Try These Joint-Friendly Outdoor Fall Activities
Grab your jacket and a friend, because the fall season has arrived, bringing with it cooler weather and fun outdoor fall activities. You don’t have to go far or do anything too strenuous to...
Here’s What It’s Like Living With Coccydynia
About a year ago, I began to notice pain around my coccyx while sitting down. At 52, I'm no stranger to back pain. I've suffered from it for years - including in my lower...
Top Foods That Fight Rheumatoid Arthritis
If you live with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), you know how challenging this painful condition can make everyday life. As an autoimmune disease, it causes your body’s immune system to mistakenly attack your joints. Researchers...
Is There a Preventative Connection Between Vitamin C and Gout?
Is there a connection between vitamin C and gout? About a decade ago, research began to suggest that taking a daily dose of vitamin C could help to reduce gout risk. This was good...
Can Cryotherapy Help Manage Your Pain?
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Some people may be able to handle it better than others, but pain is no one’s ally. From daily pain to debilitating days, there are solutions other than addicting pain medications that some doctors...
5 Signs of Vitamin D Deficiency You Must Know
The sunshine vitamin, also known as vitamin D, is something your body needs, but you may not be getting enough of it. About 42% of the population is deficient in vitamin D. You may...
What is Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis, or porous bone, is a disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue, leading to bone fragility and an increased risk of fractures of the hip, spine, and wrist....
Reprogramming Genes to Keep Joints Healthy
By: Dr. Francis Collins
Our joints are pretty amazing marvels of engineering, but they don’t last forever. As we age, or if we suffer certain injuries, the smooth, slippery white cartilage covering the ends of...
Can Stem Cell Therapy Reduce Joint Pain?
For people living with joint pain, finding the right treatment option can be a long road. Joint pain may be caused from a variety of conditions, such as arthritis, autoimmune diseases and injuries. Everyone...
Green Tea May Provide Relief for Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferers
Green tea is unfermented tea leaves and the average brewed cup contains up to 150 milligrams of polyphenols, a type of antioxidant. Like other antioxidants, polyphenols prevent molecules from oxidizing, a process that has the...
Your Sleep Apnea Could Be Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Understanding sleep apnea
Sleep apnea is a condition where breathing is disrupted during sleep. These pauses in breathing last for at least 10 seconds and may continue for a minute or more. Patients can experience...
What Exactly Is Phantom Limb?
What Causes Phantom Limb Pain?
After the amputation is complete and the limb is no longer in place, the nerve endings at the amputation site may continue to function in an unusual way. When phantom...
Soak Up Sun to Lower Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Sunlight & Vitamin D
When sunlight hits your skin, not only does it give us that warm, comforting glow, but it starts a chain reaction in your bodies that produces vitamin D. Vitamin D is...
Pain Profile: Rob Saffer Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Rob Saffer runs two nonprofit organizations and lives in Woodstock, New York.
Pain Resource: What do you do for a living?
Rob Saffer: I work from home as the executive director of a nonprofit, the Creative...
Jeanine’s joints
By Margaret Jaworski
Photo Courtesy of Jeanine Yutani: Jeanine Yutani (far right) with fellow riders Justin Baker and Laurie Miller
Three years running, Jeanine Yutani biked from San Francisco to Los Angeles, one of 200 participants...
Lady Gaga to Undergo Hip Surgery
The singer cancels the rest of her Born This Way Ball Tour after chronic pain takes her off the stage
One of the bigger news items this week was the cancellation of Lady Gaga's tour...
Painful Condition Sidelines Lady Gaga Who Cancels Upcoming Shows
After Performing in Montreal on Monday, The Born This Way Singer Decides to Take a Break from the Stage and Recover
Even celebrities deal with chronic pain. Severe pain and inflammation of the joints recently...
