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Article Ankle Fusion – A Patient’s Perspective 08/05/09: Clive Montague A little about me: I suffer from Adult Still’s Disease, a form of chronic rheumatoid arthritis which has over the last years, resulted in the failure of a number of my joints. While knees, shoulder and hips have, during that time, been systematically replaced, I have always tried to put off having […]
Article Elbow Surgery The first type of elbow arthritis surgery was carried out by excising the ends of the bones at the joint, either completely or partially, and then covering the remaining bone ends with the patients’ own soft tissue. These methods are still used today but are mostly reserved for situations where the initially inserted metal and […]
Article Knee Replacement Surgery Introduction The development of knee replacement has been slower than hip replacement. Whereas the clinical results of total hip replacement have been satisfactory from the early 1960s, it is fair to say that total knee replacement did not reach the same level of success until the late 1970s and early 1980s. The knee is a […]
Article Knee Replacement – A Patient’s Perspective 03/03/03: Ailsa Bosworth Mr Allum performed a total knee replacement to my left knee at the end of November 2002. My knee had become extremely painful over a period of some months as the gap between the tibia and fibia had reduced until it was bone on bone. My left ankle goes over quite badly […]
Article 10 Healthcare Essentials When you are diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, understandably, you don’t know what you don’t know. It makes a huge difference if your initial experience of care is positive. Understanding what good care looks like from the word go and what to expect and ask for can make a big difference to your emotional and physical […]
Article EULAR Guidelines The information gathered for these updates came through a systematic review of studies focused on the safety and effectiveness of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), when taken alone or in combination and included standard and biologic DMARDs. The task force agreed on 5 overarching principles and 12 recommendations by devising related questions, eliciting expert opinions, […]
Article NICE RA Guidelines NICE interactive flowchart – rheumatoid arthritis Quality standard – rheumatoid arthritis in over 16s This guideline covers diagnosing and managing rheumatoid arthritis. It aims to improve quality of life by ensuring that people with rheumatoid arthritis have the right treatment to slow the progression of their condition and control their symptoms. People should also have […]
Article The DAS28 score DAS stands for Disease Activity Score. It assesses your joints, blood test results – C-reactive protein (CRP) or erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) – and also your own view of how you have been feeling over the past week. The reason it’s called DAS 28 is because it assesses 28 specific joints for tenderness and/or swelling. […]
Article Rheumatoid arthritis & pregnancy PLEASE NOTE: This article is currently in review. The British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) have produced guidelines on pregnancy and RA and these guidelines, last updated in 2022 can be found here.