Introduction: Defining rheumatoid arthritis -- The joints and rheumatoid arthritis -- The course and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis -- Diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis: Why so many tests? -- Outside the joints: other signs and symptoms or rheumatoid arthritis -- Lifestyle and coping strategies -- Coping with pain and fatigue -- Coping with emotions -- yours and everyone else's -- Protecting your joints -- Exercise and rheumatoid arthritis -- Specific exercises -- Medications past, present, future -- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) -- Conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (cDMARDs) -- Biotherapies: the biologics, or bDMARDs -- Targeted synthetic DMARDs -- Glucocorticoids -- Alternative and complementary therapies -- Nutrition: Diets, nutrients, and nutritional supplements -- Surgery for rheumatoid arthritis -- Disability benefits, insurance, and other financial matters, Other concerns -- Closing thoughts.
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