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Article: Managing chronic pain
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2005
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Jody Gardner had joints in her feet removed to reduce the pain and
enable her to walk "more like normal."
She had a hot tub installed at home to supplement the warm-water
exercise she enjoys and needs.
She watches what she eats, exercises regularly and has developed a
close working relationship with her doctor.
When you have chronic pain, as she does, you keep trying things
until something brings relief.
Gardner was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when she was 22;
doctors figure she'd already had it for some time even then. Forty
years later, chronic pain is just one aspect of the woman's active
life. "I do so much better now than I ever did when I was young. I do
know how to manage it," ...