More children are suffering from arthritis than ever before. Unpublished data released June, 2007 from a study conducted jointly by the American College of Rheumatology and the American Academy of Pediatrics states nearly 300,000 children in the United States have significant arthritis. Dr. Brian Feldman, chief of the arthritis program at the Bloorview MacMillan Children’s Center in Toronto states that this number is “probably an underestimate.” The study did not include thousands of children who suffer with painful joints but have not yet been diagnosed with disease such as rheumatoid arthritis. An Australian study confirms that the rate of childhood arthritis is four to six times higher than rates typically quoted.(1)
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