Joint problems - Ask the Dr

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Thanks Jodi!!! I will put Hillary's question in the " Ask the Dr "

pile. But I am guessing you are right on the money -- any degree of

asymmetry could certainly be linked later, I am guessing, to hip,

back etc problems, if the person does not have a lift, etc. Good

question!

> Does anyone know if there are any joint problems associated with

RSS?

> I remember being told on several occassions that there was no

> correlation between joint problems and RSS, but the anecdotal

evidence

> seems to suggest otherwise. Do any of you know if Dr. H or Dr.

> Stanhope have looked into this? Or if it's been mentioned in any

of

> the literature? The reason that I'm asking is that I've developed

hip

> pain over the last two years and the doctors want to write it off

as

> RSS related and leave it at that. I have a sneaking suspicion that

> the doctors are taking the easy way out, so to speak, and RSS is an

> easy, convenient scape goat because so little is known about it

> (especially for people my age). On the other hand, quite a few of

the

> RSS adults that I've had contact with seem to have some sort of

joint

> difficulty, so maybe the doctors do know what they're talking

about.

>

> Thanks,

> Hillary

> 21, RSS