
Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted March 19, 2009
Aditya Mattoo MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
For our first post, I wanted to address the age old belief that changes in the weather can affect arthritis pain. Since the time of Hippocrates, who wrote about the effects of hot and cold winds on people’s health, this topic has been debated. Even Osler suggested in 1892 that arthritis sufferers of wealth vacation in the south to avoid the cold damp weather of …