Exercise, certainly doing range of motion exercises is okay. Strengthening exercises should be reserved for patients when they are inactive. When you When we want to try and control disease, again we ve talked about the medications for the control of pain. For control of disease we can use some of the same medications, the salicylates and the non-steroidals. They tend to be adequate only for a small percentage of patients and usually those with fairly mild disease.
Steroids do a great job in making people feel better.
They make people feel so well, they don t ever want to give them up. Unfortunately it becomes a real problem trying to get the steroids decreased or discontinued. They may feel great but the destructive process continues. We all know about the toxicities of steroids. Well, we learned a lot about steroid toxicity.