Show Us Your Hands! Releases 1,000 Hands Poster in Celebration of Arthritis Awareness Month
(May 1, 2012) – Show Us Your Hands! is pleased to announce the release of its 1,000 Hands Poster Project, the latest in a series of successful initiatives
aimed at uniting the community of individuals who are living with inflammatory
arthritis and increasing the public’s awareness of this group of autoimmune
diseases. This poster proudly displays the first one thousand hands which were
submitted to the community collage project and is being released today in
celebration of Arthritis Awareness Month.
May is National Arthritis Awareness
Month in the United States. Its goal is to bring attention to the issues and
realities faced by people who live with one of the more than 100 different
types of arthritis. More than 46 million people live with arthritis in the US,
including 300,000 children. It is the most common cause of disability.
The 1,000 Hands Poster is available for purchase at Zazzle. “This poster is powerful! It represents
how individual we each are with inflammatory disease while also showing how
strong we are together as a community,” says founding director Cathy Kramer. All
funds raised from the sale of these posters go to Show Us Your Hands! An international awareness movement which serves to unite and
inspire the inflammatory arthritis community.
The Show Us Your Hands! inflammatory arthritis
community collage project debuted in December 2011. People of all ages from
around the world are represented in this community project and new photos
continue to be added to on a regular basis. The community collage project
serves not only as a symbol of the wonderfully supportive inflammatory
arthritis community that continues to grow and connect online, but also acts as
a reminder that people who live with these diseases should be proud of, and not
ashamed of, their inflammatory arthritis hands. By April 2011, the Show Us Your
Hands! inflammatory arthritis community collage project had grown to include
more than 1,000 hands.
Autoimmune diseases occur when a
body’s immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue. In the case of
inflammatory arthritis a person’s joints are frequently attacked, resulting in
chronic pain and debilitating inflammation. The most common inflammatory
arthritis diseases are Ankylosing Spondylitis, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Mixed
Connective Tissue Disease, Psoriatic Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Arthritis, Scleroderma, Sjogren's Syndrome, Still's Disease, and Systemic Lupus
Erythematosus.
Show Us Your Hands! is an
international awareness movement which serves to unite and inspire the inflammatory
arthritis community. For more information, please visit www.showusyourhands.org. Show Us Your Hands! can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
Contact:
Show Us Your Hands!
showusyourhands@gmail.com
Show Us Your Hands!
showusyourhands@gmail.com
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