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You Said It: Making House Chores Easier
Arthritis Todayreaders answered the question: How do you make household chores easier on your arthritis? Here’s what they had to say:
Spring into Home Repairs With These Handy Tricks
Spring cleaning often brings to attention those small repairs that you’ve been meaning to get around to. Stuck drawers, clogged drains, torn window screens – small household repairs can be an ordeal if you havepainful hands from arthritis还有工具的短缺。但事实并非如此。纽约市的职业治疗师南希·瑞恩(Nancy Ryan)提出了以下这些简单的捷径，可以让你做一些普通的工作，更少的痛苦和努力，而且还能把你手边可能有的东西拿出来。
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11 Cleaning Tips That Will Spare Your Joints
Streamline cleaning tasks to maximize sparkle and minimize joint pain and strain. Here are some household cleaning tips and cleaning shortcuts.
1. House cleaning tips begin with pacing yourself.Instead of a dedicated chore day, clean just one room a day. “If you do everything in one day, you’ll end up overexerting yourself,” says Linda Cobb, author ofTalking Dirty With the Queen of Clean(Pocket Books, 2004).
2. Focus on heavy-traffic areas.“You may need to vacuum only the pathway from the kitchen to the doorway to help spruce up the place,” says Donna Smallin, author ofThe One-Minute Cleaner(Storey Publishing, LLC, 2007).
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