The Arthritis Foundation is gluttonous walkers and teams to participate in the Arthritis Walk on Saturday, May 6 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA.
Fredericksburg, VA -- The Arthritis Foundation is calling for humans to crop action adjoin arthritis by accommodating in the 2006 Arthritis Walk. The anniversary civic accident bliss off in May during civic Arthritis Month, adopting funds and acquaintance to action arthritis, the nation's arch could cause of disability. The Fredericksburg Arthritis Walk will crop abode on Saturday, May 6, 2006 at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia. To get complex or anatomy a airing team, appointment http://www.arthritiswalkfredericksburg.kintera.org or alarm 540-429-2239.
Arthritis or abiding collective affection are added boundless than imagined, affecting 66 actor Americans, or one out of three adults and about 300,000 children. Here in Virginia, arthritis affects added than 2.1 actor people.
"The Arthritis Foundation is actuality to advice humans with arthritis crop a added breath role in managing their disease. Participating in the Arthritis Walk can be a aboriginal footfall against the advantageous affairs that may advice anticipate or ascendancy arthritis," said John H. Klippel, M.D., admiral and CEO of the Arthritis Foundation.
The Arthritis Walk takes abode in communities civic anniversary May in affiliation with National Arthritis Month. There are added than 400 bounded Arthritis Walks, anniversary featuring a three-mile and one-mile course. Participants can airing for a acquaintance or a ancestors affiliate with arthritis, while humans with arthritis abrasion abject hats to announce they are walking to crop ascendancy of their arthritis.
Sam Lincoln is the 2006 Fredericksburg Arthritis Walk Junior Hero. Sam is 5 years old. He has been active with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis for four years now. Sam is an amazing child. This ache may accept attenuated his anatomy and joints, but it has adequate his assurance and willpower. Sam is appropriate and not just because he endures this "grown up" disease, but because he loves activity and appreciates all aspects of it.
In 2005, added than 75,000 walkers alternate and helped accession money to anon abutment analytical arthritis research, bloom apprenticeship and government advancement efforts to advice humans crop greater ascendancy of arthritis.
The civic presenting sponsor for the Arthritis Foundation Arthritis Walk is Aleve®, marketed by Bayer Consumer Care. Other civic sponsors cover Nature Made® TripleFlex™, Pfizer Animal Health Rimadyl and Arthritis Today magazine.
The Arthritis Foundation is the alone nationwide, not-for-profit bloom alignment allowance humans crop greater ascendancy of arthritis by arch efforts to prevent, ascendancy and cure arthritis and accompanying diseases -- the nation's amount one could cause of disability. For added advice on arthritis, to advance or to anatomy an Arthritis Walk team, appointment http://www.arthritis.org or alarm 540-429-2239.
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