Viruses and asthma, osteoarthritis, cartilage repair
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr Mark Porter dispels myths about osteoarthritis. It is usually put down to ageing and the result of wear and tear with people told that the condition inevitably leads to surgery. Mark Porter investigates the latest research on the condition and discovers that a third of patients will get better through the natural repair process.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC |
| 0:04.6 | podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like |
| 0:09.9 | Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen, |
| 0:15.0 | and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan. |
| 0:19.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:34.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello and welcome to Inside Health in today's program, dispelling myths around arthritic |
| 0:40.7 | knees. I'll be finding out why it's not aware and tear condition that inevitably leads to surgery. |
| 0:46.5 | Indeed, in many people, it actually gets better. But first, you have to ignore conventional |
| 0:51.5 | wisdom that rest is best. I did feel very isolated about arthritis and a bit embarrassed really because I know it's a terrible |
| 1:00.4 | sort of conception to have is that it happens to old people and I thought, well, I'm sort of late |
| 1:05.7 | 20s, early 30s when I was first diagnosed with it and it's great that it's coming out more the open, that you don't just have to live with it. You can do things and that there are ways around it. You don't just have to stop and sit on the sofa. And for those whose knees don't heal themselves, I'll be visiting a team of researchers who are at the vanguard in the search for the Holy Grail of the arthritis world, a technique that will allow doctors |
| 1:28.4 | to replace damage cartilage, and they're getting close. But first, we go behind the headlines. |
| 1:35.8 | Cripling viral infections cause asthma. At least that's how this week's story appeared on the BBC |
| 1:40.7 | website and others. Inside Health's Margaret McCartney, has been digging deeper. |
| 1:45.1 | Margaret, it's quite a scary headline. |
| 1:46.6 | Yeah, I agree. |
| 1:47.2 | I think it was a very alarming headline. |
| 1:48.9 | It was crippling viral infections, cause asthma, |
| 1:51.4 | viral infections and newborns cripple, |
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