Tips on Self Care and Medications

• Tips on Controlling Your Arthritis
• Help in Dealing with Your Physician
• Reducing Drug Side-Effects

Tips on Controlling Your Arthritis

• Have Arthritis, Will Travel
  Melanie J. Harrison, MD, MS
  
• Eating Right with Arthritis: Arthritis Nutrition Faqs
  Laura Allman, RD
  
• Self-Care to Control Your Arthritis
  Rheumatology Division
  
• Coping with the Emotional Impact of Rheumatic Disease
  Angela Hunter, CSW and Roberta Horton, ACSW
  
• How to Travel With Your Arthritis
  Carol Page, PT, CHT
  
• How to Protect Your Joints
  Carol Page and Denyse Hernaez
  
• How to Use Capsaicin
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Learning to Manage Your Stress
  Roberta Horton

Help in Dealing with Your Physician

• A Doctor’s Perspective on Treating Patients with Myositis 
  Adapted from an open discussion with members of the Myositis Support Group of Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lawrence Kagen, MD
  
• Myositis Health Team Panel: Myositis Perspectives, Questions, and Answers 
  Adapted from a panel discussion at the Myositis Support Group of Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lawrence J. Kagen, MD; Angela Hunter, LMSW; Roberta Horton, ACSW, LCSW; Linda Leff, RNC
  
• Myositis Health Team Panel: Four Perspectives on Myositis Care 
  Adapted from a panel discussion at the Myositis Support Group of Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lawrence J. Kagen, MD; Angela Hunter, LMSW; Roberta Horton, ACSW, LCSW; Linda Leff, RNC
  
• Doctor-Patient Communication: An SLE Workshop Support Group Summary 
  Adapted from a presentation at the SLE Workshop
  by Stephen A. Paget, MD, FACP, FACR
  
• Your Own Best Advocate: How to be an Active Participant in Your Care
  Adapted from a talk at The SLE Workshop at Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Lydia Dalley, MA
  
• Doctor/Patient Communication 
  Adapted from a talk at The Myositis Support Group at Hospital for Special Surgery
  by Barbara Mazie, PhD.
  
• Understanding Informed Consent
  Betsy Iger
  

Reducing Drug Side-Effects

• Effects of Lupus and Lupus Medications on Mood 
  Summary of a talk given at The SLE Workshop at Hospital for Special Surgery
  by John W. Barnhill, MD
  
• New Concerns Regarding the Use of Bisphosphonates 
  Linda A. Russell, MD
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of COX-2 Selective Drugs (Types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of NSAIDs (Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents)
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• Guidelines to Help Reduce the Side-Effects of Methotrexate
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP
  
• How to Reduce Corticosteroid Side Effects
  Theodore R. Fields, MD, FACP