ORACLE ::: THE LAST WORD
Making life easier
DR LYNNE GOODACRE: easy to grip and help to pull more they get used to putting
z Morning stiffness can make buttons through the button up with things. But it’s important
getting dressed more hole. A simple dressing stick to for patients to work with their
challenging. Having a warm help bring items such as pants GP and secondary care doctor
shower before getting dressed and trousers into reach, or to to optimise their condition.
can help to relieve this. push straps off the shoulders So contact your doctor if you
can be made from a piece of notice you are having prolonged,
z V-neck T-shirts or jumpers are dowling with a plastic-coated poorly-controlled discomfort,
often easier to get on than cup hook screwed into the end. stiffness, or joint swelling. In
round-necked ones. And a range of products are other words, something that
available to help put on socks lasts more than a few days, that
z Consider using gadgets to help and tights. is having an impact on your
you get dressed and undressed quality of life, particularly
more easily. PROF. PETER TAYLOR: impacting on the way you look
z Don’t put on a brave face for and feel about yourself, and that
These include button hooks – too long. The longer people you can’t regulate with your
their large handles make them with RA have the disease the medication.
With special thanks to . . .
The models: You Magazine: Marks and Spencer
Rosie Buttery Sarah Stacey, (www.marksandspencer.com)
Mary Cowern Health Editor Pia (www.piajewellery.com)
Dan Fielding Red Direct (www.reddirect.co.uk)
Andy Fiolet
www.arthritiscare.org.uk
Kate Llewelyn
Sinead O’Connell,
Prof. Peter Taylor
Toni Neufville
Fashion Stylist
Prof. Rob Moots
Dr Lynne Goodacre
Charlotte Murphy, Charlotte
Eve George
Murphy Photography
Emma Spike
The development and printing
of this guide is sponsored by
Tony James and Oonagh Connor,
Lesley Drummond at John Frieda
Roche Products Ltd
make-up artists from
Joy Goodman
ORACLE was edited, designed and produced by Crozier Associates Ltd in conjunction with Reynolds-MacKenzie
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