How Your Knees Can Predict the Weather 膝盖能预报天气？.docVIP

How Your Knees Can Predict the Weather 膝盖能预报天气？ The Wolff family of Paramus, N.J., was eyeing the gathering clouds and debating whether to cancel a planned park trip when 6-year-old Leora piped up with an idea: Lets call Grandma. Her knees always know when its going to rain! 家住新泽西州帕拉默斯(Paramus)的沃尔夫(Wolff)一家一面看着积聚的云朵，一面争论着是否要取消游公园的计划，这时六岁大的莱奥拉(Leora)尖声尖气地说出了一个想法：“我们打电话给奶奶吧，她的膝盖总是知道什么时候要下雨。” Leoras grandmother, Esther Polatsek, says she started being sensitive to the weather in her 20s, when a fracture in her foot would ache whenever a snowstorm approached. Now 66 and plagued by rheumatoid arthritis, Mrs. Polatsek says she suffers flare-ups whenever the weather is about to change. 天气状况会使某些人身体的疼痛加剧，涉及从头到脚的各个部位，究竟是何原因还是一个谜。本图介绍了美国多个地区的天气和疼痛发作情况。 Its just uncanny. Sometimes itll be gorgeous out, but Ill have this awful pain. And sure enough, the next morning it rains, she says. It may be just a few drops, but it makes my body crazy. 莱奥拉的奶奶埃斯特·波洛切克(Esther Polatsek)说，她从20多岁的时候开始对天气敏感，每当暴风雪临近，她脚部的骨折处就会疼痛。现年66岁的波洛切克一直受到风湿性关节炎的困扰，她说每逢天气要发生变化，疼痛就会突然发作。 Do weather conditions really aggravate physical pain? 她说：“这真是不可思议。有时候天气好极了，我还是会遭受剧痛。当然，第二天早上就会下雨。有时可能只下了几滴雨，但它还是会让我的身体疼痛难忍。” It is one of the longest running controversies in medicine. 天气状况真的会加重身体的疼痛吗？这是医学界引起争议时间最长的问题之一。 Hippocrates in 400 B.C. noticed that some illnesses were seasonal. The traditional Chinese medicine term for rheumatism (fengshi bing) translates to wind-damp disease. 早在公元前400年，古希腊名医希波克拉底(Hippocrates)就注意到有些疾病是季节性的。传统中医中对应“rheumatism”的名称是风湿病，即与风寒和潮湿有关的疾病。 But modern scholars have gotten inconsistent results in studies that tried to match weather patterns to reported pain symptoms -- leading some to dismiss the connection as highly subjective or all in sufferers minds. 当代学者试图将天气类型与患者陈述的疼痛症状进行匹配，但他们的研究得出了不尽相同的结果，因此有些学者认为，天气与疼痛的关联是极其主观的或者完全是患者的心理作用。 Peoples beliefs about arthritis pain and the weather may tell more about the workings of the mind than of the body, concluded the late Stanford psychologist Amos Tv