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Arthritis Action launches new data on impact of osteoarthritis on younger adults.
To support World Arthritis Day, Arthritis Action commissioned YouGov to re-examine data from its 2022 Impact on Daily Life report on the lifestyle impacts for those living with osteoarthritis at a younger age. The resulting new report “The Impact of Osteoarthritis” covers themes such as work, relationships, intimacy, and fertility as well as social life.
Read more on the arthritisaction.org.uk website.
Pfizer has issued a request for proposals for their Global Awards for Advancing Chronic Pain Research.
Proposals are invited in a range of areas of interest related to osteoarthritis and chronic pain including understanding unmet medical needs and multidisciplinary approaches to management of OA.
Application due date: 22 September 2021.
Find out more here.
New online infographic posters summarising the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance relevant to allied health professionals are now available online. Produced by the Institute of Osteopathy and endorsed by NICE, these easy to use resources provide a quick reference guide to current NICE guidance which can be printed and displayed in a clinical setting and support CPD.
There are currently three topics available; osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and spondyloarthritis, with plans to develop others in the near future.…
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On 6 September 2018, The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) published an update to a set of recommendations for the management of hand osteoarthritis. The recommendations report on new evidence made since a first EULAR report was published in 2007.
See the press release (opens in PDF) for the five overarching principles and ten recommendations that were agreed upon in the EULAR document.
ESCAPE-pain is a 6 week rehabilitation programme for individuals with knee and hip osteoarthritis which aims to educate participants on their condition, self-management and coping strategies as well as exercise. The Health Innovation Network, the Academic Health Science Network, has been working hard for the past 3+ years to spread the adoption of ESCAPE-pain across the U.K, and recently, has been awarded a grant by Sport England as part of their ‘Active Ageing’ project to target inactive adults in particular and increase access to the programme.…
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ARMA Stoke would like to let you know they are having their 3rd meeting of the year for the ARMA/Haywood user group.
This will be on Friday 15th September at 1pm in the lecture room at the Haywood Hospital, Burslem, Stoke -on-Trent.
Refreshments will be available from 12:30pm.
Presentations on the day include Brighter Futures (Mental Health), Osteoarthritis Day for patients, the Blue Iris Project and other updates from the hospital.
A Mediterranean diet can reduce markers of inflammation and improve knee flexion and hip rotation in people with osteoarthritis, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Kent and published in the Journal of Nutrition Health and Aging this week.
The study, commissioned by UK charity Arthritis Action, examined the effects of a Mediterranean type diet on 99 patients with osteoarthritis. Half of the participants followed a Mediterranean type diet for 16 weeks, whereas the other half continued their usual dietary behaviour.…
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