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ARMA Newsletter July 2021
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Mental health and MSK
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The launch by National Voices of their Ask Me How I Am report got me thinking about mental health. The report highlights many of the issues that ARMA has raised in relation to MSK. Mental health and MSK are not separate. Living with a long term painful condition which restricts your mobility is clearly going to have a psychological as well as a physical impact. Which is why ARMA has made mental health a priority area for our work in the last few years.
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Mental health support needs to be easy to access for everyone with a long term MSK condition.
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Raising MSK conditions up the agenda has never been more important...
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... that’s why we’ve joined ARMA
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Guest blog by Craig Jones, CEO of the Royal Osteoporosis Society
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Later this summer the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) will launch its manifesto for a future without osteoporosis. This marks the beginning of a new chapter where we’ll turn up the volume on the fight against osteoporosis through campaigning and advocacy.
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Our hospital-by-hospital approach to fostering Fracture Liaison Services (FLS) since 2015 has paid off, with 12.1m more people now having access to the gold standard for secondary fracture prevention. But with overall coverage plateauing stubbornly at 60% of the population, we know a new high-impact approach is now needed. We’ll continue to support HCPs and hospitals with advice on what good looks like, but we’ll prioritise converting our insights from the field into a national model of best practice and a platform for levelling up services across the four nations, holding decision-makers to account where we see gaps in provision.
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ARMA welcomes new associate member Grünenthal
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Grünenthal is a research-driven pharmaceutical company specialising in the provision of treatments for managing pain. We are a leading global provider of innovative treatments and state-of-the-art technologies for people living with pain in the UK and around the world.
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Our purpose is to change lives for the better. We are focusing all activities and efforts on moving towards our vision for a World Free of Pain.
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Key MSK COVID-19 resources
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ARMA continues to keep its COVID-19 resources page up to date.
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BackCare’s pain management webinar
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The basis of the webinar was to provide a closer insight into back pain whatever the cause and to evaluate alleviating back pain from three different angles, these being: therapies, minimally invasive surgery and medication, with each area represented by an expert in the field.…
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Physio First develops EDI checklist
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Physio First wins funding for development of EDI checklist for CSP Professional Networks Physio First is one of the professional networks of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and represents private practitioners. They have been successful in gaining some funding from CSP to help them and other professional networks to identify barriers and challenges to producing their own individual Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policies.…
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Royal Osteoporosis Society launches its largest ever survey
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The Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) has launched its 2021 'Life with osteoporosis' survey, to help understand the impact of osteoporosis on the lives of people living with the condition. Following the previous 'Life with osteoporosis' survey conducted in 2014, the ROS aims for this to be the largest survey of its kind – so please share it with relevant audiences. The survey is open to anyone living with osteoporosis…
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New booklet: Medicines in JIA
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NRAS is pleased to announce the launch of its new JIA booklet Medicines in JIA. The focus of the booklet is on the medicines that are used to treat JIA, but it also contains information about what parents and young people with JIA can expect at every stage from diagnosis to ongoing long-term care, showing that medicines are only one part …
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iO council professional sought
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The Institute of Osteopathy (iO) is looking for a lay professional to join the iO council, who has a drive to contribute to the development of osteopathy in the UK. If you, or someone you know, are experienced in the broad health market, such as policy or educational development and are passionate about positively impacting the nation’s health…
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NOA's Integrated Care Systems webinar, part two
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NOA webinar: Integrated Care Systems (ICS): the new world of musculoskeletal care (part 2)
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The National Orthopaedic Alliance will host the second part of its musculoskeletal care webinar series on 7 July at 1pm.
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Chronic pain: Unseen, unequal, unfair - Versus Arthritis report
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A few years ago, Versus Arthritis funded the inclusion of a chronic pain questionnaire in the Health Survey for England. The findings from these questions are stark.
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Versus Arthritis’ new report, Chronic pain in England: Unseen, unequal, unfair sets out key findings from the survey (initially analysed by Public Health England) and a series of recommendations which call for a fundamental re-think in how we support people with chronic pain through far-reaching solutions.
Read more
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University of Manchester pain research
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The University of Manchester is looking for people with arthritis or any other long-term musculoskeletal pain condition to take part in the Manchester Digital Pain Manikin study. Do you have arthritis or any other long-term musculoskeletal pain condition? Are you interested in improving the way long-term pain is measured?
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PHE's Better Health Every Mind Matters updated
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The Better Health - Every Mind Matters website has recently been refreshed to help people access the content more easily. There are things we can all do to look after our mental wellbeing and the Every Mind Matters Mind Plan can provide NHS approved personalised advice on positive steps people can take…
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The AHP’s role in tackling health inequalities
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Every allied health professional plays an important role in tackling health inequalities. The 14 allied health professional bodies, Public Health England, NHS England and NHS Improvement have worked with The King’s Fund to develop a simple framework to help any allied health professional consider their role in tackling health inequalities. Read more
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ARMA Calendar
| 1 July 2021, 4pm |
NRAS Facebook Live: COVID and Inflammatory Arthritis Update |
| 7 July 2021, 1pm |
NOA Integrated Care Systems webinar, part 2 |
| 8 July 2021 |
ROS Life with Osteoporosis survey closes |
| 8 July 2021, 1pm |
NASS Facebook Live: What is the Gold Standard Programme? |
| 13 July 2021, 7pm |
NOA Wellbeing Workshop: Resilience |
| 21 July 2021, 12pm |
NASS Facebook Live: Therapeutic Tai Chi for axial SpA session |
| 21 July 2021, 2pm |
NRAS Zoom Event: Cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis |
| 27 July 2021, 1pm |
NASS Facebook Live: Foot health in axial SpA |
| 30 July 2021 |
Arthritis and long-term MSK Welsh Govt. consultation ends |
| 13–18 Sept 2021 |
Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week |
| 17-19 Sept 2021 |
CCAA Family Residential Weekend, Peak District |
| 21-24 Sept 2021 |
BOA Annual Congress 2021 |
| 4-8 Oct 2021 |
BackCare Awareness Week |
| 16 Oct 2021 |
World Spine Day |
| 30 Oct 2021 |
NICE Interventional Procedures patient q'aire closes |
| 6 Nov 2021 |
British Chiropractic Association Annual Conference (virtual) |
| 18-19 Nov 2021 |
The PCRMM Annual Conference |
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We know that many people value our newsletter, webinars and the fact that we provide a voice for MSK health. We are increasingly asked: given that our membership is made up of organisations, how can an individual support ARMA? For this reason, we have set up a new supporter scheme.
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