Complications (1)
- Pericardial effusion
Lifestyle and home remedies (3)
- Rheumatoid arthritis pain: Tips for protecting your joints
- Arthritis pain: Do's and don'ts
- Exercise helps ease arthritis pain and stiffness
Symptoms (1)
- Symptom Checker
Tests and diagnosis (2)
- Sed rate (erythrocyte sedimentation rate)
- Rheumatoid factor
Treatments and drugs (3)
- Hip replacement
- Knee replacement
- Cortisone shots
About our e-newsletters
- Free e-newsletters
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- We do not share your e-mail address
Housecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more. Our biweekly topic-specific e-newsletters also include blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts, and other useful information that will help you manage your health.
Housecall Archives
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
continued:
Rheumatoid arthritis pain: Tips for protecting your joints
One step at a time
Remember, you don't have to make all of these changes at once. By gradually incorporating these methods into your day-to-day activities, you're more likely to stick with them.
Keep an open mind about how you do everyday tasks. You might have to change some old habits, but the reward is that your joints may cause you less pain.
Previous page(2 of 2)
- Hammond A. Rehabilitation in musculoskeletal diseases. Best Practice & Research Clinical Rheumatology. 2008;22:435.
- Gecht-Silver MR, et al. Overview of joint protection. http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html. Accessed Dec. 30, 2009.
- Arthritis self treatment: How to care for yourself with arthritis. Arthritis Foundation. http://www.arthritis.org/how-to-care-for-yourself.php. Accessed Dec. 30, 2009.
- Steultjens EEMJ, et al. Occupational therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2004:CD003114.
- Looking after your joints when you have arthritis. Arthritis Research Campaign. http://www.arc.org.uk/arthinfo/patpubs/6055/6055.asp. Accessed Dec. 30, 2009.
Find Mayo Clinic on