Swollen knuckles, fingers tightly drawn together to a point, almost like a paintbrush. Cynthia could hardly move them, and never without pain. The doctors, and there had been many, had all told her that there was nothing that could be done. Well, pain killers, but nothing else. Diet, ...
March 25, 2011Kelly O'Neill152 Commentse-patient,Nuclear bone scan,Talking to doctors Several times I’ve had to be dragged kicking and screaming to medical treatment. No one else did it for me; so I had to learn to drag myself. It was a long and harsh journey, but I determined tob...
pinky finger with a painful joint. It was red and swollen and had a yellow substance (staph infection) on the side of my finger. I was in banking at the time, and I made an appointment with one of my orthopedic doctors because I thought maybe I had broken my finger. It hurt so ...
In addition, doctors can also personalize treatment plans based on patients’ genetic background information. In the future, we will continue to focus on studying the interrelationship and internal mechanism between RA, AS, JIA and psoriasis, with a view to contributing more valuable information to...
While there is not a simple blood test to detect psoriatic arthritis, there is other information that helps doctors pinpoint the cause of your symptoms. If you test positive for rheumatoid factor (RF), for instance, you probably do not have psoriatic arthritis; most people with psoriatic arthri...
possible that if medical doctors provided more objective input on disease activity and remission, that the results might have differed. Furthermore, several variables collected herein were self-reported by the patients, rather than being recorded, or directly assessed by health practitioners. ...
As mentioned earlier, IRBs are dynamic and may depend on many factors related to both information coming from one’s environment—both from authorities (e.g., doctors) and less reliable sources (e.g., internet forums)—but also may be related to the severity of the symptoms of the disease...
Important to know: While doctors long estimated that replacement joints might start to wear down in as little as 10 to 15 years, more recent research suggests today's joints last longer. But individual results can vary. Other rheumatoid arthritis surgeries ...
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Have you heard the horror stories of people changing doctors and, because they’re well-controlled and thus have good labs, being told that they’re fine and can’t have their meds thatmakethem fine? I have been so apprehensive about having to find a new rheumatologist that I told my hus...