ARTHRITIS

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ARTHRITIS
By Tina Chen
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Table of Contents

• What is Arthritis?
• Most Common Types of Arthritis
• Symptoms
• Causes
• Help
• Treatment
• Exercises
• Risk Factors/Whos at risk?
• Prevention
• Glossary
• Links/References

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What is Arthritis?

• Arthritis comes from the Greek words arthron
  and itis.
• It means inflammation within a joint.
• There are many different forms of arthritis.
• The word arthritis is usually referred to all
  rheumatic diseases.

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Most Common Types of Arthritis

• Osteoarthritis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Fibromyalgia

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Symptoms

• pain and ache in joints after physical work or
  exercise
• swelling and redness of joints begin to appear
• stiffness and loss of function in the joints
• limited movement
• joints losing its normal shape

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Causes

• damage of cartilage
• joint injury or overused a joint
• overweight
• aging process
• dont drink enough water

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Help

• family physician
• rheumatologist
• physiotherapist
• occupational therapist
• orthopedic surgeon

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Treatment

• joint care (rest and exercise)
• medicines
• weight control (healthy diet)
• alternative therapies
• surgery

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Exercises

• strength training
• walking
• water exercise
• stretching
• Tai Chi

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Risk Factors/Whos at Risk?

• both men and women (more common in women)
• have injured or overused a joint
• elderly
• overweight
• dont drink enough water

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Prevention

• have a healthy diet
• maintain an ideal body weight
• exercise and rest
• protect your joints
• drink water

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Glossary (vocabulary)

• Cartilage a tough, resilient tissue that covers
  and cushions the ends of the bones and absorbs
  shock
• Joint a junction where two bones meet
• Rheumatic disease a medical condition that
  causes stiffness and pain in the joints or
  muscles of the body

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Links/References
Pictures are taken from http//office.microsoft.c
om/clipart/default.aspx?lcen-ca The Arthritis
Society. 2001. www.arthritis.ca Arthritis.com
Answers You Can Trust. 2 September 2004.
www.arthritis.com All About Arthritis. 2004.
www.allaboutarthritis.com Arthritis Foundation.
2004. www.arthritis.org O Driscoll, Erin F.
Exercises for Arthritis. Long Island City, NY
Halthy Living Books, 2004. Lawrence, Ronald M.,
Martin Zucker. Preventing Arthritis. New York,
Ny Penguin Putnam Inc., 2001. Mosher, Dianne,
Howard Stein and Gunnar Kraag. Living Well with
Arthirits. Toronto, ON Viking Canada, 2002.
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