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 couldnāt...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 11, 2023 | News, Rheumatoid Arthritis
by Rhianna Boyd āResilientā is one of my absolute favourite words. It means āthe ability to withstand adversity and bounce back from difficult life eventsā such as my own journey of living with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and battling through the mental and physical...
by Arthritis NZ | Jun 13, 2023 | News, Rheumatoid Arthritis
by Dr. Valerie Milne Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a group of disorders that cause progressive scarring of lung tissue. ILDs can be caused by long-term exposure to hazardous materials, or by an auto-immune disease such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). ILDs occur in...
by Arthritis NZ | May 18, 2023 | News, Research, Rheumatoid Arthritis
by Dr Valerie Milne Smoking impacts Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) at all stages of the disease and even its treatment. RA is a chronic autoimmune disease characterised by inflammation in the joints that, when left untreated, can cause irreversible cartilage loss and bone...
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. āIt is so difficult for...
by Arthritis NZ | Oct 13, 2020 | News, Rheumatoid Arthritis
This is What Arthritis Looks Like āArthritis is a debilitating yet mainly invisible disease that robs you of so much in life. It is so hard to explain to people that you feel like shit yet look normal.ā You say āI am fineā all the time when really you are anything but...