Category: Events & Meetings

Webinar bookings sky rocket

Women and Axial Spondyloarthritis: diagnosis and management

Friday 9 October 2020, 12.30 – 1.30pm

Registrations for our next webinar have sky rocketed with hundreds of bookings from healthcare practitioners including many from primary care. If you haven’t booked yet, there’s still time to register. The webinar is free and informative.

Men with Axial SpA are more likely than women to experience changes to the bones and fusion, and thus they can be picked up using x-ray. Women are more likely than men to experience inflammation rather than fusion, which is visible on MRI but not on x-ray.

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Bone and Joint Week 2020 Resources

This Bone and Joint Week, 12-20 October 2020, good musculoskeletal health is now more important than ever. Whether you have a musculoskeletal condition, or you’re a commissioner, GP, health professional or employer, find resources on this page for help with musculoskeletal health.

People with bone, joint and muscle conditions (musculoskeletal conditions)

Arthritis Action: https://www.arthritisaction.org.uk

CCAA Kids with Arthritis: https://www.ccaa.org.uk/

Ehlers Danlos Support UK: www.ehlers-danlos.org…

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ARMA conference: networking, great speakers and ‘provocations’

Lead Sponsor

Working Together to change the face of MSK

30 November 2020
Venue: online

This one-day conference is a special multi-disciplinary virtual event with speakers you’ll enjoy listening to on working across boundaries, BAME communities, partnership with patients and pain care.

A conference with a difference – we also have ‘provocation’ talks – designed to get a reaction and perhaps thinking outside the box. NHS leaders are attending the event and there will be a virtual networking space and an exhibition too.…

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‘Unlocking Exercise’ webinar and live Q&A

Arthritis Action will hold their latest webinar “Unlocking Exercise Webinar: Barriers and Benefits – Eating Well, Thinking Positively, and Getting Stronger” on Wednesday 30th September, 11:00am – 12:00pm.

The webinar will explore a holistic approach to restarting exercise and preventing the loss of strength and function, for people living with arthritis. The charity’s expert panel will cover the barriers and benefits to exercise, including; immunity, independence, community engagement and mental wellbeing.

There will also be a live Q&A on the topic at the end of the webinar.…

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Virtual Event: Workforce Challenges in MSK Services

The Institute of Osteopathy is hosting a virtual event that will discuss the findings of an independent panel report on the role of osteopaths as Allied Health Professionals with the NHS and delivery of MSK services.

ADDRESSING THE WORKFORCE CHALLENGE IN MSK SERVICES TO IMPROVE PATIENT CARE

THE ROLE OF OSTEOPATHS AS AHPs IN DELIVERING MSK SERVICES

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00 – 17:30

Suzane Rastrick, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer NHS England will be speaking at the event, together with Professor Adrian Newland CBE, co-author of the report.…

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Bone and Joint Week – 12-20 October 2020

Good musculoskeletal health – now more than ever

What is Bone and Joint Week?

Every October, Bone and Joint Week helps get people thinking about one of the most widespread and pressing health issues of our times – musculoskeletal health and, in these unprecedented times, good musculoskeletal health is so important, now more than ever.  

The coronavirus covid-19 pandemic changed the roadmap for achieving good musculoskeletal health. During covid-19, cancelled treatments, limited access, increased waiting times in pain, lockdown effect on mental wellbeing, exercise and weight-gain were all obstacles to good musculoskeletal health.…

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TWEETCHAT Power to the people – Coproducing MSK

TWEETCHAT Power to the people – Coproducing MSK

#MSKCoPro

21 Sept 2020 7-8pm

To enable lifelong MSK health within all communities, we must coproduce MSK services with people with relevant lived experience. MSK leads in NHSE/I are coproducing the National Musculoskeletal Strategy with an MSK Lived Experience Group (MSK LEG).

Join @WeAreARMA and the MSK LEG members for a TweetChat all things MSK in these COVID times.

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PCRMM 2020 Conference online

The PCRMM annual conference will be running again this year, 12-13 November.

We have been through unprecedented times over the past few months, and this year the conference will be held online. The PCRMM Society is determined not let to these extraordinary times affect the content of the conference which is promising to be as interesting and engaging as ever.

This year, the conference will have an FCP stream to encourage and strengthen the role of FCPs within primary care. There will also be fascinating lectures on pain management, osteoporosis, podiatry and spondyloarthritis amongst others, and the PCRMM Society looks forward to extending a welcome to more of you on this new interactive platform.…

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RA Awareness Week: 7-13 September 2020

With RAAW 2020, NRAS aims to educate and inform the public about exactly what rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is and how it impacts those living with the condition. This year, and taking into account recent events, the focus will be on ‘Mental Wellbeing’ and the ways in which you can improve your mental health and wellbeing.

 

Some areas of focus will be: learning new skills, connecting with people, being more physically active, mindfulness, giving and kindness. Throughout the week NRAS will also share some personal stories, raise awareness, and fundraise to support those living with RA. …

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