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Save Money: Treat Arthritis Early

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Dr. Vishwas VirmaniPhysiotherapist • 27 Years Exp.MPT, BPT
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EARLY WARNINGS OF ARTHRITIS

Knowing how the types of arthritis differ will help you understand your disease and will help you work more effectively with your health care team. Aches and pains in and around incomes for their families.Parents are concerned about being able to care for their children adequately:if disabling features of the disease appear, concerns deepen, and at such times health care professionals can provide valuable suggestions for living a normal life with arthritis. Suggestions may include utilizing many available helpful devices, aids and appliances and the services of community agencies.Children with arthritis are concerned about being different as well as about being ill. All children want to enjoy the normal childhood pleasures. Arthritic children need the support of the professional health care team as well as those who love them to enable them to develop as normally as possible.

SAVE MONEY: TREAT ARTHRITIS EARLY If you think you have arthritis or that someone about whom you care has arthritis, it is important for a diagnosis to be made early. If  a diagnosis has been made, it is important to follow the advice given by the health care team. You can save money and spare yourself pain and anguish  by following recommendations right away and helping yourself in the early stages of the disease.Arthritis can be expensive disease, but it need not to be.It is expensive because it affects so many people in so many ways. Most people can live comfortably and continue to provide for themselves and their families.Others must cut down on the amount of work they do, change jobs, or stop working altogether. According to the US arthritis foundation, the annual cost to the national economy due to arthritis, in lost wages and medical bills, runs into billions of dollars. The cost in human suffering, pain, and disability cannot be measured.Following your doctor’s recommendations can also help you save money on medication and therapies. Arthritis sufferers spend millions of dollars each year on quack remedies, only to be disappointed with the results.The medical professions won’t hold any secrets from you when a real cure for arthritis is found. If the quack remedies were really safe and effective, the doctors you know would be recommendations them to you. The US arthritis foundation maintains a misinformation file containing thousands of quack remedies for arthritis. Many won’t hurt you, but they probably won’t help either.One of the dangers of using quack remedies for arthritis without consulting your physician is that you might be giving up a more effective treatment by following something that hasn’t been proven to help in cases such as your own. In the long run you can do irreparable harm to yourself. Some advertised arthritis clinics may use remedies that have effects throughout the body that may be life threatening to certain individuals. When you read about a new breakthrough treatment for arthritis, discuss it with your physician. Your physician will know how it might influence your arthritis.

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