Weather pain. Arthritis, Migrane and joint pain suffers in the US may soon get reports like they do in Germany.

Are you someone who says you can feel the weather in your bones and that some days are bad and others are good? Is it an old wives tale? Is there indeed such a thing as weather pain? Meteorologists at weather pain. com say, yes,

NEWS RELEASE:
RE: WEATHER PAIN
Contact Meteorologist Brian Hill, WeatherPain.com
Toll Free 1-877-701-2594. After 1pm eastern time. Email: info@weatherpain.com

Monday, December 02, 2002

OLD WIVES TALE? Are you someone who says you can feel the weather in your bones. Is it just an old wives tale when people say becuase of the weather they have bad days and others are good? Does your sports injury hurt more in certain types of weather? Is there indeed such a thing as "weather pain"? Meteorologists at weather pain com say, yes, there is weather related pain. Beyond that they say they can predict when painful weather change will arrive in any given city so people can plan for it.

IN GERMANY, SOON IN THE U.S: Every day in Germany a weather pain report is issued, reporting about how the weather will affect the way people feel over the next 24 hours. It is not yet available to the general public everywhere in the US, but this winter and spring a private compnay has an advanced preview, of the Hill Weather Sensitivity Index"

"The weather sensitivity index" will be used by a select group of Arthritis, migraine and joint pain suffers this winter and spring. Meteorologist Brian Hill says "they will track their own "Weather Sensitivity" based on a daily forecast of weather change for their city.

The Weather Pain .com meteorologists use a weather sensitivity index created by Meteorologist Brian Hill and determine the amount of weather change in many weather indices over the next 24 hours. The goal is to help give pain suffers who are weather sensitive some advance warning of bad days or an indication of when their pain may decrease.

ACTION: When a forecast predicts a level of change that affects them, pain suffers may choose to take appropriate action on the advice of their physician.

RESEARCH: According to an arthritis society study in 2001 called Pain in America 80 percent of people with pain believe the weather affects the pain they have. Research in 2002 tends to backs up the concept weather change can cause some people pain.

BACKGROUND: Founder of weather pain .com and creator of the Hill Weather Sensitivity Index, meteorologist Brian Hill, can be booked for phone interviews during December 2002. Mr. Hill is a member of the International Association of BioMeteorology, American Meteorological Society. The National Weather Association, the Canadian Metrological and Oceanographic Society and the Royal Meteorological Society in London.