Safely stretch your hip flexors and quadriceps muscles with this step-by-step video from the Arthritis Foundation’s Walk With Ease program. PRECAUTION: Be careful to maintain your balance. Hold on to ...

What it is: Inflammation of the sclera, or white part of the eye. “ [Inflammatory arthritis] conditions like RA can cause the eye wall (sclera), or the cornea, to become thin,” says Dr. Garg. “Minor ...

By Mary Anne Dunkin Restful sleep is important to almost every aspect of your health — including managing your pain and your arthritis. Yet pain from arthritis can make getting to sleep and staying ...

Find Your Yes Arthritis steals everyday joys, forcing many who live with it to say No to the things they want or need to do. But there are ways to say Yes instead of No. Yes to advocating for our ...

How You Can Learn Tai Chi Tai Chi Expert's Tips Leading tai chi practitioner and family physician Dr. Paul Lam of the Tai Chi for Health Institute shares how anyone at any fitness level can learn tai ...

By Mary Anne Dunkin | Feb. 17, 2023 If you’re having knee replacement surgery due to arthritis you can expect relief from pain, improved mobility and the ability to resume many of the activities you ...

Psoriatic arthritis, or PsA, is a chronic, autoimmune form of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and occurs with the skin condition psoriasis. It can affect large or small joints. In less common ...

By Timothy Gower | Updated Aug. 28, 2024 Although you may not have heard of enthesitis, the structures in the body affected by the condition are involved in every move you make. Bones and muscles are ...

By Linda Rath | April 30, 2024 If you have arthritis, you may be wary of exercise. The truth is physical activity is among the most uniformly successful of all arthritis treatments. Among other ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by pressure on the median nerve. This nerve runs from your forearm through a narrow passageway in your wrist (the carpal tunnel) to your hand. Although it can be hard ...

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By Linda Rath | April 23, 2024 Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptoms often start in the small joints of the hands and feet, especially the knuckles, first finger joints, wrists and the joints that ...