It’s no secret, looking good can help you feel good. However, achieving your best look – especially in the face of ever-presentpain and inflammation– can be beset with challenges. Our experts share how to put your best beauty and fashion foot forward.
- Use a dispenser in the shower.Instead of a bar of soap or bottles of shampoo and conditioner, which you’ll need to retrieve if dropped, use a push-button body wash, shampoo and conditioner dispenser that can be mounted to the shower wall.
- Use bathing mitts to ease scrubbingand long-handled brushes and loofas for tough-to-reach spots.
- Wash hair with helpful products.Use a combined shampoo-and-conditioner and a long-handled hair washer. A volumizing shampoo can also add body to hair that may be thinning due to arthritis medications.
- Sit down while you dress如果一只胳膊或腿比较僵硬或疼痛，就先把它放进衣服里。脱衣服时，先脱下较强壮的一只手或一条腿，然后在较强壮的一只手或一条腿的帮助下脱下另一只手或一条腿。
- Try fuller cut clothingwith larger openings, which make dressing and undressing easier.
- Accessorize wisely.For example, use a belt around fuller cut clothing to stay fashion-forward and on days when spending too much time on your hair isn’t possible, try a hair accessory such as a bow or headband.
- Ditch the buttons.Instead of buttons, go for Velcro, elastic waistbands, hook-and-eye or zipper closures on pants, skirts, shirts and undergarments. And opt for front-fastening bras. An iron-on, Velcro-to-button conversion kit at craft and drug stores can be used to convert button-down shirts into Velcro-fastening shirts that retain a buttoned-up look.
- Add belts before you put on pants.Lace belts through pant loops before putting on your pants or try a Velcro belt like Myself Belts (myselfbelts.com), which include a faux belt buckle so no one will know it’s Velcro.
- Use assistive devices.A button loop with a hollow handle through which you can slide your fingers instead of grasping; a hook or cord-type zipper pull (even a paperclip looped through the whole in the zipper tab) for better reach and leverage to zip up pants, dresses, skirts, jackets, boots or anything with a zipper; a sock aid for pulling on socks, stockings, pantyhose, knee-highs or compression stockings; a long-handled shoe horn for slipping on shoes.
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