by Arthritis NZ | Feb 8, 2023
It is hard to get going when I am in pain We empathise entirely. A few helpful tips follow: Plan your exercise when your pain management medication is most effective. Run a movie in your mind seeing yourself exercising as you plan to, and then conjure up the feeling...
by Arthritis NZ | Jul 8, 2024 | News, Nutrition, Rheumatoid Arthritis
Ane* has Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and was looking for additional lifestyle modifications she could make alongside her clinical treatment plan to manage her symptoms. She reached out to us at Arthritis NZ wanting to know more about the Paddison Program as she couldn’t...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 6, 2023 | Arthritis FAQs, News
by Tracey Kellett The breath and stress: when we are responding to stress, our breathing pattern changes and becomes shallow and quick, and our shoulders take over from the diaphragm to move air in and out of our lungs. This style of breathing disrupts the balance of...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 13, 2021 | How We Help, News, Rheumatoid Arthritis
As a long term donor and one of our social media followers, Cliff says he finds the comments from people living with Arthritis (on the Arthritis New Zealand Facebook page) interesting and, in some cases, troubling in that people are suffering. “It is so difficult for...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 11, 2021 | How We Help, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, News
It’s said that when you live with arthritis, your family lives with it too. They may not experience the pain and fatigue first-hand like you do, but it’s natural for them to struggle with the unwanted changes arthritis brings and grieve the things you’ve lost as a...
