How Does Arthritis Affect Society

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While a person could live for a long period of time, it is unavoidable to have changes. Ever since I was young my mother would take me to visit my grandmother during weekends and I enjoyed every moment of it. My grandmother used to buy me pizza and spaghetti for dinner and take me to play in a park nearby her house, I surely love my grandmother. However back then I couldn’t help but notice her painful face whenever she’d sit down or pick up a pencil, she would even take really long to walk up the stairs and sometimes she would also say that her legs hurt a lot after the walk. She used to tell me how she could walk to the shop across town with not a single problem, but now she couldn’t even go up the stairs without help. My curiosity kicked in and I couldn’t help but ask about it one day, I wanted to know what troubled my grandmother so much, but …show more content…
After analyzing all of this articles and the gathered data, it can be inhered that Arthritis is not curable and although it can be treated, there is still a variety of people that continue to be affected with the pain. One can see the huge difference this disease makes on society, people who were able to walk from their house to various stores that were far away can no longer even go up a set of stairs due to this unforgiving disease. The best solution that has been found to fight this issue is the treatment, a person with arthritis must treat this disease because if it is not treated correctly, it will worsen and most likely require to go into surgery. Arthritis, which is a very serious joint disease that is known to cause pain, swelling, stiffness, and most importantly change a person's lifestyle. This chronic disease, although not curable, can be helped through various forms of treatment that may differ depending on the person's symptoms so that the person can prevent this disease from turning their life upside

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