About This One Certain Topic!
∞ itis: Wanting Out
I don’t think I’ve ever elevated a comment to post-of-its-own status, but one of the comments on my previous post references a subject that deserves coverage:
We seem to be in the same boat of pain right now. I cried all the way in to work today and I’ve cried all [...]
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Carla’s Corner: Description vs. Definition
I think it’s a powerful thing that so many people use RA in the description of themselves, but do not see themselves as being defined by it. It’s never, “I am an RA sufferer who is also a mother/teacher/fireman/Indian chief.” It is always, “I am a mother/teacher/fireman/Indian Chief and I have RA.”
Life comes first, RA [...]
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More Rheumatoid Arthritis Blogs
A Change of Plans
With a chronic, incurable disease like Rheumatoid Arthritis, this is not the retirement I had planned. Sometimes I blog about RA. Sometimes I blog about the other 90% of my life – but RA is always there.
Read More: http://www.rachangeofplans.blogspot.com/
noshingwithnatalie
I am a middle school teacher that happens to have Rheumatoid [...]
New Medical Score Sparks Controversy, Questions
Okay, when I first read this article I thought it was just someone’s idea of a bad joke…but it’s real!
Within the next 12 months, whether you like it or not, about 10 million Americans are expected to be scored — much like a credit score — on how likely they are to fill a prescription [...]
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To Walk Or Not To Walk? Humanizing Medicare Cuts
by Daniel P. Malito
Most of the congressmen, pundits, and organizations out there who are championing cuts in Medicare have no visceral ties to the program and thus will not be greatly affected by any of the changes that have been made, much less any of the new cuts that are being proposed [...]
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