Arthritis and musculoskeletal pain can affect many areas of the body:<\/p>\n
Pain that is felt in the upper part of the spine is common and is rarely due to serious disease. Staying active will help you get better faster and prevent more problems.<\/p>\n
Pain that is felt in the shoulder area, at the top of the arm, is common and is rarely due to serious disease. Staying active will help you get better faster and prevent more problems.<\/p>\n
Pain that is felt in the lower part of the spine is common but is rarely due to serious disease. Staying active will help you get better faster and prevent more problems.<\/p>\n
Any joint in your fingers, thumbs, knuckles and wrists can be affected by arthritis. Many different types of arthritis can affect your hands and cause joint pain, swelling and stiffness.\u00a0Find out about aids and equipment that can make everyday tasks easier. Learn ways to protect your hands and manage your symptoms.<\/p>\n
Hips are common places to develop arthritis, especially osteoarthritis. \u00a0There are many treatments for osteoarthritis of the hip \u00a0that may be helpful such as weight loss, exercise, medicines, aids or supports, heat and cold and many others.<\/p>\n
Knees are common places to develop arthritis, especially osteoarthritis. \u00a0There are many treatments for osteoarthritis of the knee that may be helpful such as weight loss, exercise, medicines, aids or supports, heat and cold and many others.<\/p>\n
Any joint in your ankles, feet and toes can be affected by arthritis. Many different types of arthritis can affect the feet and cause joint pain, swelling and stiffness.\u00a0Find out about aids and equipment that can make everyday tasks easier. Learn ways to protect your hands and manage your symptoms.<\/samp><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arthritis symptoms can occur in almost any area of the body, however some areas, such as the knees, hips, hands and back, are more common than others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3373,"parent":17,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pages\/tpl-body-areas.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-415","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/415\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}