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    Your Family Doctor Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis / Osteo-arthritis / Gout / Osteoporosis
    Your Family Doctor Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis / Osteo-arthritis / Gout / Osteoporosis
    Your Family Doctor Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis / Osteo-arthritis / Gout / Osteoporosis
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    Your Family Doctor Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis / Osteo-arthritis / Gout / Osteoporosis

    By Dr Vinod Wadhwa

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    Accepting arthritis is not the same as accepting pain.
    Most patients of arthritis believe there is nothing they can do about the pain that accompanies the disease. Worse still, they believe any exercise of the joint will further worsen it. This handy and effective book breaks such myths and helps you manage and control arthritis.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWisdom Tree Publishers
    Release dateFeb 4, 2011
    ISBN9788183282376
    Your Family Doctor Arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis / Osteo-arthritis / Gout / Osteoporosis
    Author

    Dr Vinod Wadhwa

    Dr Vinod Wadhwa has a rich experience of over 20 years as a consulting physician. After completing his post-graduation, he has been actively advocating the cause of patient education.

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    Your Family Doctor Arthritis - Dr Vinod Wadhwa

    © Dr Vinod Wadhwa, 2006

    ISBN 81-8328-032-3

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise — without the prior permission of the publisher.

    While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages, if any, resulting from the use of information contained herein. No trade-mark infringement is intended upon.

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    Wisdom Tree

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    Ph.: 23247966/67/68

    Published by Shobit Arya for Wisdom Tree; edited by Manju Gupta; designed by Kamal P. Jammual; typeset at Icon Printographics, New Delhi-110018 and printed at Print Perfect, New Delhi-110064

    I find by experience, that the mind and body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

    Lord

    — Lord Chesterfield

    How true and how very expansive. Yes, when the body suffers from arthritis, the mind suffers from anxiety and depression and therefore, a need to understand arthritis is that much more important.

    Understanding brings control.

    — Bonewitz

    Bonewitz

    Contents

    Preface                                                     ix

    Acknowledgements                                            xi 1.    Joints: basic concept                                          1 2.    Rheumatoid arthritis                                          5 3.    Rheumatoid arthritis and the eye                                13 4.    Effect of rheumatoid arthritis on heart and blood vessels           15 5.    Managing rheumatoid arthritis                                 17 6.    Drugs, drugs and more drugs                                     29 7.    Juvenile chronic arthritis                                    37 8.    Gout                                                        39 9.    Ankylosing spondylitis                                       43 10.   Osteoarthritis                                              47

    11.   Osteoporosis                        57 12.   Prosthesis – replacement of joint       63 13.   Supplement, if you wish                71 14.   Pain — the painful details              79 15.   Exercise: if there is need              87

    Medical terms                        89

    Preface

    One never seems to appreciate the bounties of God. How often have you thought about the gift of refined locomotion that man has been bestowed with till you see a person who is unable to do so. Though diseases like rheumatoid arthritis are on the decline, yet age-related diseases are growing as we have a generation that has lived longer than any generation.The need to educate this group to prevent and manage disease conditions is the thought behind this tiny book.

    Let years wrinkle only the skin, not the soul.

    Acknowledgements

    Acknowledgements are due to BMJ (volumes read over the years), Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine and Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment.

    CHAPTER ONE

    Joints: basic concept

    When we talk of a joint, we usually think of an area where two bones meet, with room for movement. The first half of the statement is definitely correct but as far as the issue of movement is concerned, not all joints allow movement.

    Let’s discuss this enigma — the joint — in more detail. Simply said, a joint is an area where two bones come together (whether there is movement between them or not). Where two bones meet with an intervening cartilage or fibrous tissue that might fuse later on, there is

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    no possibility of movement. On the other hand, a joint, where two bones are held to by a thick layer of fibrous tissue or fibro cartilage, a very limited range of movement is possible. This type of joint can be seen in the bodies of the vertebra where the disc

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