Attitude, determination keep him going From: The Topeka Capital-Journal | Date: May 26, 2002| Author: | Copyright 2002 The Topeka Capital-Journal. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Joint disease: Better medications, continuing activity bring flexibility

By Linda Laird

The Capital-Journal

Dave Stremming doesn't consider himself old or inactive, but looking at a label a medical doctor put on him at age 15, he should have been feeling pretty old and inactive.

"But I didn't let that happen," he said recently.

Stremming was a teen when he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a joint disease that results in the fusing of certain joints, such as the spine.

Stremming came to Topeka in 1952 and grew up in Oakland near Philip Billard Municipal Airport, which is one area ...

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