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Living with Chronic Pain and Coronavirus

Living with Chronic Pain and Coronavirus

PPM is speaking to clinical experts about the unique situation that individuals living with chronic pain conditions, including rheumatologic diseases such as rheumatoid...

Is It Safe to Go to the Gym If You’re at High Risk for COVID-19?

Is It Safe to Go to the Gym If You’re at High Risk for COVID-19?

If you’re living with rheumatoid arthritis or other chronic illness, you may feel stuck between a rock and a hard place, especially when it comes to fitness during the COVID-19...

6 Gentle Stretches to Relieve Stiffness from Driving with Arthritis

6 Gentle Stretches to Relieve Stiffness from Driving with Arthritis

Whether you’re planning to take a road trip this summer or you have a long regular commute to work, you know driving for long periods can be tough on your muscles and joints....

Is It Corona or My Rheumatoid Arthritis? How a Paranoid Patient Is Making Sense of Strange Symptoms

Is It Corona or My Rheumatoid Arthritis? How a Paranoid Patient Is Making Sense of Strange Symptoms

I’m a rule follower. That means during this global pandemic, I wear a mask religiously, I socially distance, and I don’t invite anyone into my house, though I’d make an...

“The relationship between sport, exercise and osteoarthritis is both complex and intriguing.”

“The relationship between sport, exercise and osteoarthritis is both complex and intriguing.”

Exercise is one of the best things you can do to improve your symptoms of arthritis. We support vital research to further understand this, including one of our research centres...

Being Creative to Cope with Juvenile Arthritis

Being Creative to Cope with Juvenile Arthritis

Being Creative to Cope with Juvenile Arthritis Being Creative to Cope with Juvenile Arthritis 02 Aug 2017 Share Julia was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis (JA) at the age of...

Patients with multiple autoimmune diseases have unique concerns, physician needs

Patients with multiple autoimmune diseases have unique concerns, physician needs

BOSTON — Rheumatologists need to do more to better understand the unique burdens and frustrations experienced by patients with multiple immune-mediated inflammatory diseases,...

Young Adults with Arthritis and Mental Health

Young Adults with Arthritis and Mental Health

Mental health is a part of everyone's life, just like physical health. Living with arthritis, physical health can fluctuate – some days you will feel better than others. Mental...

COVID-19 revisiting inflammatory pathways of arthritis

COVID-19 revisiting inflammatory pathways of arthritis

COVID-19 revisiting inflammatory pathways of arthritis SARS-CoV-2 Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease, caused by severe acute respiratory...

Staying active with arthritis

Staying active with arthritis

Research has shown the benefits of regular exercise for people with arthritis and Musculoskeletal conditions. It can help to ease stiffness and pain, strengthen your bones and...

Health Inequities in Arthritis: Spotlight on Indigenous Peoples and Barriers to Arthritis Care

Health Inequities in Arthritis: Spotlight on Indigenous Peoples and Barriers to Arthritis Care

Indigenous peoples around the world face unjust health differences – including those related to arthritis care and treatment. In Canada, researchers have found that Indigenous...

Most People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Are Not Happy With Treatment

Most People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Are Not Happy With Treatment

There are many ways of managing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) these days. An autoimmune disease that attacks the joints, rheumatoid arthritis can be managed or brought into...