Celebrities and their health causes

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ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” celebrity judge Carrie Ann Inaba is one of an estimated 50 million Americans with arthritis.Frazer Harrison/Getty


By Lara Salahi


ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” celebrity judge Carrie Ann Inaba is one of an estimated 50 million Americans with arthritis. Inaba serves as the 2013 national spokesperson for “Healing Hands for Arthritis,” a fundraising event that benefits the Arthritis Foundation.


According to the campaign, Inaba suffers from spinal stenosis, an arthritic condition where the spinal canal narrows and compresses the spinal cord and nerves.


She was featured on the cover of the September-October 2011 issue of Arthritis Today magazine .







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