Overcoming Rheumatism: French Chef Takes a Bite Out of the Big Apple
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For this reason, as he crosses the finish line in Central Park Christian will sport a Bone and Joint Decade/University of Nice t-shirt, which reads: "Jai un rhumatisme sévère et une vie formidable" ("I have a severe rheumatism and yet a wonderful life").Prof Liana Euller-Ziegler, Head of the Rheumatology Department in Nice, and Bone and Joint Decade International Steering Committee Member, said: “Early diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis and other musculoskeletal conditions is absolutely crucial because new treatments available are extremely effective at stopping disease manifestations and possibly progression, and thus improving quality of life.Professor Lars Lidgren, chairman of the Bone and Joint Decade, and head of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Lund in Sweden, said: ““Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of disability around the world, affecting one out of every four adults and accounting for 25% of the total cost of illness.Please see For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact: The Bone and Joint Decade Ms Sara Martin BJD Communications Manager tel: +32 476 274 325 Email: smartin@skynet.be www.bjdonline.org ### New York, NY, November 08, 2007 --( PR.com )-- For French Chef Christian Plumail, the New York City Marathon means far more than running the world’s most famous foot race – it means carrying himself with fist-pumping enthusiasm for 42 kilometres from a past of infernal pain and disability to a stable future of mobility and physical triumph.On November 4, 2007, the celebrity chef will not only rejoice his accomplishment in completing the prestigious 26 miles through the Big Apple – romantic only in its title, fiercely competitive and gruelling in its reality – but he will mark the one-year anniversary of his diagnosis with severe active Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), a chronic, disabling rheumatic condition characterised by spine pain which rendered him nearly immobile for two years.In December last year, after months of intolerable pain and disability and numerous investigations, Christian was referred to the Rheumatology Department in the University Hospital of Nice, his home-town and the location of his Michelin-starred restaurant, lUnivers de Christian Plumail.To Christians benefit, intervention in the form of anti-TNF alpha administration rapidly and effectively halted the disease manifestation and allowed him to return to normal - or perhaps more-determined-than-normal - activity in both his professional and personal life.For this reason, as he crosses the finish line in Central Park Christian will sport a Bone and Joint Decade/University of Nice t-shirt, which reads: "Jai un rhumatisme sévère et une vie formidable" ("I have a severe rheumatism and yet a wonderful life").Prof Liana Euller-Ziegler, Head of the Rheumatology Department in Nice, and Bone and Joint Decade International Steering Committee Member, said: “Early diagnosis of Ankylosing Spondylitis and other musculoskeletal conditions is absolutely crucial because new treatments available are extremely effective at stopping disease manifestations and possibly progression, and thus improving quality of life.
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