Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter argues that inflammation and joint pain come mostly from sleep, diet, medications, and activity levels, not just aging or genetics. Lifestyle changes can work as well as steroid injections. Medical practice shifts as evidence changes.
Maybe what we did 10 or 15, 20 years ago wasn't so great. So now let's start doing it the better way that we know. The inflammation that comes from the arthritic pain or the injury isn't always just age. It isn't just genetics. It's the lifestyle that we lead. It's how much sleep are we getting at night, it's what's the food that we're eating, what's our medication list that we're doing right, what's our activity level. All of those things together we're seeing in the research supports that fixing each of those little things can be just as effective as that quick little steroid shot that we now know is much more worse for the patients than we thought. And it is the practice of medicine because we're always learning, we're always moving ahead. We always find out that maybe what we did 10 or 15, 20 years ago wasn't so great. So now let's start doing it the better way that we know. And now we have those tools.
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