5 Effective Ways to Manage Arthritis Pain

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Man holding squishy ball to relieve arthritis pain

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First, What Causes Arthritis?

Arthritis is a condition that causes swelling around your bones and joints, often resulting in severe pain. It can also cause cartilage breakdown, which can make your bones break easily.

There are two types of arthritis: osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis is one of the most common types because it’s based on age. It develops due to repetitive usage of certain joints. Rheumatoid arthritis forms because your immune system keeps attacking your healthy body tissue. Because of this, the tissue will start to break down.
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Corporate Behavior and Rising Health Care Costs

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TheCorporation

Click the image to watch the 1:51 trailer on YouTube.

Reforming our broken healthcare system, and sadly recovering from the pandemic, depends on fixing our political system and the extreme inequality and corporate greed that makes it so corrupt.

As I’ve learned, this underlies nearly every other issue voters will consider in the November 2020 election. Beyond just healthcare and how to deal with a global pandemic, political corruption also affects economic policy, the environment, the judicial system, immigration, religious liberty, racial relations, fair trade, public education, infrastructure, gun safety, and so much more. 

I originally wrote this article to highlight The Corporation, an important documentary about how the modern corporation behaves in today’s society, but I’m republishing today preceded by new information.

 

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COVID-19 Pandemic is the Biggest MegaTrend of All, and Baddest

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The Covid-19 pandemic is the biggest mega trend of all

The coronavirus pandemic adds new perspective to an article I read in Inc. I responded to 4 MegaTrends Expected to Change Everything by 2050 to say the COVID-19 pandemic is the Biggest MegaTrend of All, and Baddest. It has significant social, economic, and political implications, and the impact will likely be profound, broad, and very rapid. Here at Modern Health Talk, I’ve published other articles on healthcare megatrends with my unique perspective as a retired IBM technologist, market strategist, and futurist, including 101 MiniTrends in Health Care. I sure hope I’m right in my predictions here.

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CONTAIN THE PANDEMIC with common sense and social distancing

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CONTAINING THE PANDEMIC with common sense and social distancing

Please help contain the pandemic with these 13 common sense points to consider before prematurely sending people back to work to save the economy.

1) TRUST EXPERTS – When grading public policy, listen to the Epidemiologists, Immunologists, and Public Health experts more than doctors, doctors more than journalists, and journalists more than politicians. And trust only those who are trustworthy, not those with a selfish motive or history of telling lies. Read More …

Demographic Trends Exacerbate Economic, Political & Healthcare Trends

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Demographic Trends Exacerbate Economic, Political & Healthcare Trends, including increasing Cost of Living and decreasing Wages

The typical female worker has an even harder time than the typical male worker affording housing, healthcare, transportation, and college for a family of four. (Andy Kiersz/Business Insider)

As Robert Reich says, “Decades of stagnant wages, coupled with skyrocketing costs of living and failed trickle-down policies, have created a middle class in crisis.” Record unemployment numbers mean absolutely nothing to families with no savings and struggling to get by. The next time you hear President Trump boast about the “best economy ever”, know the truth.

Exacerbating the economic, political and healthcare trends is an aging population with fewer young people getting married and raising families. Who will be left in the workforce to pay taxes and support the elderly when they retire? Read More …