{"id":6879,"date":"2013-01-18T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2013-01-16T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T16:40:49","slug":"the-true-cost-of-arthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2013\/01\/18\/the-true-cost-of-arthritis\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Cost of Arthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/suffering_arthritis.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"suffering_arthritis\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/suffering_arthritis.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/suffering_arthritis-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>A report recently published in The Lancet (December, 2012) highlighted the global impact of arthritis and other musculo-skeletal conditions and the cumulative impact is devastating.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the report also acknowledged that disability can be prevented using already-available treatments and preventions, the sheer size of the problem worldwide shows that not enough resources or attention are focused on getting control of it.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report published in the Lancet has pulled the veil off the global impact of arthritis and other musculo-skeletal conditions, highlighting the myriad costs with which practically every nation and culture in the world is fighting.<\/p>\n<p>The report looked at economic, mental, emotional, and mortality costs, among other markers.<\/p>\n<p>Osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, back pain, and related bone and joint issues account for the greatest impact of disability-related claims worldwide, when looking at cost of workplace productivity and insurance claims.<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that the greatest contributing conditions to the crisis are low back pain, neck pain and osteoarthritis.<\/p>\n<p>End your battle with <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/01\/16\/arthritis-guide\/\">arthritis naturally, without drugs, in just 3 weeks\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/06\/03\/neck-pain-no-more\/\">Neck pain can be eliminated easily with these simple exercises\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report recently published in The Lancet (December, 2012) highlighted the global impact of arthritis and other musculo-skeletal conditions and the cumulative impact is devastating. Even though the report also acknowledged that disability can be prevented using already-available treatments and preventions, the sheer size of the problem worldwide shows that not enough resources or attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arthritis","category-articles"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/suffering_arthritis.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}