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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">May is Arthritis Awareness Month. Walk With Ease, Enhance Fitness, and Living Well with Chronic Conditions are proven to help people with arthritis improve function and reduce symptoms, like pain. Attached,
please find a recently released CDC report and an info graphic that can be posted to social media. Here are additional social media messages:
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%">A new @CDCgov report found about half of adults w/ #arthritis and severe joint pain are physically inactive.
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%">Clinicians: Know what resources you can give your #arthritis patients to help them increase their physical activity.
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%">The prevalence of arthritis is highest among American Indian/Alaska Natives.
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%">Physical activity relieves pain, yet almost half of adults w/ arthritis and severe joint pain are physically inactive.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%;color:windowtext">Physical activity is a proven pain-reliever for arthritis. However, almost half (47%) of adults with arthritis and severe joint pain are not physically active. Read more in this week’s MMWR.</span><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%">Arthritis, and severe joint pain and physical in activity among adults with arthritis, were common and ranged widely across states. Arthritis and physical inactivity were more common in rural areas.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%">Healthcare providers can counsel their arthritis patients on how to safely exercise to increase physical activity and ease arthritis pain with few side effects.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#232323">J. Hildegard Hinkel, MPH<br>
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OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY<br>
Public Health Division <br>
Health Promotion & Chronic Disease Prevention<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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