Arthritis Is Actually Worse During The Monsoon

Patients with osteoarthritis, the most prevalent kind of arthritis, frequently claim that their joint pain gets worse during a monsoon or, in some circumstances, just rainy weather. Since there is no connection between weather and arthritis, doctors have typically dismissed this as another medical urban legend due to a lack of empirical evidence.

That is, until a research published in The American Journal of Medicine in 2007 shown unequivocally that the weather can, in fact, aggravate arthritis. Over the course of three months, the researchers gathered pain reports from 200 individuals dispersed around the US and compared them to meteorological information from their local weather station. Because of the local weather or the time of year, they discovered that abrupt changes in atmospheric pressure and temperature do make knee discomfort worse.