Tips on Self Care and Medications

• Tips on Controlling Your Arthritis
• Help in Dealing with Your Physician
• Reducing Drug Side-Effects

Tips on Controlling Your Arthritis

• Have Arthritis, Will Travel (May 22, 2007)
  Melanie J. Harrison, MD, MS
  
• Eating Right with Arthritis: Arthritis Nutrition Faqs (April 30, 2007)
  Laura Allman, RD
  
• Self-Care to Control Your Arthritis (June 20, 2004)
  Rheumatology Division
  
• Coping with the Emotional Impact of Rheumatic Disease (April 30, 2004)
  Angela Hunter, CSW and Roberta Horton, ACSW
  
• How to Get Back to - and Stick with - Exercise (September 24, 2003)
  Diana Benzaia
  
• How To Use "Laughter Is The Best Medicine" For Your Joints (September 4, 2003)
  Diana Benzaia
  
• How to Travel With Your Arthritis (September 3, 2003)
  Carol Page, PT, CHT
  
• How to Reduce Holiday Arthritis Flares (November 14, 2002)
  Diana Benzaia
  
• Alternative Therapies for Arthritis: The Good, the Bad, and the Useless (September 20, 2002)
  Judith Horstman
  
• How to Protect Your Joints (September 20, 2002)
  Carol Page and Denyse Hernaez
  
• How to Ease Knee Pain without Drugs (September 15, 2002)
  Diana Benzaia
  
• How to Use Capsaicin (September 10, 2002)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• How to Adapt Your Car to Your Arthritis (September 10, 2002)
  Diana Benzaia
  
• Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) and Qigong (Chi Kung) for Health and Well-Being (June 20, 2001)
  Ken Bichel
  
• Learning to Manage Your Stress (March 9, 2000)
  Roberta Horton

Help in Dealing with Your Physician

• A Doctor’s Perspective on Treating Patients with Myositis (October 11, 2007)
  Adapted from an open discussion with members of the Myositis Support Group of Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lawrence Kagen, MD
  
• Myositis Health Team Panel: Myositis Perspectives, Questions, and Answers (January 30, 2006)
  Adapted from a panel discussion at the Myositis Support Group of Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lawrence J. Kagen, MD; Angela Hunter, LMSW; Roberta Horton, ACSW, LCSW; Linda Leff, RNC
  
• Myositis Health Team Panel: Four Perspectives on Myositis Care (January 30, 2006)
  Adapted from a panel discussion at the Myositis Support Group of Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lawrence J. Kagen, MD; Angela Hunter, LMSW; Roberta Horton, ACSW, LCSW; Linda Leff, RNC
  
• Doctor-Patient Communication: An SLE Workshop Support Group Summary (March 29, 2005)
  Adapted from a presentation at the SLE Workshop
  by Stephen A. Paget, MD, FACP, FACR
  
• Your Own Best Advocate: How to be an Active Participant in Your Care (November 23, 2004)
  Adapted from a talk at The SLE Workshop at Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lydia Dalley, MA
  
• Doctor/Patient Communication (July 3, 2003)
  Adapted from a talk at The Myositis Support Group at Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Barbara Mazie, PhD.
  
• Understanding Informed Consent (September 12, 2002)
  Betsy Iger
  
• Questions to Ask Your Physician About Arthritis and Other Disorders (September 9, 2002)
  Diana Benzaia
  
• Myositis: A Neurologist’s Perspective (June 28, 2001)
  Alfred J. Spero, MD

Reducing Drug Side-Effects

• Effects of Lupus and Lupus Medications on Mood (July 26, 2007)
  Summary of a talk given at The SLE Workshop at Hospital for Special Surgery
  by John W. Barnhill, MD
  
• Update on the Bisphosphonates (June 13, 2007)
  Linda A. Russell, MD
  
• Guidelines for Safe Use of IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulin) (September 29, 2003)
  Michael D. Lockshin, MD
  
• Aspirin - Still a "Miracle Drug" - but Caution Required! (June 29, 2003)
  Diana Benzaia
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of COX-2 Selective Drugs (Types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents) (December 23, 2002)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of NSAIDs (Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents) (December 23, 2002)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Sun, Your Arthritis, and Your Medications (December 23, 2002) Diana Benzaia
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of Methotrexate (November 8, 2002)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• How to Reduce Corticosteroid Side Effects (September 20, 2002)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP