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Psoriasis Association Conference 2022 – booking now

Book now for the Psoriasis Association Conference & AGM 2022

Booking is now open for the Psoriasis Association’s 2022 Annual Conference and AGM, taking place on Saturday 18 June 2022. This year’s conference will be the Association’s first ever hybrid event, so you will have the choice to either join in the room or on Zoom.

As always, both Psoriasis Association members and non-members will be welcomed to the Conference, with tickets for members free of charge, and tickets for non-members only £5.…

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BCA Conference 2022: The Homecoming

The British Chiropractic Association opens booking for its annual conference – 5-6 November 2022

It is with great pleasure that the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) announces to the MSK community that booking for their annual conference is now officially open. This year’s conference will be the first in-person event for the Association since 2019 and will take place on 5-6 November at The Vox Conference Centre, Birmingham. The 2022 conference theme, The Homecoming, is a very special one for the BCA, as it celebrates their new Mission: to be the home of chiropractors who put patients first, following the completion of their strategic repositioning in 2021.…

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How treating my rheumatic disease has influenced my hopes for the future

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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JIA on Airing Pain by Pain Concern

Coming soon from Pain Concern will be a podcast episode on juvenile arthritis. Watch out for new additions to the Airing Pain programme on the Pain Concern website. Paul Evans, the award-winning producer of the podcast series, was at the Juvenile Arthritis family weekend event in Crieff in March, run by the Scottish Network for Arthritis in Children.

Each year, SNAC brings together a number of families recently affected by JIA and some of the country’s leading paediatric rheumatology experts for a weekend at Crieff Hydro hotel in Perthshire.…

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New national MSK clinical leads for Wales

Wales’s new national MSK clinical leads and persistent pain clinical leads have been appointed by Welsh Government and are now in post.

Meinir Jones (Hywel Dda UHB) and Robert Letchford (Cardiff & Vale UHB) have been appointed for arthritis/MSK.
Sue Jeffs (Aneurin Bevan UHB) and Owen Hughes (Powys tHB) have been appointed for pain.

All roles have been appointed for an initial 12-month period. The clinical leads will work with the Welsh Government to provide strategic oversight and support service development.

Why you should consider yoga

New Arthritis Action webinar: Why you should consider yoga if you are living with arthritis

Arthritis Action’s Services Development Manager and Dietitian Martin Lau and Yoga and Pilates Instructor Tracy Weare, present the latest webinar for Arthritis Action on the benefits of yoga for people living with arthritis.

The webinar includes a 30-minute practical chair-based yoga session, followed by question and answer.

A recording of the webinar is available to watch on Arthritis Action’s YouTube channel, and on their webinars web page.

Online Specialty Series for paediatric MSK physiotherapists

During Orthopaedic Research U.K.’s popular online courses for paediatric orthopaedic physiotherapists, it became obvious that there was a lot of interest in the sub-specialties from clinicians with highly specialised caseloads. In response ORUK is launching the Specialty Series of intensive and focused online courses devoted to particular areas of clinical practice. The first online series was attended by physiotherapists with a particular interest in neurodisability, and received outstanding feedback. As a result, there are plans for two more online series in 2022: a summer course devoted to MSK paediatric physiotherapists and a winter course focused on paediatric feet.…

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ESCAPE-pain winter newsletter

Enabling Self-management and Coping with Arthritic Pain using Exercise (ESCAPE-pain): winter newsletter

Orthopaedic Research UK has been thrilled to see so many ESCAPE-pain classes restarting or coming on board, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic.

ORUK has especially enjoyed receiving participant feedback showing how the programme is helping people to improve their quality of life. Please read more programme updates in the latest newsletter which has information for people living with joint pain as well as information for providers.

Calling all rheumatology services!

NASS has launched the search for the third round of teams to join the Aspiring to Excellence programme. The successful applicants will have the opportunity to plan and implement projects aimed at reducing diagnosis times for people with axial SpA.

Aspiring to Excellence is an award programme designed to encourage and recognise service improvement in axial SpA care. It is open to rheumatology services across the UK. The programme is run by NASS in partnership with BritSpA and the NHS Transformation Unit.…

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What do patients value in healthcare services?

NASS is working on a piece of research with Headstrong Thinking. They want to know what people value in their health services, from the time they first visit a health professional with symptoms of axial SpA, to long term management of their condition.

NASS wants to reach as many people as possible at every point of their journey. If you are treating someone with, or that you suspect might have axial SpA, please do share the Patient Values Survey with them.