Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD

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Another Way Exercise Helps Rheumatoid Arthritis

Posted on October 06, 2008

A study described in Medline news seemed to give mysterious theories about strangely different body composition distribution of people with rheumatoid arthritis. What is this mysterious change? The people with the hardest time getting around had increasing amounts of fat and decreasing amounts of lean mass (skeletal muscle) on the arms and legs. The authors of the study theorized that the... ...

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arthritis , body composition , exercise , rheumatoid arthritis