Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance
Influencing policy and care together for best lifelong musculoskeletal health
BASRaT is proud to partner with Therapy Expo this year and has nominated speakers across a range of topics, including: women’s health; persistent pain; S&C in non-elite populations; MSK ultrasound and many more.
The BASRaT team is looking forward to meeting more of our registrants in person. Therapy Expo takes place 23 – 24 of November 2022 at Birmingham NEC.
“MSK Across Multi-Disciplinary First Contact Care”
11 and 12 November 2022
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The Primary Care Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Medicine Society is delighted to announce this year’s conference. The success of past conferences engenders motivation for the Society to try and improve each year and offer more of what will educate, stimulate and benefit you all.
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The timetable will be available soon, check their website for details and updates.
Tuesday 31 May, 7 – 8:30pm
This engaging and extremely interesting webinar will be given by Ian Bernstein and Dan Bourke; they explore what works and what doesn’t work for managing low back pain and sciatica in primary and community care.
They combine a review of NICE guidelines with a discussion about how they implement them in practice.
Questions that they will discuss include:
Blood Matters is the new National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) guide to the blood tests used in managing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and adult juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).
Blood tests are an important part of both the diagnosis and monitoring of RA and JIA, but the different tests, abbreviations and numbers can be confusing, and it might not always be clear to you what the purpose of each test is, why it’s important and what the results mean.
NRAS has created this resource because they strongly believe that having a good understanding of your blood tests is important to help you to manage your condition and improve outcomes.…
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The Royal Osteoporosis Society has launched their new #BoneMatters programme, a series of online expert information events.
The first webinar of the series is on Medication Support: helping people make informed decisions about recommended osteoporosis drug treatment. Join the ROS on Tuesday 17 May to hear from leading experts Dr Nicky Peel, Dr Zoe Paskins and Professor David Armstrong on key topics to help you make decisions about your osteoporosis drug treatment.
Topics include:
Guest blog by Chantal Lyons. This essay was the national selection entry winner for the UK for the Edgar Stene Prize 2022
Everything changed in the year I turned twenty-three. In the spring, I began to run, dragging my unfit body off the sofa and into the local park. In the summer, I began to dream of running the London Marathon like my father had. And in the autumn, I could no longer ignore the white-hot pain growing in my hips and back.…
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The Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) is delighted to launch Informatree, a brand new, free website resource aimed at helping people with psoriatic arthritis to live well.
People living with psoriatic arthritis worked together with healthcare professionals who treat people with the condition, psychologists and researchers to develop the new resource. The contents were agreed upon by people living with psoriatic arthritis and clinicians.
The project was led by the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and informed by people living with psoriatic arthritis worldwide.…
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The Senior Health Professionals Engagement Officer role involves working with colleagues to deepen NASS’s relationships with healthcare professionals and raise awareness and engagement with two key programmes: Act on Axial SpA and Aspiring to Excellence.
The successful candidate will create and promote new resources to healthcare professionals and promote NASS’s work through a range of channels.
Recovery from knee replacement surgery can be delayed by pain and swelling caused by the operation. Encouraging range of movement and mobilisation as soon as possible after surgery is part of the ‘Enhanced Recovery after Surgery’ pathway at Cheltenham General Hospital.
Thanks to a grant from the Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust (GAT), and in partnership with PhysioLab Technologies who have designed an innovative cryotherapy system, Orthopaedic Surgeon Peter Kempshall will undertake a pilot study of 200 knee replacement patients to undergo cryotherapy postoperatively, starting in July.…
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Chiropractic Awareness Week, hosted by the British Chiropractic Association, starts on Monday 4 April
Chiropractic Awareness Week (CAW) 2022 will commence on 4 April and this year’s theme will be Rigour, Evidence, Relevance: The Future of UK Chiropractic Care and Building Connections with Mainstream Healthcare.
The British Chiropractic Association’s primary focus for this year’s CAW (4-10 April) will be to showcase the chiropractic profession as a regulated, evidence-informed, ethical and reliable health profession to their peers in the wider healthcare community.…
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