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Elderly man sitting on bench2. Woman walking with stick3. Elderly couple walking4. Pan Denman tennis club5. Mid shot women at club6. Player leaving7. Close up Greta King serving8. Mid shot Greta King serving9. SOUNDBITE: (English)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Elderly man sitting on bench\u003cbr/\u003e2. Woman walking with stick\u003cbr/\u003e3. Elderly couple walking\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan Denman tennis club\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid shot women at club\u003cbr/\u003e6. Player leaving\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up Greta King serving\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid shot Greta King serving\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greta King, Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I woke up one morning, I can always remember it, was January, I was going to entertain. I woke up and both my hands were so swollen, so painful and so red, it just came out of the blue. It was unbelievable. I couldn't do anything, not one thing. I couldn't even touch the bed clothes. It was just so painful \"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Greta's hands \u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up fist \u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greta King, Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I was dependant on my husband who literally had to do everything for me, toileting, cut up my food, shower me, dress me. It was just excruciating pain continuously.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid shot King pouring orange juice into glass \u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up King unscrewing fish oil bottle \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up oil being poured into glass \u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up King drinking \u003cbr/\u003e17. Professor Les Cleland walking into office \u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid shot Cleland \u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Les Cleland, Royal Adelaide Hospital:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In rheumatoid arthritis after a period of a month or two of treatment (fish oil), one gets a reduction in symptoms. Some people start feeling more comfortable. The other thing we noticed is that when people take the analgesic (pain relieving) type anti-inflammatory drugs, for pain relief that their requirements for those drugs is substantially reduced. Now that's important because those drugs are problematic in terms of increasing cardiovascular risk and causing upper-gastro-intestinal events.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Elderly man walking \u003cbr/\u003e21. Elderly man and woman on escalator \u003cbr/\u003e22. Elderly man seated\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Les Cleland, Royal Adelaide Hospital:\u003cbr/\u003e\"the analgesic effect of fish oil, or the symptom relieving effect of fish oil, is attributable to the presence, within fish oil, of natural inhibitors of the cox enzymes that the analgesic anti-inflammatory drugs inhibit. So it acts as a natural inhibitor of the pathway.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid shot Man buying fish oil at the Preventative care shot at Royal Adelaide Hospital \u003cbr/\u003e25. Close up bottles \u003cbr/\u003e26. Tilt up man buying fish oil \u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop, shopkeeper:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The last few months, sales have increased by over three times to what we were selling in September. And just every month we seem to be selling more and more and more.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Woman buying fish oil\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Don't really know yet, I hope it does, hope it does, I mean that's the purpose of it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Dr Peter Ford, Australian Medical Association Vice President walking into office \u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Peter Ford, Australian Medical Association Vice President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If it has a benefit it is in inflammatory arthritis such as rheumatoid and that comprises about 1 percent of people in Australia have that, so it is reasonably common. But the more common kind is osteo (bone) arthritis which is ten or fifteen percent of people. But that's not an inflammatory disease. So that it seems doesn't benefit.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Mid shot fish oil boxes and bottle\u003cbr/\u003e33. Close up bottles\u003cbr/\u003e34. Close up top of box\u003cbr/\u003e35. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Peter Ford, Australian Medical Association Vice President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Some people may have bad breath as a result. It may cause indigestion.\"\u003cbr/\u003e36. King serving\u003cbr/\u003e37. Mid shot King running to return a shot \u003cbr/\u003e38. SOUNDBITE: (English) Greta King, Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferer:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm back playing tennis, I'm back walking twice a week.\"\u003cbr/\u003e39. Zoom in on King playing tennis\u003cbr/\u003eFish oil has long been promoted as a healthy food supplement. \u003cbr/\u003eNow a study from the Royal Hospital of Adelaide in Australia has shown that taken in large doses it can also help rheumatoid arthritis sufferers. \u003cbr/\u003eFor one local woman the oil supplements have been life changing.\u003cbr/\u003eOne in six Australians suffers from arthritis according to the non-governmental organisation Arthritis Australia. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile there are a number of treatments for sufferers including steroids, painkillers and physiotherapy, researchers  at the Royal Hospital of Adelaide have found that taking high doses of fish oil can relieve the symptoms for patients of rheumatoid arthritis. \u003cbr/\u003eAt the Lower Denman tennis club in Adelaide, around half the women's social players take a daily dose of the oil after seeing the effect it had on fellow player Greta King.\u003cbr/\u003eKing started to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis five years ago.\u003cbr/\u003eShe says the pain was so bad she couldn't bear to touch anything, and lost mobility in both her hands.\u003cbr/\u003eThe effect was so severe, her husband had to help her do everything.\u003cbr/\u003eHer problem was compounded after her body proved intolerant to standard treatments of the disease.\u003cbr/\u003eIn desperation she agreed to take part in research conducted at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, examining the effects of giving higher than normal doses of fish oil to people with rheumatoid arthritis.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter knocking back a shot of the oil, equivalent to 15 1000 milligram capsules, once a day for a couple of months, King's condition improved drastically.\u003cbr/\u003eThe man behind the research, Professor Les Cleland says that the study examined two groups one taking fish oil with, or instead of traditional medicines and one group just taking standard drugs.\u003cbr/\u003eGreta King says her daily dose of fish oil has alleviated her symptoms dramatically and she has taken up playing tennis and living an active life once more. \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough King's results were unusual, the study indicated patients taking the larger doses of fish oil showed a greater reduction in symptoms than those depending solely on traditional drugs.\u003cbr/\u003eThey also had less need for pain killing anti-inflammatory, which can strain the cardio vascular system.\u003cbr/\u003eCleland says the fish oil acts by replacing the actions of analgesic anti-inflammatory drugs, as a natural inhibitor of the Cox enzyme.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd it's not just study participants who are trying out the oil.\u003cbr/\u003eThe word about the fish oil's effects has got out and the hospital's preventative care shop has seen sales of the fish oil triple over the past three months.\u003cbr/\u003eLocal residents seemed keen to try it out, even though some were unsure as to whether it works.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Dr Peter Ford, Vice President of 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