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Janet Meydam has been an occupational therapist for 20 years and is licensed in the state of Wisconsin. She has worked in a variety of settings, including inpatient and outpatient hospital, freestanding outpatient clinics, nursing homes, home health care agencies, and sheltered workshops. She was employed at these settings through contract agencies and worked at many of them simultaneously. In 2002, wanting a change of pace, she took a public school position and now ... [More]
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- Arthritis and Cooking
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] The pain and stiffness caused by arthritis can prevent you from cooking your favorite meals and reduce you to eating frozen dinners. This article will give you some helpful advice on how to adapt your cooking techniques to reduce the stress on your joints while still fixing your favorite dishes.
- Fibromyalgia and Energy Conservation
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] As is the case with many chronic pain conditions, one of the most overwhelming symptoms of fibromyalgia is fatigue. This article will describe how you can use energy conservation techniques to reduce fatigue and increase your ability to get more done during your day.
- An Overview of Multiple Sclerosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases-Multiple-Sclerosis] Multiple Sclerosis is an autoimmune disorder in which a person's immune system attacks the structures of the brain and spinal cord. This article will describe this disease in general, easy to understand terms.
- Overview of Fibromyalgia
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Fibromyalgia is a pain disorder that is sometimes related to but not the same as other arthritic conditions. This article will explain fibromyalgia, its symptoms, possible causes, and treatments, in easy to understand language.
- Adaptive Eating Utensils For Rheumatoid Arthritis
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Eating is a task that may be impaired by the upper body deformities caused by rheumatoid arthritis. This article outlines some helpful tips to adapt eating utensils and dishes. People with rheumatoid arthritis can increase their independence during meals by using these methods.
- Exercise With Arthritis
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Exercise is an important part of managing your arthritis. This article gives you some principles to follow to make exercise easier and less painful.
- Arthritis and House Cleaning
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] The pain and stiffness of arthritis often makes completing daily house cleaning difficult. Making some simple changes to your daily cleaning routine, however, can ease the strain on your joints and make household chores less daunting.
- Arthritis and Home Maintenance
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] If you have arthritis, the pain and stiffness involved in completing those home maintenance projects can be overwhelming. This article gives you some techniques to use to keep up with basic home maintenance jobs without putting strain on your joints.
- Arthritis and Clothing
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] The aches and pains of arthritis can interfere with even the simplest of dressing tasks, even if your arthritis is not severe. This article will give some helpful tips on how to change your dressing routine and adapt your clothing choices to accommodate your arthritis, regardless of its severity.
- What is Spondyloarthropathy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Spondyloarthropathy is a diagnosis many arthritis patients receive the first time they visit a doctor. This article gives an overview of what this diagnosis means and why it is often changed as a person's arthritis progresses.
- Arthritis and Joint Protection Techniques
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Most forms of arthritis involve damage to the joints of the body in one form or another, and most forms of arthritis result in permanent deterioration of one or more joints over time. This article discusses techniques that can be used to protect the joins and slow the damage that arthritis causes.
- What is Gouty Arthritis?
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Gouty arthritis, or gout, is a form of arthritis in which uric acid crystals are deposited on the cartilage surrounding a joint, causing pain, swelling and stiffness. This article describes the condition, including symptoms and treatments, in easy to understand language.
- Arthritis and Work Simplification
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] The joint pain and stiffness caused by arthritis can make physical work difficult. This article will give the reader ideas on how to simplify physical work in easy to understand language.
- Arthritis and Energy Conservation
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] One of the most common symptoms of arthritis is fatigue. This article describes some simple energy conservation techniques to help avoid fatigue and stretch your energy throughout your day.
- What is Osteoarthritis?
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and is also known as degenerative joint disease. This article describes the condition, including symptoms and treatments, in easy to understand language.
- What is Arthritis? An Overview
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] The general term "arthritis" refers to a group of diseases that, in one way or another, attack the joints of the body. This article describes a few of the more common forms of arthritis in easy to understand terms.
- Adaptations For Cognitive Changes in Multiple Sclerosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Diseases-Multiple-Sclerosis] Multiple sclerosis can cause cognitive changes in a person's brain as well as the well known physical symptoms. These changes include periods of short term memory loss, periods of disorganized thinking or "brain fog", and difficulty with problem solving and decision making. Adaptations to a person's environment and daily routine can assist in compensating for these changes, to make sure disruption in daily life is minimal. This article will describe some of those adaptations in easy to understand terms.
- Overview of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
[Health-and-Fitness] Chronic fatigue syndrome, also called chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, is a condition in which a person experiences severe symptoms of persistent fatigue and malaise (feeling like one has the flu). This article will provide the reader with an overview of this condition, including symptoms and treatments, in easy to understand language.
- Overview of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
[Health-and-Fitness:Hand-Wrist-Pain] Carpal tunnel syndrome is a nerve compression disorder. It can occur due to repetitive motion at work or at home, or may happen secondary to another condition such as arthritis. This article describes the condition, its causes and treatments, in easy to understand language.
- What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
[Health-and-Fitness:Arthritis] Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic autoimmune disease. The symptoms, causes, and similarities to other forms of arthritis can be confusing. This article describes the disease, including onset, symptoms, and treatments in easy to understand language.
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