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Coping With Arthritis

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Participants: Allan Handysides, Stoy Proctor

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00:37 Hello, my name is Stoy Proctor,
00:39 I am here today hosting 'Wonderfully Made.'
00:44 We are wonderfully made but sometimes
00:47 things go wrong. Today we're gonna be
00:50 talking about arthritis. Different types of
00:53 arthritis, in fact there is 100 varieties of
00:55 arthritis we're not gonna talk about all
00:57 one hundred today but we're gonna talk
00:59 about some of the things we might be able
01:01 to do to ease the pain and may be even
01:06 make life a little easier as my guest today
01:09 I have Dr. Allan Handysides, Allan,
01:12 welcome and you're gonna be our guest
01:14 today and I'd like to ask you first what is it?
01:21 What is arthritis? What is arthritis?
01:24 Well it's a simple word, it really means
01:27 inflammation of a joint, and as such there
01:31 are many as you've already said,
01:33 many different kinds of arthritis.
01:35 A joint is classically made of, is the place
01:39 where two bones come together and the
01:42 good Lord made us in such a way that the
01:45 surfaces of those bones are covered with
01:47 cartilage which allows there to be a
01:49 movement that slips and slides rather easily.
01:53 A lubricant is provided to that joint by
01:57 what is called Synovium or the Synovial
01:59 membrane. Now, this is a specialized structure
02:03 that lines the joint but not over this surfaces
02:08 that rub together but on the inside of the
02:11 capsule that holds the joint together and this
02:15 membrane secretes a lubricating fluid that
02:19 actually gives a nice smooth gliding surface.
02:25 Around the the Synovium is the capsule and
02:29 then supporting the joint are various
02:31 ligaments and tendons and then the muscles
02:35 and so we find that we have this very a
02:38 compact place between bones that gives
02:41 both strength and support and yet at the
02:44 same allows for flexibility and therefore
02:47 for movement. We usually define joints
02:50 small joints and large joints the large joint,
02:54 the largest joint of course there is the
02:55 hip joint. We have knee joints, we have
02:58 then smaller joints, the smaller ones which
03:01 are in our fingers and in our feet.
03:05 And we can get arthritis, different forms
03:07 of arthritis effect different joints
03:11 predominantly so there are patterns of
03:13 arthritis. Now, my grandmothers,
03:17 I've got two grandmothers as most
03:18 people, and both of them had rheumatise,
03:24 what do you think this was?
03:26 Well, what is rheumatise? Well, rheumatise,
03:30 I heard many years ago. And my family
03:31 use to be lumbago, and okay, rheumatism,
03:35 and so forth. That term is a term that has
03:38 been used over generations and it's a lay
03:42 term that refers to arthritis.
03:46 Usually it's referred to the form of
03:48 arthritis that came with aging which is
03:52 osteoarthritis, but any of the forms of
03:55 arthritis that might have been called
03:57 rheumatise you know according to the old
04:01 time treatment. Now, I'd like to ask
04:02 you something because my grandmother
04:04 used to be able to forecast the weather,
04:08 is that possible? You know this is,
04:09 it's a very interesting thing and we don't
04:11 quite understand why that is, but many
04:13 people who have arthritis are sensitive to
04:18 possibly barometric changes, pressure
04:20 changes. And we'll be able to say there
04:23 is bad weather coming along. Interestingly my
04:25 wife she doesn't have arthritis that I've been
04:28 able to define but she has had over the
04:31 years joint pains of various variety and she
04:34 will sometimes say I think we're going to
04:36 have a storm because my knees are aching
04:40 and I think that's a fairly common feeling
04:44 among different people that they can
04:46 sense weather changes probably barometric
04:48 changes. Now, there's many kinds of
04:50 arthritis as I mentioned earlier but we're
04:54 gonna have to limit ourselves to may be a
04:56 couple of kinds. Tell me about osteoarthritis?
05:00 Well, we can, if we have time we can talk
05:03 about some of the other forms.
05:04 Osteoarthritis is the commonest form of
05:06 arthritis, its probably going to affect,
05:08 maybe 60 percent of people are going to
05:12 have trouble with osteoarthritis people
05:15 who have a family history of osteoarthritis
05:19 again are more prone to develop it.
05:23 And people who are have some of the
05:26 predisposing factors such as heavy manual
05:29 labor. Well, osteoarthritis is not an
05:32 arthritis that is a disease caused by living
05:39 in an improper way or anything like that.
05:42 Except that it is brought on by heavy
05:45 physical labor. So somebody who works
05:47 a jackhammer for instance or somebody
05:50 who is working as a stone mason with a
05:54 hammer hammering away at rock corner
05:57 with a chisel, chiseling rock. Somebody who
06:00 maybe lifting heavy weights, a minor.
06:04 Well, those kind of people do tend to
06:06 get osteoarthritis, although one can get
06:10 osteoarthritis even doing relatively light
06:13 work and sedentary work. if it's a repetitive
06:16 type of motion, now I myself have osteoarthritis
06:20 in my hands which surprised me because
06:22 having been a physician, I didn't think that
06:24 I was doing a lot of strain. A lot of work,
06:27 but I was doing a lot of surgery,
06:29 I used to operate may be for 12 or 15
06:32 hours a week and using even though
06:36 there's small instruments but I was using
06:39 a repetitive type of motion with sowing
06:43 and cutting and repairing tissues and so forth.
06:48 And I have a little arthri-d in my hands.
06:51 You'll notice my finger, this little finger has
06:54 arthritis. And that may have also have been
06:57 just. One second, what did you call it?
06:58 Stuck, yeah stuck together, arthri-d.
07:00 Yes, you look you see well I can close this
07:02 finger those that joint there has kind of
07:05 stuck up and what's happen with the joint is
07:08 that there has been an overgrowth of bony,
07:12 little tuberosities around the joint the fibrous
07:16 tissue of the capsules become stiffened and
07:20 at a point in time, it was painful.
07:23 I think I sustained an injury actually to this
07:26 little finger as well which has speeded up
07:28 the process, but that's a classic situation
07:32 for osteoarthritis. Many people get hip,
07:36 osteoarthritis of the hip, that can be a very
07:39 serious problem. And osteoarthritis then
07:43 is a wear and tear type of problem,
07:47 on the joints. Now, occasionally I have
07:50 fallbacks, years ago I watched Roger
07:53 Staubach, he was a quarterback for the
07:56 Dallas Cowboys and heard him advertising
07:59 pain killers. Well, are sports like contact
08:02 sports like football, are those players have to
08:06 suffer arthritis? Yes, osteoarthritis later
08:09 on in life, they are indeed, particularly
08:12 players that get tackled are likely to have
08:17 the joints traumatized and trauma just
08:20 like hard work trauma can predispose.
08:24 So, sports as well as some of the manual
08:26 professions could be a danger, one of the
08:28 most severe anthracitic situation that I
08:32 remember encountering was in a former
08:34 hockey player. You know, sometimes we
08:37 look at the stars of hockey or the stars
08:40 of sports and we think wow! What a
08:43 wonderful thing, but we don't understand
08:44 that they are very many casualties along
08:48 the way and for every big price.
08:49 Every star there are hundreds of people
08:52 who played hard may be enjoyed it very
08:55 much and I'm not against good athletic
08:57 activities, but do sustain severe injuries and
09:02 we need if our children and young people are
09:05 playing sports we need to be careful that
09:07 they're not putting themselves at undue risk.
09:11 For instance the pictures in baseball,
09:14 that repetitive strain many of them have
09:16 problems with shoulders and elbows,
09:19 arthritis because of repetitive throwing,
09:23 you know that ball time after time after time,
09:26 that's not what we were made for.
09:28 We were made to function in a balanced way,
09:31 not in a sort of highly focused way that
09:34 stresses one joint to the, you know
09:38 to out of proportion to all the others.
09:41 After listening my grandmothers for years
09:43 complaining about their arthritis is there
09:46 anything I can do or may be its too late
09:49 for me but some people can do to prevent
09:50 it? Well, of course we've already been touching,
09:54 talking about preventing these strains and
09:56 these injuries. So, don't play contact sports.
09:59 Avoid these excessive activities, if we can.
10:03 So, there is anyway though like I'm,
10:04 say I'm a stone mason. Is there anyway
10:07 to avoid this kind of strain? It might be very
10:10 difficult, it might be very difficult,
10:13 one can of course if you have knee
10:15 troubles or hip troubles look to your shoes,
10:19 we need to have cushioned shoe and
10:21 there's been a great advance in the last
10:23 25-30 years since all the different shoe
10:27 manufactures have given comfortable
10:29 springy shoe, that's going to be very
10:31 beneficial to the knees and the hips of
10:34 people who wear those type of shoes.
10:36 When I was a boy we used to wear
10:37 you know stiff hard heels and soles people
10:43 wore boots, sometimes steel heels were
10:46 put on those and that transmitted a lot of
10:48 force through the limbs, so good cushioned
10:52 footwear is a very important thing for
10:55 protecting and then of course it's important
10:57 to wear supportive gloves and protective
11:00 gear in certain activities. You know,
11:03 I occasionally on my lawn tractor I wear
11:06 earmuffs to protect my ears, yes.
11:09 And when I get off the tractor and start
11:10 walking it feels like the sound come in my
11:15 ears, it feels like somebody's pounding
11:17 my ears. Now, when you take the protective,
11:20 no, when I put them on and walk,
11:24 which explains to me that even when I walk
11:28 there is a pounding going on in my joints,
11:31 I can hear it. Were these from the earmuffs,
11:33 it's just amplifies it, it amplifies it.
11:36 You're cutting off all the other sound,
11:38 you're cutting off the external sound and
11:39 then you're aware of, if you were eating
11:42 your honey nut. So, shoes I think it
11:45 would be important wouldn't it be?
11:47 Very important, because you do transmit
11:49 forces through that. Now, there are some
11:51 other things that might increase the risk of
11:55 osteoarthritis and that is obesity,
11:57 is that true? It certainly is. Obesity imagine
12:02 we've talked about work, now imagine that
12:04 you carry a 50 pound sack of potatoes or grain
12:08 or whatever else you want to do.
12:10 Everywhere you go, are extra calories,
12:13 well if you have 50 pounds of overweight
12:15 that's what you do. Yeah! That's right.
12:16 Yeah you're carrying that all the time and
12:19 that's a major strain on your joint and obesity
12:23 being such a common problem.
12:25 Now, there is a definite thing that we can
12:27 do is to take control about our weight.
12:29 Easier said of course than done,
12:31 because you know I feel myself I've got
12:34 this little thing here, it's not because
12:36 I don't know what to do its because
12:38 we need to be motivated, to be have the
12:42 will power not to eat so much. So, how does
12:45 the obese, is that just mean there is extra
12:48 pressure on the joints? Yes, extra pressure
12:50 on the joints, extra wear and extra tear.
12:54 Alright, go on. Sometimes you know we're
12:57 going to have to address osteoarthritis
13:00 though with surgery, you are?
13:04 Yeah, my father had osteoarthritis in the
13:06 knees, as a boy he suffered rickets.
13:10 He was brought up in Newcastle on Tyne,
13:13 its an mining and cold city in Northern
13:17 England. Very cold, very dark, not a lot
13:21 of sunshine and of course they're dressed
13:23 from here right down the toes, they had
13:25 a big hat on as well. Very little sunshine,
13:27 vitamin D deficiency developed and he
13:30 became, he had bowlegs and we used to
13:33 tease him about his bowlegs but it was a
13:35 sad thing really because it was a fact
13:37 that he had rickets as a child. That meant
13:40 that as he walked the pressure on his knee
13:44 joints were transmitted not evenly across
13:47 the joint but to one side of the joint.
13:49 That's right, okay, and so when he got to
13:51 be about 18 years old he was having a
13:53 lot of trouble with his knees and the doctor
13:56 said what we could do is to cut,
13:57 do an osteotomy, cut your bone and realign
14:01 them, so that the weight will be disturbed
14:03 to the other side of the joint and that
14:04 would free you of some of the pain.
14:07 Now, today maybe they would have said
14:09 to him, maybe you can have a joint replacement,
14:11 replacement. Where they take the joint out
14:13 and we will replace the joint, they have
14:17 done surgeries like putting caps on the
14:19 joint, just on the ends of the bones so
14:22 that the surfaces that are rubbing against
14:23 each other are metallic. And we have
14:26 of course arthroscopic surgery which is
14:28 very interesting surgery because you take
14:30 the little tiny tube like thing through which
14:33 you can look and see and they can look inside
14:36 a joint, that's very useful sometimes if a
14:39 joint's damaged with osteoarthritis,
14:40 got little chips of cartilage or bone inside
14:43 that, they can take those out through
14:45 little tiny cuts maybe quarter or half an
14:48 inch in size. People can have that surgery
14:50 done and go away very, very readily.
14:54 Are these surgeries quite successful or do
14:56 they have to be done over again?
14:58 Some times will, replacement surgery will
15:00 have to sometimes to be done over again.
15:02 Maybe what ten years? May be 10-15 years
15:05 and there is a time with the improving joints
15:09 that is getting to be longer and longer
15:12 time that a joint will last. That is why we
15:14 used to say to people well maybe put up
15:17 with your pain a little longer because we
15:19 didn't want to really do a joint replacement
15:22 too soon. Especially if a person was say,
15:28 60 or may be if he could put up with him for
15:30 5 years. What's the problem with having
15:32 replacement, the replacement? Well, the
15:35 problem with the replacement is nothing,
15:36 nothing is as good. Except expense.
15:38 As nothing is as good as what God gave us.
15:41 We are indeed as our program says wonderfully
15:44 made, beautifully made and when you replace
15:48 a joint with a manufactured joint it
15:51 works fine but I've seen them when
15:53 they've been taken out and the ground
15:55 up edges and the ground up surfaces,
15:58 the wear and tear that the joint undergoes
16:02 and our normal joints repair themselves.
16:05 Self-reparative joints and so, marvelous,
16:07 marvelous, it's absolutely fantastic that that
16:10 can take place. So yes, it's good that there
16:14 is a hip or a joint replacement,
16:16 knee replacement but it would be so much
16:19 benefit to preserve what God has given
16:21 us if we could. Now, my grandmother,
16:24 one of my grandmothers was told that if she can
16:26 get relief by standing, now in Texas we
16:29 have red ants, red ants about a half
16:32 inch long and they are sting and they're
16:35 very painful but she was told if she went
16:38 out on this bed and got stung by ants that
16:40 would relief her arthritis. I don't think
16:43 it did, you know anything about this?
16:45 Well, of course I am, that's an alternative
16:48 remedy. What I am going, leading at is that
16:51 are there some kind of relief, is there
16:54 something that we can do to relieve somes
16:55 of this pain in a little surgery.
16:57 Well, of course the simple pain relievers
17:00 have worked well and continue to work well.
17:04 Aspirin as you know is an extract of willow
17:06 bark and was, quite natural, right?
17:09 It was natural originally and then it's been
17:12 synthesized and so Aspirin is a very good
17:15 pain reliever, of course it's hard on the
17:17 stomach, it may cause bleeding in some
17:19 individuals so it's not something that you
17:20 can take easily. Tylenol is less irritative
17:26 to the stomach and it metabolizes to some
17:28 of the similar ingredients. So, Tylenol
17:30 will work. Then we have a whole class of
17:32 medications called non-steroidal
17:34 anti-inflammatory and they've been used with
17:37 some degree of benefit but they also are
17:39 irritated to the stomach. The latest ones
17:43 which have been in the news are Vioxx and
17:46 we've also seen some problems with that they
17:50 are what you call COX-2 inhibitors.
17:52 The COX-2 inhibitor interfere with the
17:55 inflammatory process in the different
17:58 place but they have been found, Vioxx has
18:01 been found to increase your risk of heart
18:03 attack. So, when we talk about treatment
18:06 for arthritis, yes we really do want to avoid
18:10 it if at all possible and then we want to use
18:13 as mild the medication as we possibly can.
18:15 It's important not to forget some very simple
18:18 things that can help for arthritis.
18:21 Heat and cold you know is something that will
18:24 very often help, now we don't usually heat
18:27 and inflame joints, so we can talk about
18:29 rheumatoid arthritis, we don't heat and
18:31 inflame joint but osteoarthritis may benefit
18:34 from warm and we can also alternate that with
18:37 warm and cold. Alright, now, get into the
18:40 details how long if I have a joint that's
18:44 inflamed and hurting how much cold what
18:47 kind of, how do we put cold on that?
18:49 Ice pack. Well, yes an ice pack would be a
18:51 good way, a heating pad will be fine,
18:53 heating pad that we mild, or if you're using,
18:56 you you must be very careful using hot
18:58 water bottles and those sort of things
19:00 because it's gonna burn the skin.
19:02 And if there is a diabetic that's being
19:03 treated or if there is any evidence of nerve
19:07 insensitivity there, got to be very,
19:09 very careful with heat. But you can put
19:11 warm packs around you, usually put a
19:14 warm packet something that you may heat
19:17 or if it can be an electrical pad that you
19:19 heat. You apply that around the affected
19:21 area or over the affected area usually
19:24 for five, six, seven minutes, then you
19:27 remove it and then you can have an ice
19:28 pack. And an ice pack you can make by
19:31 crushed ice inside a towel or, okay,
19:34 a plastic bag first and then, and you apply
19:37 that and then you just cool the joint,
19:39 you then alternate the hot, you can do
19:41 it with water. Actually very, very good
19:45 way to heat and cool if you can immerse
19:47 if its an ankle or something you can
19:49 immerse it in warm water then in cold
19:51 water. Again for five minutes-ten minutes
19:53 you always want to end up with a cold
19:56 application, good, for osteoarthritis because
19:59 the cold chills it out and the warm brings
20:02 more blood there so it improves the healing.
20:05 Now, the, I have a brother-in-law that
20:08 took one of these thermal foils,
20:09 these heating pads? Yes. That they have a
20:11 cut off switch on them, which is automatic,
20:13 but he was very clever he propped
20:16 something up against that cut off switch
20:18 and left it on and went to sleep and he
20:20 couldn't leave himself with a big burn
20:21 on his skin, and when woke up his fingers
20:24 were very inflamed and they had to remove
20:27 one of this fingers and half of the other.
20:29 I've seen people with burns the size of
20:31 saucers because of heating pads,
20:33 be very careful. These automatic cut off
20:35 switches are there for a purpose, very,
20:37 right, and so don't try to outsmart them.
20:41 You know, I've seen that we are going to
20:43 not have a lot of time, some people will
20:45 be suffering with rheumatoid arthritis
20:46 that's exactly right and that's our next
20:47 topic. Next part of our topic what about,
20:50 now what's the difference between
20:51 rheumatoid and osteo? Rheumatoid is not
20:54 a wear and tear situation, you know the
20:57 Adventist health study showed that people
20:59 who were vegetarians actually had less
21:02 rheumatoid arthritis not the other kinds
21:05 of arthritis not gouty arthritis not,
21:07 we are not talking about that. But vegetarians
21:09 had less rheumatoid arthritis then did the
21:12 others, it wasn't a very, very major
21:15 reduction because some of the rheumatoid
21:16 arthritis is hereditary, it occurs much more
21:20 in women then it occurs in men. But it's an
21:23 inflammatory form of arthritis, the synovial
21:28 membrane which I mentioned at the beginning
21:30 becomes inflamed and it becomes inflamed
21:33 probably because antibodies are attacking
21:36 it. Now, what triggers that immune response
21:41 that the body is rejecting its own joint
21:44 we're not sure about it, it may be that there
21:46 are infectious agents that are doing that,
21:48 it may be that there are something in the
21:50 environment there maybe some toxic or
21:53 something that we are eating that is
21:56 stimulating this and it may not be the same
21:59 factor for everybody, but the end
22:01 result is that the joint membranes become
22:05 very inflamed and those inflammatory
22:07 products that are poured into the joint
22:10 damage the cartilage. So, people who have
22:13 rheumatoid arthritis are subject to joint
22:16 damage as a result of inflammatory process
22:20 and today we're much more aggressive
22:22 in treating rheumatoid arthritis than we
22:24 used to be because it's recognized that,
22:27 that joint damage can take place early
22:30 in the onset. So, lets suppose I've been
22:34 diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis but
22:37 I've heard from the supplement people that
22:41 they are some alternatives out there,
22:43 is it wise to experiment with some of those
22:46 alternatives while that process is going
22:48 on damaging my joints. Chondroitin has been
22:54 recommended as a treatment, some of
22:58 those alternatives, "alternatives" may not
23:03 be alternatives for too long because once
23:06 they are shown to work they will then be
23:10 incorporated into the normal treatment.
23:13 But, a person who has an acute flare-up,
23:15 for instance somebody may start with
23:18 rheumatoid arthritis in a very, very
23:21 dramatic way. Rheumatoid arthritis
23:24 usually tends to be bilateral in its
23:26 distribution, it may effect the joints of the
23:29 hands, the elbow, knees, it doesn't usually
23:32 effect the vertebral column, the spinal
23:33 column. But if you have a very sudden
23:37 onset of rheumatoid arthritis then that is
23:41 probably not the way for alternatives.
23:44 How are they treated? Well they,
23:45 what do they do for, if you got it?
23:47 They have many different treatments,
23:49 some of the newer treatments that have
23:52 been used actually interfere with the
23:58 immune process itself, and so what they
24:01 do as they try to intercept one of them
24:04 is called Etanercept, it tries to intercept
24:09 this reaction of rejection of your own
24:13 synovial tissue and these are very, very
24:17 interesting medications, they are working
24:21 well, but I don't believe personally that
24:24 we have had a long enough experience to
24:27 be able to say definitively that they
24:30 can't have some serious side-effects
24:32 and so, since they is a cure insight?
24:35 I don't know that there is a, that we
24:37 could say that at this point in time we have
24:39 a cure insight, I think our understanding
24:42 of rheumatoid has become very, very
24:44 profound. Rheumatologist understand in a,
24:48 to a great extend and it could well be
24:51 that research into rheumatoid is going to
24:53 give us a benefit. I think I'd like to sort
24:57 of rather than focus on the drug therapy
24:59 and people are gonna have to see their
25:00 doctor for the drug therapy. I get that
25:02 yeah. I would like to talk about some
25:05 of the things that people can do who
25:07 have rheumatoid arthritis. Yes, some of
25:09 the treatments, some of the home,
25:11 type of, some of the methods of management,
25:14 okay. It's very, very important for a person
25:16 with rheumatoid arthritis to avoid trauma
25:19 to the joints and yet, like lifting heavy
25:22 weights, like lifting heavy weights, running,
25:24 straining, running putting damn, putting
25:27 excessive pressure and yet it's very,
25:30 very important that the range of
25:32 movement of that joint should be
25:34 maintained. So, lifting weights is probably,
25:39 need to be maintain. We need to maintain
25:41 the range of movement, we need to
25:44 maintain the strength, we need to protect
25:48 from trauma, so this is a situation where
25:51 we need gentle exercise, not, not a
25:55 strenuous exercise and the strengthening,
25:58 the muscle strengthening may be done
26:00 through isometric type of exercises.
26:02 You all remember Charles Atlas, I'm sure
26:05 you don't remember, some of the older
26:07 people remember Charles. I saw ads that
26:08 actually its Charles Atlas method, that's
26:11 where we flex our muscles but we don't
26:13 move the joint, that can maintain the
26:15 strength without traumatizing the joint.
26:19 So that is very important, swimming is a
26:22 weight less situation but you can go
26:26 through the full range of exercise, now you
26:28 always remember, the rheumatologist when
26:30 I was in Edinburgh Medical School there,
26:32 he said if you ever grow and you guys
26:34 are going to grow in prestige in the medical
26:37 fashion one day you might be incharge of a
26:40 rheumatology unit, remember the most
26:43 important piece of equipment is a
26:44 therapeutic swimming pool, and whirlpools
26:47 and swimming pools are a very, very
26:49 useful way for people with arthritis to be
26:52 able to exercise and yet not to damage
26:55 their joints. Well, this has been a pleasure
26:58 today, discussing this topic I think this
27:03 condition is wear and tear our human
27:05 body certainly effects a lot of people and
27:09 lets just, in about 30 seconds recap of
27:12 some of the things that we can do ourselves.
27:16 Increase our flexibility, increase our
27:18 strength gently, gently, because we don't
27:22 want to put any pressure right on our
27:24 joints. Is that we can apply hot and cold,
27:29 yes that, mild hot, hydro therapy,
27:31 hot and cold and watch the thermo for,
27:33 don't let that automatic thing work,
27:36 'cause you're gonna burn yourself,
27:37 you don't want to loose your fingers like
27:39 I have? Not for that reason, for another
27:41 reason but, so these are some of the
27:44 things we can do and be sure you get
27:48 good health. Dr. Handysides I thank
27:50 you very much today for being with us.
27:52 People who have arthritis and other
27:54 causes that we didn't have time to talk
27:55 about. Yeah, it's a serious thing, go see
27:58 your medical profession, an expert in this
28:02 particular area. So that you can get help
28:06 as soon as possible, so this damage to your
28:09 joints can certainly be able to
28:12 reduce and you can live happily.


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