healthy joints for life by richard diana

Weight is a major problem, and it is imperative that I lose weight. I also plan on consulting a nutritionist to help plan a new dietary program.

People should consult their doctor before doing any of the things in this book, particularly the supplements. There are fats and proteins that are joint-healthy, and he provides an eight-week program to get people moving while reducing the pain. There are good carbs and bad carbs, just like there’s good fat and bad fat. The body breaks down food into three groups: fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Diana says that joint pain can be controlled through weight loss, eating the right foods, and taking supplements. I was overwhelmed, but nonetheless struggled through. The book gives way too much information on the science on how the joints and the body work, at least for me. He was an NFL player and has a lot of experience with joint pain, which he has been researching for years. Nothing that was given to her would aleviate the pain, and he watched her world get smaller and smaller as she became crippled and not able to do much of anything.

Richard Diana is an orthopedic surgeon who watched his mother suffer for years from rheumatoid arthritis. On top of this, the orthopedic surgeon I saw told me that my ankles are not very flexible they flex one way but not the other, and though he didn’t call my ankles abnormal (which I do), he did say that because the ankle flexes only one way, the tendon has been jerked on the one side since I started walking, which is why the bone spurs formed in the first place.įrankly, I’ve been lost and angry. If this were true, my joints should have been aching like this since my 20s, and it is only within the past five years that my heels (and feet) have begun to ache. My doctor thinks that it is from rheumatoid arthritis, which I have being diagnosed with having. I’ve had bone spurs on both heels of my feet since my 20s, and within the past several years they have begun to ache. This book has a lot to offer people with joint pain. Library of Congress Classification: RC932 Publication Information: New York: Harlequin, 2013 Title: Healthy Joints for Life: an Orthopedic Surgeon’s Proven Plan to Reduce Pain and Inflammation, Avoid Surgery and Get Moving Again

Healthy joints for life by richard diana