The rain does not break bones
Joint pain has nothing to do with rainy weather, doctors found out
Rainy weather does not affect joint and back pain in any way. This conclusion was reached by doctors from Harvard University, who studied the data of more than 1.5 million American pensioners who, in the period from 2008 to 2012, consulted doctors more than 11 million times. The results of the study are published in the journal BMJ (Jena et al., Association between rainfall and diagnoses of joint or back pain: retrospective claims analysis).
The authors compared the visits of pensioners on rainy and sunny days, adjusted for the characteristics of patients, chronic diseases and geographical conditions. It turned out that there were even more complaints of pain on sunny days, but the difference is so insignificant that it does not play any role in the clinical sense.
Graph from an article in BMJ – VM.
"No matter what angle we looked at these data, we did not see any correlation between rain and visits to therapists with joint or back pain. We can draw the following conclusion: sore backs and joints are unreliable weather predictors," said Professor Anupam Jena, one of the authors of the study.
Scientists emphasize that, despite the fact that they have not found a link between joint pain and rainy weather, it can still be. To do this, it is necessary to investigate in more detail the severity of the diseases in question and the level of pain that patients experienced on the corresponding days.
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