ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Does the weather really affect my pain?
Dr. Wayne M. Fichter Jr.
The next time you watch the weather forecast, notice the barometric pressure, measured in inches. Typically, when a low pressure front is coming (and they do, all the time) it signals not only a change in the weather, but a drop in the barometric pressure, which is pressure against the Earth’s atmosphere. As a very loose rule, a high-pressure area will be clear, and a low-pressure area will be cloudy and rainy. Remember when Grandma would say, “Rain’s coming, and I can feel it in my joints?” She actually knew this because of what happens to our bodies when the barometric pressure changes.
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