Doing the laundry, preparing dinner, mopping floors and other routine chores can seem overwhelming when you suffer from arthritis pain and stiffness. But you can find ways to accomplish these and other tasks by "changing your mindset," says Elaine Husni, MD, MPH, vice chair of Cleveland Clinics Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases and director of the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Treatment Center at the Orthopaedic & Rheumatologic Institute. "When you develop a chronic illness like arthritis, you have to change your mindset to change the way youve been doing things. That can be hard because people get used to doing things in a certain way.
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