It was the challenge of a lifetime: a young Sydney man with arthritis and the world's highest free standing mountain.
Matthew Leibowitz has ankylosing spondylitis - a debilitating form of arthritis but it wasn't going to stop him leading 19 people in an inspirational assault on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro. Among the group were Matthew's friends - Jonathon Shapiro, Daniel Been, Peter Collins and Jeremy Unger - his rheumatologist, Dr Jim Bertouch, and the Chair of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney, Professor Philip Sambrook, who filmed the trek.
They raised more than $90,000 for Arthritis Australia, proving life's obstacles, arthritis included, can be overcome with determination and teamwork.
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Media Release - May 2010 New advice to protect your joints in your own home
At home with arthritis booklet, Domesticate your Joints
New advice to protect your joints in your own home
"The minute someone diagnoses you with arthritis, you've really got to get going with protecting your joints, and bring that destructive arthritic process to heel," claims Dr Mona Marabani, President of Arthritis Australia and a leading rheumatologist (bone, joint and muscle specialist). "While preventing arthritis in the first place is best, the fact is that it's possible to slow down the deterioration in your joints. And one of the best places to start is in your own home".
"When you look at all the things we do at home, there's a huge number of opportunities to make our sore joints worse - and the same number of opportunities to protect them," ..........
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