Tag: rheumatology

How to Treat Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis with Exercise

April 4, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 1 Comment

Arthritis Community Concerns

March 21, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 1 Comment

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Information for Rheumatic Disease Patients | Johns Hopkins Rheumatology

March 17, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

(relaxed upbeat music) – We’re here today to talk about coronavirus, or in this particular case, COVID-19. We’re gonna answer some frequently asked questions that we’ve been getting from our patients. The CDC came out with guidelines for people at higher risk of getting very sick from the COVID-19. Should we consider people with rheumatic …

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Does This Patient Have Hip Osteoarthritis?

March 8, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

>>Plain radiographs are a standard test to diagnose hip osteoarthritis. But four in five patients who have radiographic evidence of osteoarthritis are asymptomatic. This video illustrates how to perform an informative hip examination, which can help clinicians avoid unnecessary imagining and provide important information about the clinical significance of findings of osteoarthritis on hip x-rays. …

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Does Running Cause Arthritis? What Research Says – Explained In 6 Minutes

February 29, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

Hi guys this is Alex from the Bodyfit Physiotherapy clinic in Howick and Pakuranga and from the Growing Younger team Now the question I’m being asked a lot by my patients particularly patients over the age of 40 Is running really bad for your joints? Does running actually give you arthritis? Does it cause more …

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Meet Rheumatologist Vaidehi Chowdhary, MBBS, MD, DM

January 18, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

– So usually we treat people with musculoskeletal problems, joint pains, or autoimmune conditions. Most of them are conditions like lupus, vasculitis, and different types of arthritis. What’s unique about rheumatology is it still depends a lot on what the patients are telling us. So part of the problem is a lot of our patients …

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Polymyositis Overview : Johns Hopkins Myositis Center

January 14, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 1 Comment

(dramatic music) – So polymyositis literally means many muscles inflamed. Poly meaning many, myo muscle and itis inflammation. That term has really developed over time as our understanding grew. In years past it was appreciated to be inflammation in the muscles and over time I think we’ve realized that that turned out to be a …

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Vasculitis – An Overview

January 14, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 39 Comments

FEMA this is Eric Strong from Stanford University and today are we talking about vasculitits. After watching this video you should be able to define vasculitis. Describe typical features suggesting vasculitis describe the modern classification system of vasculitis and most importantly identify a probable vasculitis. in a patient with atypical presentation 0 this video will …

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Medical Myth – Active people cannot get osteoarthritis. 1

January 13, 2020 / Greg Ramirez / 0 Comments

Osteoarthritis is a very common condition especially as we all age and it’s likely that people active and inactive are susceptible to getting osteoarthritis.

Medical Myth – Rheumatoid arthritis is rare and mostly affects the elderly. 1