Talk:Arthritis
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Can someone put the history of arthritis in? If someone knows about it.
I've put a lot of stuff in, but this is just the beginning. The main question is whether or not to break up the various arthritis types, ditch the redirects, and use this page only as some sort of a disambiguation container.
Your views please, and some more data. Jfdwolff 21:30, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Finally, I've had the kishkes (Yiddish: guts) to split this horrible article into subarticles, which makes editing it less forbidding. Any external links that purport arthritis treatments will meet with a lot of resistance from me - if the person adding the link can't even distinguish between different arthritis types their links are not worthy of inclusion. JFW | T@lk 02:04, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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- Interesting, because this link is heading to that direction. Promising treatment. They do however provide more information. like the paragraph below. " Cartilage contains a crucial component called aggrecan, which functions like a shock absorber, helping the tissue bear load and resist compression." [1]
- If you read that article, you see that it is another health journalist blabbering. Aggrecanase-2 inhbition is doubted as being efficatious by Dr Devey. Just wait until more research is published. Not every BBC Health article belongs in Wikipedia. JFW | T@lk 06:21, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Spelling
"All arthritides feature pain. Patterns of pain differ among the arthridities and the location." Is it arthritides or arthridities? The Real Walrus 15:13, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Treatment
A few days ago, I was talking to a reflexologist, and they were talking about treatments for long-term ailments that the Amish used. They visited an Amish woman with arthiritis, who was no allowed to take medicine or have surgery for her Arthiritis. She said that she would rid herself of the pain by taking off her shoes and socks and standing on metal plates, and that it had something to do with electrical charges in the nervous system. Can anyone validate or elaborate this?--ikiroid | (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm. The Amish would regard TENS as awfully newfangled and equally forbidden. JFW | T@lk 21:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Links
Is the Arizona Arthritis Centre link being kept or not? I don't wnat it turning into a slow edit war Adam Slack 11:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] healthyjoints.com link
I think that a link should be added at the bottom of the arthritis page to healthyjoints.com. Healthy Joints is an online support group and informational exchange for people with an interest in arthritis and other joint problems. It would be a great resource for anyone on the arthritis page.
Here's a link to the site: [2]
Thanks, Daphne Daphne90210 01:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- My opinion - it doesn't pass WP:EL, the external link guidelines. The content on the site is pretty shallow. Much of it is just links to other sites like http://www2.ejbjs.org. One page is basically a bunch of links back to Wikipedia: http://www.healthyjoints.com/resources/term-glossary.php. Linking to forums is strongly advised against, and in this case there are maybe 1 or 2 posts. Really not a notable site and it seems like it gets mosts of its useful content from other sites. Plus, linking a general site on an article about a specific subject is advised against. (By the way, this link was also proposed on the Hip replacement and Knee replacement pages as well. I'll post these comments there as well.) Nposs 03:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
