Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Influencing policy and care together for best lifelong musculoskeletal health
NHS England has published a new decision support tool – Making decisions to help you live well with chronic primary pain.
The resource is intended as a decision aid for people aged 16 years and over with chronic primary pain to help you think about what options you might like to consider to help you live well with pain.
You can find the decision support tool here.
Versus Arthritis are excited to launch their newly updated paediatric clinical assessment guide for healthcare professionals supporting children and young people with arthritis and MSK conditions.
The guide can be accessed online or a free printed copy can be ordered from the Versus Arthritis online shop.
If you have rheumatoid arthritis and think that oral health shouldn’t be top of your list – you may be surprised! Findings from recent studies suggest that there are significant links between oral health and those living with RA and other common co-morbidities such as heart disease and diabetes.
In this NRAS Live chat, Ailsa will be joined by Iain Chapple, Professor of Periodontology at University of Birmingham and Maddy Roberts, our Families and Young Peoples Service Manager from the JIA-at-NRAS team.…
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Orthopaedic Research (ORUK) recently hosted the first National Bunions Think Tank, in Association with Rosetrees Trust. The Think Tank included many of the country’s leading foot health experts, including primary care physicians, podiatrists, physiotherapists, surgeons, academics and research funders, who came together to discuss ways to improve patient care and identify areas requiring further research. 
The consensus in the room was that bunions, despite affecting around 10 million people in the UK alone, is underfunded and under-recognised as a serious, debilitating condition that impacts people’s personal, social and professional lives.…
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Edition 143 of Airing Pain focuses on the treatment of pain, the importance of catering treatment to a person’s individual genetic makeup, and why addressing the psychological dimensions of pain is crucial in treating it effectively.
The process of finding a medication or treatment that works for a person often involves a lot of trial and error, which can be a frustrating process for someone to go through. This process can be side-stepped through the use of personalised medicine, where information about a person’s genetic makeup is used to tailor and optimise their treatment so it is as effective as possible. …
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SOMM’s tutors get together at their Annual Study Day early in the year, as well as meeting on SOMM’s individual courses. As part of their development programme, relevant references to support the musculoskeletal medicine approach are shared, to support the content of SOMM’s Foundation in Musculoskeletal Medicine module.
MSK educators and practitioners might also find them useful and can find them on the document here.
Arthritis Action is pleased to launch their new season of webinars with ‘Dietary Management of Gout: Science or Fiction?’ It was recorded in February and will soon be available on the Arthritis Action webinars page and YouTube channel.
During the webinar, the guest speaker and gout expert Dr Lorraine Watson discusses what gout is and guides us through the current evidence on nutrition and gout. Lorraine is joined by Martin Lau, Arthritis Action Services Manager & Dietitian and Member Services Manager Terry Urbanczyk, hosting the event.
A paper evaluating the effectiveness of the ESCAPE-pain programme delivered in community centres – “Community‐based care for people with chronic knee and hip pain: Preliminary clinical outcomes and healthcare utilisation for ESCAPE‐pain” – shows the positive impact of the programme on levels of participant activity. Before the programme, only 24% of participants were classified as ‘fairly active/active’ (doing more than 30 minutes of activity per week); after the programme, 78% were classified as ‘fairly active/active’; 6 months later, 69% were still ‘fairly active/active’.…
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Signpost your patients to regional axial SpA self-management sessions
NASS is running online self-management sessions for people living in different regions of the UK. Follow the link to see what areas we’re currently covering. If you’d like promotional materials to invite your patients, please email zoe@nass.co.uk.
After deliberations on a record-breaking 1456 entries and 223 projects, teams and organisations have been shortlisted for the HSJ Awards 2023. One of the finalists is getUBetter, ARMA’s associate member organisation.
getUBetter’s work with South West London Integrated Care System and South West London NHS to deliver digital self-management support to their population has been shortlisted for the Partnership of the Year award at the HSJ Awards 2023, recognising their commitment to collaborative co-design with patient at the centre.
