New Self-management Program Offers Significant Benefits For Arthritis Patients With Chronic Pain
Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
A new two week program significantly reduces health care visits, pain scores and health distress in arthritis patients with chronic pain. Results were comparable to existing six week self-management programs and the benefits of the program were sustained for six months with improvements continuing up to a year later, according to researchers.