{"id":2262,"date":"2019-09-24T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/?post_type=review&amp;p=2262"},"modified":"2019-09-24T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:51:42","slug":"osteoarthritis","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arcequine\/case-studies\/osteoarthritis\/","title":{"rendered":"Osteoarthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"medium-7 columns\">\n<p>Prior to my use of the Arc, I had osteoarthritis in the metacarpal joints at the base of both my thumbs. These have been sometimes just painful but also I have had to ask my husband to open jars for me whereas in the past I had a very strong grip.<\/p>\n<p>Since using the Arc, the discomfort in my thumbs at rest has reduced gradually almost without me noticing. Prior to the pain receding, I began to notice that I no longer had to ask for help to undo jars. At first I thought that they had not been done up tightly enough but then it was too frequent to be that as a reason. My guess is that the reduction in pain is allowing me to resume the strength of grip that I had before.<\/p>\n<p>The Arc has allowed a phenomenal improvement in many ways to my quality of life as a retiree.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"medium-4 medium-offset-1 columns\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc4health.com\/resources\/CaseStudymedia\/CaseStudy1192\/\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-pag\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to my use of the Arc, I had osteoarthritis in the metacarpal joints at the base of both my thumbs. These have been sometimes just painful but also I have had to ask my husband to open jars for me whereas in the past I had a very strong grip. Since using the Arc, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","case-studies-cat":[],"class_list":["post-2262","case-studies","type-case-studies","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arcequine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arcequine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arcequine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/case-studies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arcequine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arcequine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"case-studies-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcmicrotech.com\/arcequine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/case-studies-cat?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}