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41. Is Rainy Day Joint Pain All in Your Head?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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iReporter: Is it true that bad weather can cause joint pain? Dr. robert schmerling says there are more than a hundred kinds of arthritis. Weather seems to affect our perception of pain when the weather is quote unquote bad, he says. In 20 13, total medical costs and earnings loses in the us were 303 billion dollars due to some kind of arthritis.

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