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For more than two thousand years people have believed that joint pain could be triggered by bad weather, but the link has never been proven.
But now, by harnessing the power of thousands of volunteers, doctors hope to unravel the mystery. And the new technique could offer countless solutions to a whole host of ailments.
[...] Each day she enters information about how she feels into an app on her phone, the phone's GPS pinpoints her location, pulls the latest weather information from the internet, and fires a package of data to a team of researchers.
On its own Becky's data is of limited interest, but she isn't acting alone. More than 13,000 volunteers have signed up for the same study, sending vast quantities of information into a database - more than four million data points so far.
The app, called "Cloudy with a Chance of Pain" is part of a research project being run by Will Dixon. He is a consultant rheumatologist at Salford Royal Hospital and has spent years researching joint pain.
My rheumatism is triggered when the wife asks me to carry heavy, heavy things up to our 3rd-floor walk-up...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:51PM (4 children)
I've known a lot of peopel with aches and pains. None of them ever seemed to reliably predict the weather. Of all the people I've known who claimed joint pain (or whatever) ahead of storms, only a couple seemed to be somewhat reliable. No, it doesn't count when the first gusts are tearing shingles off of houses across the neighborhood, and Joe Schmoe says, "I knew there was a reason my blah-blah was hurting so bad!" Joe didn't mention any pain all morning long, but at 1:PM he sees a shingle fly off of a roof, and suddenly he hurts? I call bullshit.
I have my own aches and pains. There have been occassions when my pains flared up, just ahead of severe weather. But, no, it is not a reliable predictor. I've suffered horrible aches and pains in the middle of long dry spells, and I've seen the weather change drastically without any pain indicators.
Maybe - just maybe - SOME people can predict upcoming storms, but I'll need some decent evidence before I believe them.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:14PM (2 children)
I have a theory that those who can predict such things are more connected to the planet. They are also pure and not mixed. Mixed genes and mixed races stop people from being alive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:53PM (1 child)
What determines what a race is? Is race like a sort of kind [wikipedia.org] or baramin for humans?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday April 20 2017, @09:14AM
A race is a competition for speed. Rheumatism certainly is not helpful in a race, especially if it is strong enough to effectively immobilize you.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday April 19 2017, @08:54PM
It is easy to notice the correlations you want to see and dismiss the ones you don't.
Also, if you have pain you are aware of it and give it thought. You take note of it. You remember it the next day or after the weather has changed. If you don't have pain, you don't notice that. Most people don't think about a lack of pain.
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