#985: Show- Joint Pain Causes and Solutions

Show Topic: Joint Pain Causes and Solutions

Co-Hosts:  Judy Gaman, Walter Gaman, Mark Anderson

Guest: No Guest  

Segment 1:

Joint pain is a widespread symptom through the world. There are several reasons you can have pain in the joints, but today we’ll focus on osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, bursitis, sprains, and strains.

• Discuss the differences between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
• How each is diagnosed
• Treatments for each
• Preventative measures
• Prognosis
• When intervention is necessary – how hip and knee replacement have changed over the years.

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Segment 2:

Today’s focus is all on your joints. Coming up, we’ll continue our discussion, focusing on Gout, Bursitis, strains, and sprains

 

Immortal minute

 

• Gout – what is it
• Gout – how to treat it
• Gout – how to prevent it
• Bursitis – what is it
• Bursitis – how to treat it
• Bursitis – how to prevent it
• Inflammation in joints from conditions like Lyme’s and Lupus

Coming up- Strains and Sprains

Segment 3:

Today’s show is all about your joints.

• Strain – what is it
• Common cause – over use, repetitive motions
• Strain – common types
• Strain – treatments and prognosis
• Sprain vs Strain
• Common causes of Sprains – injury related
• Sprains – treatments – ICE not heat
• Sprain – prognosis

Segment 4:

Medical Mania Trivia – Jeff

1. At what week does the first heart cell start to beat in an unborn child? (4 weeks)
2. True or False. More education lowers your risk for heart disease. (True)
3. Vegetarian diets go way back. When was the first recorded study on the health benefits of the vegetarian diet? (600 BC – Book of Daniel – now commonly referred to the Daniel Diet)
4. True or False. Cancer of the heart is rare. (True. Heart cells actually stop dividing early on in life.)
5. Most adults have how many teeth. A.) 24 B.) 30 C.) 32 (32)

Open discussion

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LAST WEEKS RIDDLE WAS: I have 4 fingers and a thumb, but not a breath do I take. What am I?   A. A glove

This week’s riddle: I have two arms, two legs and can dance around. Light makes me appear but if it shines directly on me I will die.    

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