About this Book

Most people think that arthritis only affects the elderly, but Amanda Trask-Murphy was diagnosed with the disease when she was just eleven years old. She is among the nearly three hundred thousand children in the United States who have some form of arthritis. The author tells Amanda's story and how, with the help of her family and her doctor, she has learned to cope with the disease. The author also describes the most common types of the disease and the treatments, from medications to artificial joints, that improve the lives of the almost 43 million Americans who have arthritis.