A ready grabber tool would help
Spondylitis flares are commonly accompanied by significant stiffness in your upper body and hip. This severely restricts your ability to move. In such situations, bending down to pick stuff can be unnerving. But you really don’t have to.
You can adapt any long item or stick in your house into a grabber tool (if you don’t have mechanical reachers). All you have to do is integrate a clip at the end of that elongated device (therein the stick).
With such a tool optimized for grabbing, all you need to do is royally stretch your “staff” and pick your desired item, saving you painful movements, especially when have to bend to retrieve items from the floor.
A warm bath could do the magic
There are really few things warm water can’t do. Fortunately, relieving spondylitis manages to stay off the exempted list.
Immersing yourself in warm water – say in a hot water tub – significantly enhances blood flow through the pain site, particularly around the stiffened muscles.
More than that, such complete immersion also enhances the dispersion of toxins (or lactic acid) from such constricted muscles. What you get are well-loosened muscles and consequently reduced pain during such spondylitis flares.
It is no secret that spondylitis patients struggling with morning stiffness readily resort to a warm shower bath. Take note that complete immersion in hot water tubs is not advisable for those with diabetes.
Pregnant women and high blood pressure patients should also abstain from this hot tub relief therapy for spondylitis flares.