Posts

• Stem Cells and Knee Osteoarthritis: Could a Ground-breaking Trial Change the Way We Treat Knee Pain?
  
• Beyond the Pain: Finding Freedom and Community
  
• Why Do Some People Get A Curved Back As They Age and What Can I Do To Avoid It?
  
• Sleeping with Pain: Why a Good Night’s Rest Really Matters
  
• Meet Nociception: The Biological Key To Understanding Pain
  
• TAG- Proof of Concession
  
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Presentation Series: Thanks to Alike WA
  
• Supporting Stronger Bones Through Life
  
• Understanding Chronic Shoulder Pain: Insights From A Recent Study
  
• The Enigma Of Palindromic Rheumatism
  
• Osteoporosis And The Birds
  
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Understanding a Complex Autoimmune Disease
  
• HBF Run for a Reason 2025
  
• Cost-of-living pressure and poor access to services a tipping point for Aussies battling complex pain condition
  
• What happens to teeth as you age? And how can you extend the life of your smile?
  
• Understanding and Reducing Fall Risks: Practical Tips for Older Adults
  
• Massage and Arthritis
  
• Rheumatoid Arthritis: Health Implications in Western Australia
  
• Gingerbread Is A Delicious Yet Ancient Staple Of The Holiday Season, And Its Spices May Have Some Surprising Health Benefits
  
• Where Are They Now? Abbey’s Journey with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
  
• Osteoporosis: It’s Not Just The Bones That Need Conditioning!
  
• Health Groups Rally for Urgent Action on Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Care
  
• Using Video Games to get Teens off the Couch to Build Better Bones and Joints
  
• Healthy Living with Arthritis Seminar
  
• Abatacept (Orencia®) – Update
  
• Camp Freedom: A Life-Changing Experience for Kids Like Jessica
  
• 9 signs you have inflammation in your body. Could an anti-inflammatory diet help?
  
• AJ Smith Society
  
• Visiting Rheumatology Consultant for Provision of Rheumatology Service in the Kimberley Region
  
• Both men and women need strong bones, but their skeletons grow differently across ages
  
• The Carers Charter Factsheet
  
• Sore joints now it’s getting cold? It’s tempting to be less active – but doing more could help you feel better
  
• The Future Burden of Arthritis in Australia: Projections to 2040
  
• Staying Moving, Staying Strong Project
  
• Knowledge Enhances Your Skills: The KEYS to arthritis self-management
  
• Osteoporosis: Planning Your Exercise Program
  
• Rise and Shine: How to Beat Morning Stiffness and Boost Mobility
  
• Medicinal Cannabis and the Elderly: The risks outweigh the benefits
  
• Paracetamol versus ibuprofen – which works best and when?
  
• How to care for your sore hands and wrists when your life is online
  
• Pioneering Progress: Arthritis & Osteoporosis WA’s Journey from Vision to Impact
  
• 8 Foods to Keep your Joints Healthy
  
• Cheaper medicines from 60-day dispensing
  
• Researchers at Curtin University are exploring ways to support young people manage their pain and mental wellbeing with digital solutions
  
• Update on Psoriatic disease
  
• Navigating the NDIS: Some helpful tips from Local Area Coordinators regarding accessing support and funding through the NDIS
  
• Celebrating AOWA’s Golden Jubilee: The Remarkable Story of Arthritis Care in Western Australia
  
• Polymyalgia Rheumatica: A Bane Of Old Age
  
• What is Fibromyalgia? The Saga Continues
  
• Navigating JIA with Confidence: The Taking Charge Online Program for Teens
  
• Why is Philanthropy Important?
  
• Australians ‘in the dark’ with arthritis: one of our most prevalent and costly diseases
  
• Putting into question: The value of expensive biological therapy for people with rheumatoid arthritis in Western Australia
  
• Hench’s Hunch: Rheumatology’s Sherlock Holmes
  
• Alcohol and its impact on health- how much is safe to drink?
  
• Bone and Joint Literacy in the Australian Curriculum
  
• Spotlight on analgesics as part of osteoarthritis management
  
• Osteoporosis: It’s not just the bones that need conditioning!
  
• Strengthening Aching Joints. The Dilemma of People Living with Osteoarthritis.
  
• An Australian Living Guideline for the Management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
  
• How are wrists and hands affected by arthritis?
  
• The Taxonomy War in Rheumatology
  
• Children with Arthritis Depend on Camp Freedom
  
• Abatacept (Orencia®) shortages now resolved
  
• $21.6 Million for Juvenile Arthritis and other Musculoskeletal Disorders
  
• Use your Will, to help us remove pain and disablement from our lives…
  
• AOWA leading a project in Aboriginal Health
  
• Reflections About Pain
  
• Staying Moving, Staying Stronger (SMSS)
  
• Information about the Tocilizumab (Actemra®) Shortage
  
• Children and families with arthritis struggle with high out of pocket costs
  
• Information about the abatacept (Orencia®) Shortage
  
• Supplier Form
  
• Keep Up-To-Date with the Latest News and Events
  
• Disability advocates are calling on the federal government to end age discrimination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme
  
• New Parliamentary Inquiry into Childhood Rheumatic Diseases
  
• AOWA Researcher selected into Harvard Medical School Post-graduate program
  
• AOWA and UWA study finds JIA camps enhances wellbeing, resilience, and social connection
  
• Curcumin – Health benefits and cautions explained
  
• Gout – True or False? The Peculiar Case of M’Garry
  
• Defining the burden of disease for patients with Juvenile Arthritis in Western Australia – an ongoing study
  
• “getting around to it…”
  
• Information about Tocilizumab (Actemra) shortage
  
• ARA COVID-19 Vaccination for People with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRD)
  
• Small Changes can make a Huge Difference
  
• Arthritis and Exercise in Winter
  
• Cloudy with a Chance of Rheumatism
  
• How Prevalent and Severe is Rheumatoid Arthritis in WA?
  
• Gout Q&A Video
  
• What is Gout?
  
• Peter’s Story on Living with Gout
  
• Camp 2020
  
• Continuing to empower people through self-management
  
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
  
• Ankylosing Spondylitis: My Unwanted Life Partner
  
• Continuing to Empower People through Self-Management
  
• The Placebo Effect in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis
  
• Lana tackles arthritis to climb to dizzying heights
  
• Living Well with Rheumatoid Arthritis
  
• My Chronic Pain Journey: From despair to diagnosis
  
• COVID-19 Vaccination for Rheumatology Patients
  
• WA Rheumatology Research Update 2020
  
• Lupus Research
  
• What is Gout?
  
• Coeliac disease and osteoporosis
  
• The Arthritis Getaway for young adults
  
• Social Lines program offers connection for those in need
  
• Aussies at greater risk of osteoarthritis
  
• Making the most of your eyesight
  
• AOWA to Resume Restricted Hydrotherapy Services
  
• An Update on Our Face to face Services
  
• Medicinal Cannabis: Is it a cure-all?
  
• It’s Time to Change the View about Knee Osteoarthritis
  
• Maintain Your Wellbeing with our New Online Programs
  
• Managing Osteoporosis during COVID-19
  
• AOWA Temporarily Cease Face to Face Service Delivery
  
• COVID-19 Update: 18 March 2020
  
• COVID-19 in Western Australia: Am I at greater risk if I have arthritis?
  
• Curcumin: Health benefits and cautions explained
  
• What makes joints pop and crack and is it a sign of disease?
  
• ‘Should I stop taking glucosamine for my osteoarthritis?’
  
• New campaign reveals blind spot for older Australians
  
• Handy household tips
  
• Should we take supplements to enhance our calcium intake?
  
• Seminars – Osteoporosis Consumer Event
  
• Exercise – The Joint Movement (Arthritis Exercise)
  
• JIA Hydrotherapy
  
• Exercise -The Joint Movement (Warm Water Exercise)
  
• Support Groups – Osteoarthritis
  
• What do men and women need to know to manage osteoporosis in 2019?
  
• Can you meet your recommended dietary intake for calcium from diet alone?
  
• What care should you receive when you have musculoskeletal pain?
  
• Exercise – Tai Chi for Arthritis
  
• Support Groups – Osteoarthritis
  
• Psoriatic Arthritis as prevelant as Rheumatoid
  
• Does Cannabis have a place in Rheumatology practice?
  
• Rheumatoid factors are not dangerous in themselves
  
• Busselton Health Study Results: The impact of uric acid (UA) levels on cardiovascular disease and mortality at a population level.
  
• Born to Run (and how I overcame the hurdles along the way!)
  
• “Oh Mummy, you look as though you’ve been ironed…!”
  
• Psoriatic Arthritis and Exercise
  
• Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: Diagnosis makes a difference
  
• Guidance for the use of medicinal cannabis
  
• Is good work good for us?
  
• Ergonomics and the benefits of good work for individuals with Musculoskeletal disorders
  
• Spotlight on Psoriatic Arthritis
  
• Sabrina Hahn: Arthritis no match for Australia’s gardening expert
  
• Giant Cell Arteritis
  
• Changes to patient access for medicines containing codeine
  
• Hydrotherapy program eases pain for children with arthritis
  
• Camp Stretch: A new beginning for children with Ehlers Danlos and Joint Hypermobility
  
• Arthritis and exercise in winter
  
• The importance of quality bone density testing
  
• Winter falls and risks
  
• Digital health technologies could help young people with musculoskeletal pain: so why aren’t we using them?
  
• Kids get arthritis too!
  
• Juvenile Arthritis is a childhood missed
  
• Building on strong foundations
  
• Qld University begins human trials for arthritis vaccine
  
• Ross River virus disease in Western Australia
  
• Making Sense of Pain workshop 2018
  
• Yoga promotes wellbeing of teens with chronic pain
  
• Living with chronic pain
  
• The importance of research study and how you can help improve health care
  
• IgA vasculitis in Western Australia
  
• New standard of care for people with osteoarthritis of the knee
  
• Kids helping kids with arthritis
  
• Digital health technologies to assist young people with persistent musculoskeletal pain
  
• My Health Record opt-out period extended to 31 Jan 2019
  
• Draft National Strategic Action Plan for Arthritis
  
• Arthritis Today – Winter 2018 Issue
  
• A breakthrough treatment for osteoarthritis could delay the need for hip and knee replacements
  
• Arthritis and Osteoporosis WA Research Scholarship in Bone and Mineral Endocrinology
  
• Nurses the key to caring for arthritis
  
• Check iron levels before supplementing
  
• Frequency, presentation, and outcome of Takayasu Arteritis in Western Australia
  
• Why do we fall over when we get older?
  
• Need to improve care for patients with chronic conditions
  
• What is self-management?
  
• Camp Freedom coordinator goes to Eular 2016
  
• Australians falling short on calcium intake and consuming too much sodium, survey finds
  
• Stem Cell Treatments & Regulation – a quick guide for consumers
  
• Painful Transitions Report 2016
  
• AOWA President Dr Jack Edelman awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM)
  
• Younger Australians hit hard by arthritis
  
• Public safety must not be pushed sside in Government quest for Biosimilar budget savings
  
• Arthritis: Count the cost and bank the savings
  
• Arthritis may increase risk of falling into poverty
  
• Targeting fatty acids could help to treat arthritis
  
• New drug trials could lead to a ground-breaking cure for arthritis
  
• Joint pain from the gut
  
• Making Sense of Pain workshop
  
• $2.7M role to target ‘poor cousin’ of chronic diseases
  
• Gut microbes may play a role in AS
  
• Aussies propose fracture threshold
  
• Alarm over Ross River virus
  
• Daily walking can help reduce Osteoarthritis-related limitations – Arthritis UK Research
  
• Australians living longer but suffering more chronic diseases
  
• New priority for arthritis
  
• Osteoporosis Burden of Disease Report 2012
  
• Men twice as likely to die from weak bones
  
• New Vice Patron appointed
  
• Paracetamol warning – Arthritis Australia’s response
  
• New immune cell ‘could help to combat autoimmune disease’
  
• Address specialist shortages to avoid disability associated with rheumatoid arthritis
  
• Predicting Fractures in Patients with Osteoporosis
  
• Reduce obesity and joint injuries to cut the rise in joint replacements
  
• Fact or Fiction: A blood test for Fibromyalgia?
  
• Salmon may help cut risk of arthritis
  
• RA increases risk for blood clots
  
• Mushrooms are vitamin D factories
  
• Broccoli could help prevent arthritis
  
• Aussie women’s untold burden – Insights into RA
  
• Bone and Joint School Initiative
  
• Stress an important factor in Fibromyalgia
  
• EULAR to publish new treatment guidelines for Rheumatoid Arthritis
  
• Fibromyalgia secrets uncovers the hidden elements of Fibromyalgia
  
• Australians’ experiences with access to health care in 2011-12