21 March 2011

Get ready for Arthritis

Since Arthritis will be our next topic of discussion, I thought we should all be on the same page about it. Though brief, I feel like this video has a good explanation of what Rheumatoid Arthritis is. It is a clinical application of a young girl named Anna, as well as a physiological explanation of what actually occurs in a body with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Some key take away points are:

http://health.discovery.com/videos/body-invaders-rheumatoid-arthritis.html

  • Rheumatoid Arthritis is a systemic disease which begins with a malfunction in the immune system
  • White blood cells normally attack foreign invaders, but in Rheumatoid Arthritis they begin to attack healthy ligaments, tendons, and cartilage especially in the joints
  • The synovium becomes inflamed and releases enzymes which eat away at the joint causing pain
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3 comments:

  1. CaitlinDowMarch 22, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    Thanks for the video, Michelle. This was a nice, brief synopsis of what's going on in the body in RA. It's always a shocker when you learn about a disease, but then to see the people it affects brings it much closer to home. It left a lot of questions and was overly simplified, so I'm really looking forward to learning what the differences between RA and OA are.

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  2. MusicLoverMarch 24, 2011 at 2:54 PM

    Yes thank you for that video. Truthfully because RA was something that did not really catch my attention in the past I did not know a lot about it so this video was a good into in the the problem. Due to the fact that arthritis is in the name in the past I just assumed that this was something that only effect the joints. But after looking up so more info about RA I found that, that was false and just by having RA the whole body will be effected and even more problems that just RA can occur. I am looking foward to learning more about RA in these next two weeks^_^

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  3. CynthiaL495May 4, 2011 at 6:45 PM

    Thank you for posting this video, I really enjoyed this video! I thought that it gave a really good concise synopsis of rheumatoid arthritis and given from the perspective of girl with juvenile arthritis made it a lot more personal. I also previously thought arthritis was a disease that only affected joints and was also a disease mainly of the elderly, but from watching the video I now understand how it is a systemic disease and disease that also affects children too, in fact over 70,000 children in America!

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