    Click on the names below for more info Now aged four, Arabella Wallwork has suffered from arthritis since she was just 18 months old but she is still up for a challenge! Caitlin Thackray is aged five and her arthritis was triggered by a viral infection when she was only two years old. After years of painful struggle, Elice Corner's life was turned around when she started taking etanercept, one of the new anti-TNF therapies developed by arc scientists. Oliver Hankinson was only four when he developed arthritis; suffering so much pain and swelling in his left knee that he could barely walk. Now five, Honor Byrne from Dumbarton has had arthritis since she was about 16 months old. Although she still occasionally needs to use her pram, medication and physiotherapy mean that Honor is making good progress. |
  Oliver Hankinson was only four when he developed arthritis, experiencing terrible pain and swelling in his left knee, and having great difficulty walking. Diagnosed quite quickly, treatment has been extremely effective in getting his condition under control, and he is now, at the age of eight, a happy, active child, enjoying swimming, riding his new two-wheeled bike and karate. In the early days of his disease he would have been unable to walk any distance at all, but such has been the little boy's improvement that he has managed to complete two arc Noddy Walks in Walton Hall Gardens in Warrington with his family.  |
