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Phil Mickelson Struggles with Psoriatic Arthritis

GolfBargainOffers.com / 08/11

Born in 1970, it's hard to associate disease with Phil Mickelson. Nevertheless, it's true. The world number two announced on Tuesday that he was suffering from psoriatic arthritis.

Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory joint disease which can cause stiffness, pain and lack of movement, however, Mickelson said everything was fine now.

In the last month when Mickelson participating the Scottish Open and The Open, he was on anti-inflammatories - he missed the cut at Loch Lomond and was only 48th at St Andrews - but for the last two weeks has been injecting himself weekly with a drug that he has been told to take for the next year.

The problem started just before the US Open in June. Thus, one of the by-products of the disease is that Mickelson has become a vegetarian. Surprise?

He is part of a group which owns the rights for a burger chain in California and on that joked: "We're working on a veggie burger!"

Due to the disease struck, Callaway staff Mickelson also had a sprained left index finger and sprained right wrist.

As for psoriatic arthritis, here are 8 self help tips for Psoriatic Arthritis:

1) Eat Healthy
2) Keep a Food Diary
3) Take a multi-vitamin Supplement and Vitamin C
4) Don't Smoke
5) Exercise Regularly
6)Consider Physical Therapy
7) Drink Aloe Vera
8) Get Some Sunshine