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Inflamed joints are more easily injured than joints that are not inflamed. Everyone who has rheumatoid arthritis (RA) must learn how to protect his or her joints with special attention directed toward the joints in the hands and wrists since these are particularly vulnerable to injury during daily activity.
Joint protection involves more than a list of things to do and not to do; it is a philosophy that should be incorporated into one’s daily routine. At first the strategies may seem awkward or inefficient, and having to stop and think about how you move before you move can seem bothersome. With practice, however, these tactics will become routine. Joint protection will become second nature to you.
After your arthritis has improved, you should continue to follow the principles of joint protection. Your reward will be decreased pain and stiffness as well as preservation of the best possible joint function.
An occupational therapist can help you understand these principles of joint protection and help you apply them to your particular situation. Ask your physician to recommend an occupational therapist to you, especially if you’re having difficulty putting these principles into practice.
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Friends and relatives can be a wonderful source of support and inspiration for you. Some of them will show great sensitivity and understanding and will help you through trying times almost instinctively. Other people – most people, in fact – will look to you for direction. You must let them know that you value their friendship and company, and you must show them how they can support you when times are hard. If you must decline a social invitation because of your arthritis, be sure to let people know that you want to be included in future get-togethers.
Friends and relatives can also be a tremendous source of irritation. Remember, there are many, many people who do not know much about RA. Although most people mean well, they may say the wrong thing. Our recommendation is to use private humor as a way to cope with “the dumb comment” or the thoughtless statement. So, when someone makes a dumb comment, think about how you wish you could respond . . . then wait a few seconds . . . and instead make a constructive response to your friend or relative. Here are some ideas:
The should have comment: “You should have exercised more or you wouldn’t have arthritis.”
Think: “You should have gone to charm school.”
Say. “That’s an interesting hypothesis. Although exercise is important, its absence hasn’t been shown to be linked to the development of rheumatoid arthritis.”
The should comment: “You should drink six pints of apricot juice each day to cure your arthritis.”
Think: “You should learn that silence can be golden.” Say: “A balanced diet is very important for all people, including those with rheumatoid arthritis.”
The could have comment: “You should feel lucky, you could have developed cancer.”
Think: “I do feel lucky, you could have been someone whose opinion mattered to me.”
Say: “I do feel good that I have a condition I can cope with successfully.”
The I’ve got a relative with arthritis comment: “My third cousin twice removed has that kind of arthritis and she’s crippled.”
Think: “I wish you were twice removed from me.”
Say: “Did you know that there are more than one hundred types of arthritis? With early treatment and therapy, few people with arthritis today develop serious handicaps.”
The brilliant observer: “Did you know that your hands are swollen?” Think: “Thank you for the brilliant observation, Einstein.”
Say: “Yes, I did. Thank you for your concern.”
The doting relative: “Serve your sister her dinner! Can’t you see she has arthritis?”
Think: “Would you mind chewing and swallowing it for me, too?” Say: “Mom, I appreciate your concern, but I would really like to do the things I can do alone. There will be things I’ll need assistance with in the future, and I’m glad that I can count on all of you for your help.”
Get the idea? You’ll probably be surprised at the type of comment that will pop into your head in these circumstances. Thinking silently of a humorous response is a good way to ventilate your annoyance without alienating the person who makes a thoughtless comment. Remember, most people are trying to be supportive. Be patient and direct them in their efforts. Do not get angry or hurt. Use your energy to educate them about RA so that they don’t continue making senseless comments.
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Newspapers, books, television news, radio talk shows, and medical newsletters all report that CMO is nothing less than a revolutionary breakthrough.

The Mark Scott Show, WXYT Radio in Detroit, provides us with these quotes: “Hang on folks, because if you haven’t heard this before, it certainly is going to be an eye-opener for you … Amazing is not the word for it… CMO gets to the source of the problem. It actually stops the arthritic process.”

The Don Bodenbach Show, KCEO Radio in San Diego gives us these quotes: “It may be what we consider almost a miracle cure for arthritis, and the form of arthritis doesn’t matter … What is more impressive is once you undergo the appropriate treatment… you are in most cases free from arthritis symptoms forever.”

The Nature of Health magazine, September 1996 titled its article, “Stop Arthritis Now! The Amazing Story of CMO” It said, “CMO is a natural substance and is considered an immunomodulator. The reason for the enormous interest is the effect of CMO on both rheumatoid and osteoarthritis … The results of CMO are so impressive that nothing that mainstream or natural medicine has to offer can come close to the dramatic reversals in arthritis that have been observed … The link between CMO and arthritis was discovered at the National Institutes of Health … Standard medical treatment is aimed at symptomatic relief of pain and inflammation and has shown to actually accelerate the disease process … In contrast, the CMO protocol works rapidly and does not need to be continued in the vast majority of cases.”

The Senior Citizens Reporter recounts: “CMO is not a conventional product. It’s unlike anything that’s existed before for arthritis … it’s an immunomodulator, which does not treat the symptoms, but instead corrects the cause of arthritis. CMO acts to normalize or correct the immune function that has gone awry, and that literally halts the arthritic process. Once the destructive process stops the body can heal itself, eliminating inflammation, stiffness, and pain.”

The Military Press reports: “T-cells incite macrophages to attack the body’s own cartilage … macrophages [are] like garbage collectors inside your body. Their job is to get rid of any foreign matter and organisms they encounter … and they clean up waste matter as well. That includes any fragments of unhealthy cartilage damaged by some physical trauma or produced by some invading organism like that which causes rheumatic fever … In the case of arthritis, regardless of whether it’s rheumatoid or osteo, once macrophages have dealt with some particles of cartilage they develop a chemical message that’s passed on to the memory T-cells … [which] develop a program instructing more and more macrophages to dispose of more and more cartilage. Unfortunately, that program doesn’t distinguish between healthy and unhealthy cartilage. So the onslaught against your joints begins … CMO acts to normalize the programs in the memory

T-cells that are directing the macrophage attacks against the cartilage and the joints. Thus it intervenes in the arthritic process itself regardless of whether it is osteo or rheumatoid. Once the arthritic process is halted and the macrophage attacks are stopped, the body’s own healing mechanisms can deal with the inflammation, and its resulting pains soon disappear as well. The effects seem to be permanent.”

The West Coast Jewish News reports: “CMO successfully intervenes in both the osteo and rheumatoid arthritic process. The proof that CMO is acting as a modulator is demonstrated by the fact that subjects with hypertension [high blood pressure] and others with hypotension [low blood pressure] have both seen their blood pressures normalize as a result of taking CMO. This normalization effect also frequently affects blood sedimentation rates [of lupus patients] as well as insulin requirements in diabetics.”

The media in Europe are gradually also waking up to CMO.

In April 2000, Womans Own, a British magazine devoted a whole page to the story of eleven year old girl under the title 7 thought only older people got arthritis”. The magazine reports on the wonderful and long lasting improvement this young girl got after CMO therapy.

In Norway, Scandinavia, the top selling and highly respected magazine, Hjemmet, reported on its front cover, the sensational headline: “New natural find removes arthritis”. What followed was a two page spread inside the magazine reporting on CMO, and how a Norwegian school teacher who had to stop teaching as he could not lift his hand because of his arthritis. After CMO therapy, his improvement was such that he could go back to teaching and fishing!

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