Getting out and about with arthritis: Or not?

Abstract

Arthritic patients have much to complain about. New city arrangements often do not take their particular problems into sufficient account and developments in public transport for their benefit are often patchy. They deserve the best consideration that we can give them so that they are enabled to lead the fullest lives of which they are capable. A properly recessed pavement edge or the provision of a disabled parking bay may not be so glamorous as the recognition of a new autoantibody but dare I suggest that to the individual patient with arthritis it may be just as important?