Worried about Winter Joint Pain
Pain Management…Your spring in winter Do winters remind you of painful stiff joints and reduced mobility? Do they remind you of the phrase" feeling under the weather"? In the journey of life, one may not even realize when the association of winter shifts from festivities to joint pains. It is not only the joint pains which flare-up, but other pain conditions such as muscular pains, nerve pains, headaches, backaches, fibromyalgia etc may also increase in severity. This problem is not limited to a certain age, with a sedentary lifestyle contributing to the increased incidence across all age-groups. Coping with pain in cold winter months requires extra efforts to avoid the worsening spiral of immobility and increasing pain. Scientific studies exploring the relationship between pain and weather, have had little consensus, regardless, this is commonly observed in clinical practice. One may appreciate that it’s not easy to evaluate the relationship as multip...