Telephone-Based Self-management of Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is a leading cause of pain and disability and one of the most common conditions treated in primary care. Optimal management of osteoarthritis involves both pharmacologic intervention and behavioral strategies, such as exercise and weight management. However, most patients with osteoarthritis do not adequately practice these behavioral strategies, and most primary care practices are not set up to support them.

Baby Names for the Redneck set…

Are you a prospective parent and you’re wondering what name to give to your darling, brand new creation? Do you have friends or relatives who find themselves in this situation, and have reached out to you for help? If you answered yes to either of these questions and you consider yourself a redneck, then I’ve got just the website for you!

Okay, I kind of snuck the redneck part in there at the end, but when looking to name your child, shouldn’t your choice represent in some ways how the child will be raised and the value structure of...

What Is a Lyric Essay?

Shhhh — not so loud! That’s my first reaction to the question, So what’s a lyric essay? I want to protect the LE I want to give it the bigger, roomier coat of E to hide in. I want it underground, under the radar. When asked its age at the admissions booth, as honest LE begins to say Me? I’m twel – I’ll be the one poking it in the back, saying She’s ten! Let’s go!

I know novelists who are more at home in the essay than the novel though they wouldn’t agree or admit). I know poets whose poems...

When modifying, do not dangle

The soldier was thrown to the floor from his bunk by the loud explosion in his pajamas.” It happens to the best writers…that floating loss of concentration that links a modifying phrase to the wrong word, often evoking unwanted laughter. Obviously, the writer should have tied those pajamas to the soldier and not to the explosion. [This citation, I must tell you, made it all the way into print; the editor learned of it only when a gleeful reader telephoned.]

A dangling modifier is simply a phrase or clause that is not linked to the logical subject. It dangles, unloose attached,...

LED lamps use only 10 watts at achieving an output of 1000 lumens.

Convince yourself of the huge benefits that have LED lamps compared to other light sources. They convince including a very long life, which can range from LED chips up to 50,000 hours. So just pay for the purchase price, not because ever new light body must be purchased. Within the lifetime of LED lights, users can also enjoy a significantly lower power consumption compared to incandescent bulbs. So it stands to replace conventional light bulbs throughout the house or halogen lamps by LED lamps.

Up to 90% less power compared to the modern light-emitting diodes require bulb....