You know thatenacting all those self-care tipswill help you feel better, but sometimes it’s so hard to do what you need to. We asked our readers and followers “What do you know you SHOULD do for your arthritis, but it’s just so hard?” Here are their answers.
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当你在辛苦工作一天后需要提神、帮助放松，或者在工作时分散注意力时，听点音乐。
Music activates your limbic system, the “emotional brain,” which controls emotions, memories and the senses. Music triggers the release of chemicals that can influence your sleep cycles, moods and other factors that contribute to a range of physical and emotional benefits.
Yes, you can reap all the benefits from your inflammation-fighting fish oil supplements without the fishy taste.
Don’t let yourfish oil supplements在厨房的架子上逗留，因为它会引起鱼的打嗝。Follow these five tips to minimize this unpleasant problem and still get your helping of omega-3 essential fatty acids:
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研究人员同意这一观点——冥想可以帮助解决许多健康问题。图森市亚利桑那关节炎中心主任大卫·e·尤科姆医学博士说:“通过专注于呼吸来放松和平静你的心灵，可以减少压力——甚至是关节炎爆发带来的压力。”他和其他人的研究发现，冥想的患者面对压力时心率降低，免疫功能增强;冥想与传统药物相结合，似乎对慢性疼痛患者有帮助。研究表明，冥想抑制或缓解疼痛感。在2015年4月发表在美国疼痛医学学会科学期刊上的一项研究中，43名使用正念冥想项目作为他们疼痛管理的一部分的患者体验到更低的焦虑和抑郁，更好的精神生活质量(心理健康)，更强的疼痛控制感，以及更高的疼痛接受度。
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Meditation includes many different practices of focused thinking and relaxation and studies show it can help people with arthritis. No matter what technique you choose, the goal is to improve coping strategies for pain and reduce symptoms like stress and anxiety. Maybe you’ve even tried it – but two minutes felt like two hours and after each 20-minute session, the result was the same: You created a mental to-do list and had a sore behind. You’re not alone.
“We are so used to multitasking that we find it difficult to sit down and turn off our thoughts,” explains Scott Zashin, MD, a rheumatologist and clinical assistant professor of internal medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas. “Meditation is not a quick fix; it takes time.”
你可能听说过欧米伽-3脂肪酸，尤其是如果你有炎症性关节炎。它们有助于减少全身的炎症，一些研究表明对心脏健康、大脑功能和糖尿病有好处。
在我们的饮食中有两种主要的ω -3脂肪酸。一种是α -亚麻酸(ALA)，另一种是二十碳五烯酸(EPA)和二十二碳六烯酸(DHA)。人体会将ALA部分转化为EPA和DHA。
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), fish oil (EPA and DHA) is the most commonly used dietary supplement in the United States. A study published in theAnnals of Rheumatic Diseasein 2013, found that when a high-dose fish oil supplement is added to so-called triple therapy forrheumatoid arthritis(methotrexate, sulfasalazine and hydroxychloroquine), patients achieved better outcomes: they were far less likely to “fail” treatment and twice as likely to reach remission than those who did not take a supplement.
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