Exercise is now considered an essential part of any arthritis treatment plan and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), Arthritis Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ...

Find out if osteoarthritis physical therapy is right for you. With the right help, you can exercise your sore joints and improve mobility. Although getting up and moving may be the last thing you feel ...

Your knees are crucial joints, each held together by a durable but vulnerable network of stabilizing ligaments, tendons, cartilage and bones. Knee ligaments have the especially tough job of keeping ...

Your joints have been sore and stiff for months, so you’ve decided to see an arthritis specialist, or "rheumatologist" — a doctor who specializes in musculoskeletal diseases and autoimmune disorders — ...

Treating psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is tricky because this disease affects both the skin and joints. PsA treatment includes a combination of medication and non-drug therapies like exercise, massage, ...

Grilled meat is so baked into American food culture that to suggest it might be linked to cancer and other chronic illnesses seems unthinkable. Yet every summer, the American Society for Cancer ...

In the latter half of a woman’s third decade of life, her ovaries start their journey to a deep slumber. With the ovaries’ functional decline, estrogen and progesterone levels also drop steadily until ...

Travis Salmon wasn’t the type to let a little ankle roll knock him out of the game. When he twisted his ankle playing basketball in high school and college, he did what was expected: He iced it, ...

People with arthritis have long felt that certain foods reduced their joint pain and inflammation. Now researchers are discovering more about the foods and spices that play a role in relieving ...

It’s tempting to huddle up on the sofa on cold winter days, but arthritis knows no season. A lack of activity can cause your joints to become stiff, so move it or lose it. Studies show that people ...

Sometimes gout can be diagnosed based only on symptoms: intense, painful swelling in a single joint — often in the big toe — that subsides, only to show up again in the same or a different joint. In ...

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