You can leverage walkers
Walkers – just like crutches and canes – can greatly alleviate movement when you have spondylitis flares.
There is not much biological explanation for this other than such walking devices transfer the pressure from your hurting joints (which could be inflamed).
Aside from relief during flares, walkers are beneficial to patients coping with movement handicaps resulting from advanced ankylosing spondylitis. Such walkers play a vital role in gait-retraining therapy, enhancing the walking capacity and stability (in motion) of such patients.
Instagram could help
The beauty of social media is that there is a diverse spectrum of receptive communities online. Take Instagram, for example. There is a vibrant fraternity of spondylitis patients and caregivers there ready to provide relief tips and emotional succor to you anytime
You can identify such communities by using specialized hashtags to access this robust digital support infrastructure when you have flares.
What’s more, the emotional juice of being among “your people” when in an exclusive society of people who have experience with spondylitis. Mentally, this would ramp up your coping capacity, dissipating that notorious feeling of abandonment.
Just as a dessert to round up the dish, you can distract yourself when you have these flares. Fortunately, distraction is no longer a luxury in 2021. Just get online, and there are enough diversions online to distract you for the 24 hours of the day.
From thrilling TikTok videos to Netflix and video gaming on Twitch, there are surplus activities to engage in to take your focus off the pain.
Don’t wait…go through your house to locate what you need to ease spondylitis flare-ups with 5 everyday items within your reach.