Tag Archives: Bones

• Healthcare at breaking point

  July 11th, 2012 by Lilian Anekwe

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  Tags: Benefits, Bones, Disease, Economics, Government, Joints, NHS, Productivity, Recession, Treatment, Wellbeing

  Musculoskeletal conditions – the term for more than 200 illnesses affecting the bones and joints, such as arthritis, lower back pain and osteoporosis – threaten to stretch the NHS to breaking point, writes Lilian Anekwe

• Diffusing the time bomb

  July 11th, 2012 by Ellie Broughton

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  Tags: Ageing, Bones, Demographics, Joints, NHS, Obesity, Pain, Public Awareness, Treatment, UK, Wellbeing, Youth

  Joint pain and stiffness are increasingly affecting more people at a younger age, and the number of sufferers is set to soar, as Ellie Broughton discovers

• The big three take their toll

  July 11th, 2012 by Rhiannon Smith

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  Tags: Ageing, Arthritis, Bones, Diet, Disease, Joints, Nutrition, Pain, UK, Wellbeing

  Three of the most commonly occurring musculoskeletal conditions are osteoporosis osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Rhiannon Smith takes a closer look at the “big three”

• ‘We should be catching rabbits and climbing trees’

  July 11th, 2012 by Christian Duffin

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  Tags: Ageing, Bones, Diet, Disease, Exercise, Joints, Nutrition, Obesity, Wellbeing

  An active and healthy lifestyle can help prevent bone and joint complaints, writes Christian Duffin. But, if problems develop, there are still measures which can contain, and even limit, the impact of musculoskeletal conditions