Battling Arthritis

Excuse my recent absence, I’ve been under a literally bad weather. You see, I work in our not-fully finished house near an open window where there is an optimum signal for my 3G signal. When it rains (especially if directed sideways) the cellphone (my modem) and the back of my PC (monitor and CPU) will get wet.

The last couples of days , we had to endure dark gray skies and continuous heavy downpour. You know… that kind of downpour that has no intention of stopping, like the heavens has a big hole in it. This kind of weather is our normal this time of the year, we are just thankful the rains and winds didn’t brew into a full-blown storm. While in the temperate countries, it must be starting to get really cold, temperatures dropping continuously it won’t be long before it starts snowing.

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A disabling form of arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis is a painful and progressive disease in which some or all of the spine’s vertebrae fuse together.

Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis that not only affects the spine but also can attack other joints and organs, including the heart, lungs and eyes. The condition afflicts an estimated one in 200 males and one in 500 females and typically strikes during adolescence and young adulthood.

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If you search the web for the top 10 online resources for arthritis, the following will come out:

1. Arthritis Foundation (www.arthritis.org) whose tag lines are: Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention Tips and Pain Relief Advice — A foundation whose mission is to improve lives through leadership in the prevention, control and cure of arthritis and related diseases. From the page’s about section: The Arthritis Foundation is the only national not-for-profit organization that supports the more than 100 types of arthritis and related conditions with advocacy, programs, services and research.
2. Arthritis definition at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia — who wouldn’t know wikipedia? It will come out up in the results page whatever keyword you put in the any search engine. Have you read wikipedia’s about page? It says there the wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopedia project. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites.
3. Arthritis at MedlinePlus — a trusted source of health information on the web that is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. The credibility of this page is backed by the NIH, so how can you not trust the information on this page, right? From MedlinePlus’ about page: MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
4. Arthritis.com, your online arthritis resource — from the website’s disclaimer that can be found at the bottom of the home page: This Web site is intended for residents of the United States only. The health information contained herein is provided for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace discussions with a healthcare provider. Decisions regarding patient care must be made with a healthcare provider, considering the unique characteristics of the patient.
5. Arthritis article at Medicinenet — MedicineNet.com brings doctor’s information to the readers. From its about page: MedicineNet, Inc. is Owned and Operated by WebMD and part of the WebMD Network. MedicineNet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers via its robust, user-friendly, interactive web site.
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The recent approval of Voltaren® Gel makes it the first USFDA –approved prescription NSAID (non-steroidal anti- inflammatory drug) treatment that can be applied directly to site of osteoarthritis pain.

Voltaren® Gel is the only prescription topical medication proven to significantly reduce osteoarthritis pain in both the knees and the joints of the hand that offers highly effective pain relief with minimal drug absorption throughout the body - shown to be 94% less than comparable oral diclofenac treatment.

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Modern Biosciences plc has signed an exclusive worldwide license agreement with the University of Aberdeen in order to further develop new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and to put into trials the new RA drugs that Aberdeen has discovered but haven’t been tested yet.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a debilitating disease that causes inflammation of the joints which affects some 1% of the worldwide population (or approximately 165 million people. More →

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Knee buckling or the sudden “giving away” of the knee is common in older people, particularly in people with severe knee arthritis or after knee surgery.

It has actually became some sort of a joke that if your knee is already buckling that that is a sign of getting old.

Which may actually be true because the condition has been found to exist in the older population even if they don’t have sever knee arthritis of didn’t have knee surgery.

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For starters, let me cover the basics of arthritis:

Arthritis is most commonly characterized by pain and stiffness in the body causing swelling especially in the joints such as elbows and knees leading to difficulty in movement.

There are several kinds of arthritis:

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Hello there, I’m Gloria and I will be your new blogger here.

By profession I am chemist and have worked on a research lab for ten years. In 2004, I discovered the blogosphere and have started to blog on a personal level. Two years later, I dumped the 8-5 research lab work and have been blogging professionally, full time since then.

In the course of my blogging career, I gave up a couple of other blogs to fully concentrate on health science (or science and health, whichever you look at it) — my discovered niche.

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It can be scary going to the doctor, but you can be in and out quicker if you are able to give your doctor accurate descriptions of you problem. Be sure to tell him or her when the problem started and if there are any times the pains seems worse. Also knowing these common arthritis symptoms will make you realize when to make a doctor’s appointment or not. Generally, the earlier your doctor knows about your arthritis symptoms, the earlier you can be accurately diagnosed and get effective treatment.

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