Some of my findings for how to feel better with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Okay, so first of all, we'll be using this blog post to help you better understand rheumatoid arthritis either for yourself or for a loved one or maybe some of the clients that you're working with.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory condition. It is an immuno condition as well. So it's an autoimmune disease. What that means is, it's a, probably maladaptive might be the wrong word, but it's where your immune system is fighting itself. So it's kind of working against itself. There can be a lot of reasons why it might come to be that you have rheumatoid arthritis. But one of the main ones is a genetic link. It may be sitting dormant in your genetics and then it only requi

Now, one of the most annoying things, if you are a rheumatoid arthritis sufferer, is the fact that whilst you do always have it, you can have times of exacerbation and then relative remission. So that means that you have times when it has a flare-up as such where your symptoms feel worse, and tiredness is worse. Then you can have times where it pretty much feels like you may not have rheumatoid arthritis, or it can just always feel like it's there and just sometimes feel a whole bunch worse. Whi

Now a little bit about me, not to talk about myself too much, but I studied my Ph.D. through the school of physiotherapy at the University of Otago, and my Ph.D. was in overcoming barriers to exercise in people with chronic illness with focus on musculoskeletal conditions. One of the groups that I worked with is people with rheumatoid arthritis. So I am equipped to know a little bit more than your average Joe about rheumatoid arthritis. I have seen a number of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

So the ACSM guidelines were saying to be active for 30 minutes a day, and to do that every day or six days a week. From that, that exercise is like a bell curve where more sessions does not equal more benefit after about four sessions a week so every other day exercising and less benefit derived after 45 minutes. Well, all of these things are very general guidelines, and it does depend on the intensity that you're working out at. But these were the typical guidelines that I went in for structuri

The goal was just to participate three times a week and this had a significant benefit.

People found quite a big difference in how their condition was feeling because being more active and then being able to take control of their session meant that they were more likely to participate and then from there their ability to perform in tests of function, not just in activities of daily living but also in fitness tests increased but some of them also found side effects of losing weight as well.

Losing weight has also been shown not just to help reduce inflammation in the body, but it also helps to reduce the impact on joints. Also, read my post on how to lose weight safely and effectively. So there were a number of factors that proved to be very beneficial for people in these groups for participating in exercise and although not specifically studied by my exercise intervention, when you do exercise, and you have this kind of structure into your week in your day to day life, sometimes a