by Arthritis NZ | Oct 15, 2021 | How We Help, News, Psoriatic Arthritis
One of the messages that every arthritis sufferer wants to get across is that the disease is so much more than inconvenient aches and pains or something you get when you’re old. Brad Boult is only 55 years old and lives with psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 14, 2020 | News, Psoriatic Arthritis
This is What Arthritis Looks Like Hannah is only 39 years old and has trouble accepting her Psoriatic Arthritis diagnosis because she feels too young and fit to have Arthritis. This is a real misconception about Arthritis! It does not only affect people over 65 years...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 30, 2019 | Psoriatic Arthritis
“Every arrow is a victory over the chronic pain and stiffness”. The words of a young man reduced to pain and confusion. A man whose health took a turn for the worst when he was in the prime of his fitness life. Justin Verrall was highly athletic at the age...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 3, 2019 | Psoriatic Arthritis
Twenty-year-old Jared McOnie of Wellington says he thought he reached a point of no return in April this year when the pain caused by psoriatic arthritis was relentless. “I guess I started getting small symptoms in my mid-teens when I’d get occasional back and hip...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 3, 2019 | Psoriatic Arthritis
At the young age of 43 last year, Andrew Smyth got diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. The diagnosis hit him like a bolt of lightning. “I thought arthritis was what old people get. Surely 43 isn’t old enough, let alone 36, when my symptoms first started to appear”....
