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10 Ways To Care For Your Mental Wellbeing During The Holidays
Family Manage family time When people expect too much, be assertive. Say NO! Ask family to help wherever possible Give troublesome people a task Money Budget Avoid temptation Help children to be...
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How to have Better Sex and Intimacy if you have Arthritis
Sex and intimacy can be a sensitive subject for many people, and having any form of arthritis can add more complexities and inhibitions to your intimate relationship. We know from your feedback that...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccination in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis and Related...
Arthritis New Zealand-New Zealand Rheumatology Association position statement Studies published to date have not shown that the use of oral disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and...
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Thriving Despite the Pandemic: 6 Tips for Daily Life
Article by Jennifer Scott from SpiritFinder.org Many life-altering moments have happened, thanks to the coronavirus. The pandemic and the accompanying recession have had a significant impact, but...
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The Truth About Self-Management
We know that the idea of self-management can sometimes be confusing. For some, it sounds like you are on your own living with a long-term condition like arthritis. This is not true. Self-management is...
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What are complementary and alternative therapies, and how can they help you?
This article is based on the information in a webinar presented by Jo Clarke, a Naturopath at Blackmores. The views in this article may not be those held by Arthritis New Zealand. First of all, it...
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Why is it Important to be a Healthy Weight Before Joint Replacement Surgery?
Many people get told by a health professional that they need to lose weight before they can have joint replacement surgery. All too often we have found that many people are not told, or do not...
View ArticleAdvice from a Physio About Hip and Knee Arthritis
Arthritis Educator Cathie Dowell spoke with Physiotherapist Sarah Tulloch about all things hip and knee arthritis. Sarah Tulloch has been a physiotherapist for more than 15 years, and for the past 10...
View ArticleOsteoarthritis – Live Well and Plan for the Future
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. It is more common as we age but can also affect younger age groups. Osteoarthritis can affect any joint but is most common in hips, knees, hands,...
View ArticleUnderstand the NZ Health System in a Nutshell
Understanding our health system can be confusing and frustrating. In New Zealand there are over 700,000 people living with over 100 different kinds of arthritis, across all age groups – children,...
View ArticleTips For Gaining And Maintaining A Healthy Weight
Why is it important to be a healthy weight? Being a healthy weight can lower your risk and or help manage many long-term health conditions, including arthritis. Your general wellbeing, including your...
View ArticleWhat Is Autoimmune Arthritis?
Autoimmune arthritis is the name given to arthritis conditions where a person’s immune system attacks itself. This causes inflammation including in the joints creating pain, fatigue, joint swelling,...
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Increasing Evidence Of The Therapeutic Potential of Medicinal Cannabis
by Dr Richard Griffiths, Research Manager, Arthritis New Zealand Our September 2020 edition of Joint Support (pages 6 and 7) included an overview of the benefits and risks associated with the...
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10 July 2021 – Taupuni Hao Huatau Kaikōiwi Osteoarthritis Basecamp
This one-day osteoarthritis symposium will bring together clinicians from all disciplines, health delivery organisations, consumers and researchers with a particular interest in managing...
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Joseph’s Tips For Using Gout Arthritis Medicine
Joseph Siaki Godinet, aged 70, has been living with gout arthritis for the last 32 years. For more than 16 years, the strength and resilience of his ‘aiga’ have helped him manage his gout plan by...
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Ola malolo osteoarthritis – You can live well with osteoarthritis
A story from Zechariah, who has learned to how to live well with Osteoarthritis. Talofa ‘aiga! Samoan Language Week, so we are enjoying celebrating Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa with you this week! Talofa!...
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Get Gout Arthritis Under Control – Teariki Tuiono
Teariki Tuiono Living with Gout Arthritis “Gout is a serious condition and I recommend everyone, particularly Māori and Pāsifika men to take immediate steps to avoid any long-term injury to their...
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Three-Quarters of People Surveyed Want Access to Medicinal Cannabis
The recent Arthritis New Zealand Medicinal Cannabis Survey revealed that consumers are keen to participate in future clinical trials which involve medicinal cannabis. Consumers ultimately want to...
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More Than Half Of People With Arthritis ‘Always’ Have Pain – Latest Survey
Arthritis New Zealand published an online survey shared on social media on people’s experience of pain to help us better understand arthritis pain and develop more resources to help people manage...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis, more than just stiff joints and pain
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...
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