A new study recommends that older adults suffering from arthritis be screened for anxiety. The journal Arthritis Care & Research reports that anxiety in arthritis patients ÛÓ including those with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis ÛÓ often is under-treated and undiagnosed. In analyzing 1,793 individual records from The Centers for Disease...
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Thyroid Drugs May Increase Risk for Fractures
According to a Health Day News article, seniors may be at increased risk for fractures because they take “excessive” doses of drugs used to treat thyroid problems. It suggests that regular dose monitoring of thyroid drugs is essential into older age. Researchers examined the link between fractures and levothyroxine, widely...
Osteoarthritis Poses Disability Risk
At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in February, researchers reported that the risk for disability from osteoarthritis of the knee is just as harmful as the risk for disability from cardiovascular disease.æ Osteoarthritis researcher Fred Nelson, M.D. said that osteoarthritis of the knee is one...
Wrist Fractures in Women as Dangerous as Arthritis, Diabetes and Falls
New research indicates that older women who experience a wrist fracture tend to develop more disabilities. Wrist fracture is the most common upper-extremity injury sustained by elderly individuals, according to a report from researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago. Of the 6,107 older women followed sampled for the report, 268...
Knee Replacements Beneficial for Balance Improvement as Well as Pain Reduction
A study presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons showed that a knee replacement can help improve an elderly person’s balance. [embed_youtubep>Balance problems and increased risk for falls are common among seniors and falls are the leading cause of injury for seniors in the United...
Get Moving to Control Arthritis Pain
One of my keynote topics in our Meaning of Life program talks about how seniors I have met lead a quality life by staying active and moving. Too often people mistakenly believe that the aches and pains associated with osteoarthritis are an inevitable part of aging that they must live...