Eliminating Arthritis Exhaustion (New Study)

As all people with arthritis can testify, their condition is not only painful and disabling, but also exhausting.

Fatigue is an aspect of arthritis that is not commonly discussed or treated, but it is very real.

In a new edition of the journal Arthritis Care & Research, a research team put a simple method to the test and the results on arthritis fatigue were breathtaking.

Best of all, this method is so simple you can start today, and it doesn’t cost you a dime.

They recruited 96 arthritis patients and split them into three groups:

1. One that received standard educational material on arthritis fatigue.
2. A second that received a pedometer and a step-monitoring diary to complete.
3. A third that received a pedometer, a step-monitoring diary to complete, and step targets to meet.

They were monitored for 21 weeks so that the scientists could compare their activity and fatigue levels from before and from after the study.

The researchers were mostly interested in their self-reported fatigue levels, but also asked them to report their disease activity, physical function, pain, and depression.

This is what they found:

1. The education material group decreased their daily steps by 747 steps and their fatigue dropped by 1.6 points on the fatigue questionnaire.

2. The pedometer and step-monitoring group increased their daily steps by 1,441 steps and their fatigue dropped by 3.2 points on the fatigue questionnaire.

3. The pedometer, step-monitoring, and step target group increased their daily steps by 1,656 steps and their fatigue dropped by 4.8 points on the fatigue questionnaire.

Therefore, the group that set itself step targets and monitored their daily steps experienced the largest drop in arthritis-related fatigue.

The latter two groups also reported an improvement in physical functioning and disease activity.

Pedometers are widely available and inexpensive, and you can compile your own step monitoring diaries and set your own step targets.

But why not completely REVERSE your arthritis naturally since it’s possible. That’s what I did following the 3 simple steps found here…