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Living with Arthritis: A Saga of Change

 

CHANDIGARH November 27, 2012: As a part of the monthly colloquia series, Panjab
University organized a lecture on “Living with Arthritis: A Saga of Change” delivered by
Prof. Pradeep Bambery from University of Queensland, Australia at the Law Auditorium,
P.U. campus here today.


    Professor Arun Kumar Grover, Vice-Chancellor, PU; Professor R.K Kohli, Dean University
Instruction and Professor B.S. Ghuman, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Chief Coordinator of
the Colloquium Series were present on this occasion.    
 

    Professor Kohli while extending a floral welcome to Professor Bambery presented him a
copy of the book “Flight of the Phoenix”.  Professor Grover introduced Professor Bambery
to the audience who is a celebrated name in the field of medicine.  
 

Professor Bambery began with thanking the University for his basic education and for the
opportunity to deliver the lecture.  He also paid a tribute to his teacher Sridhar
Devdatt Deodhar.  He began his lecture with a colourful visual of an impressionist
painting by the artist, Pierre Auguste Renoir who was a patient of arthritis.  Professor
Bambery beautifully interweaved his lecture with the artist’s portraits which showed his
medical condition and his works of art.  Through these visuals, he explained the disease
of arthritis and the condition of the arthritis patient.   Professor Bambery discussed
the problems of pain, stiffness and fatigue that occur in arthritis.  He explained that
how the understanding and treatment of the disease had undergone a paradigm shift from
the early 20th century to the present times.  Mentioning the early works of Sir William
Osler, the father of modern medicine, Professor Bambery discussed ‘systematic exercise’
as an important breakthrough in the treatment of arthritis.  He also mentioned that the
treatment and understanding of the disease has shifted from an era of procrastination,
diagnostic delay and single drugs to an era of multiple drugs and better treatments.  
Professor Bambery also discussed the issue of the use of steroids and corticosteroids as
he highlighted the harmful side-effects of the same.  He spoke about the clinical
toxicity of corticosteroids.  Talking about the condition of osteoporosis, he mentioned
that steroids were the commonest cause of secondary osteoporosis.  However, Professor
Bambery mentioned that today the medical science is better equipped to deal and
understand the working of steroids.
 

Towards the end of his lecture, Prof. Bambery mentioned some tips which could prove to
be of help to the arthritis patients.  Prof. Bambery said that inactivity is a silent
killer for an arthritis patient.  Therefore, an arthritis patient should remain active
and avoid weight gain.    He further mentioned that it is important to exercise but an
arthritis patient should choose correct exercises and exercise within limits.
Protecting the joints and good nutrition were also suggestions he offered that could
help preventing the disease.  Finally, understanding the problem and getting the correct
treatment is essential for the arthritis patient.  He concluded his lecture with a
message of hope and cautious optimism.  
 

During an interactive session which followed the lecture, Prof. Bambery answered several
questions about the disease.  In one of his answers about preventing arthritis, he
mentioned that some cases of arthritis are believed to have an infectious trigger.
Therefore, preventing infections could be one of the ways in preventing arthritis.  In
an another response to the role of self-help books on arthritis, Professor Bambery
mentioned that there was a need for authentic information and literature that can be
made available to the patients instead of random help from the internet.        
    
Press Note No.567
      MMK/PS

 



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