{"id":12154,"date":"2017-08-20T00:04:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T04:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2017-08-20T00:04:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T04:04:53","slug":"does-rain-increase-joint-pain-researchers-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/08\/does-rain-increase-joint-pain-researchers-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Does Rain Increase Joint Pain? Researchers Say No&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard stories from folks from time to time about how their aches and pains and headaches are correlated with a variety of weather conditions.\u00a0 Maybe you have too.\u00a0 But a recent research report published earlier this month, there is very little physical evidence to prove it. The researchers found that Google searches related to joint pain increased with temperature but speculated that it was more related to activity in good weather rather than changes in joint mobility.\u00a0 Searches also decreased with rain, when people tend to stay inside. You can read more about it and how the myth originated at <em>NBC News<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/does-rain-increase-joint-pain-google-says-no-n791226\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/does-rain-increase-joint-pain-google-says-no-n791226<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/raindrops-on-puddle-commons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2770\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/raindrops-on-puddle-commons-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/raindrops-on-puddle-commons-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/raindrops-on-puddle-commons-194x138.jpg 194w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/raindrops-on-puddle-commons.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard stories from folks from time to time about how their aches and pains and headaches are correlated with a variety of weather conditions.\u00a0 Maybe you have too.\u00a0 But a recent research report published earlier this month, there is very little physical evidence to prove it. The researchers found that Google searches related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12155,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions\/12155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}