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About arthritis
Read about arthritis - including each type of condition, exercise, treatments, symptoms, real experiences, data, information for young people and professionals.
- What is arthritis?
- Conditions
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Acute CPP crystal arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Antiphospholipid syndrome
- Arthritis
- Back pain
- Behcets syndrome
- Bursitis
- Calcific periarthritis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Cryoglobulin-associated vasculitis
- Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)
- Elbow pain
- Enthesitis-related JIA
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Extended oligoarthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Foot and ankle pain
- Giant cell arteritis (GCA)
- Gout
- Granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Hammer toes
- Hand and wrist pain
- Henoch–Schönlein purpura
- Hip pain
- Immunoglobulin A vasculitis
- Joint hypermobility
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Knee pain
- Lupus (SLE)
- Lyme arthritis
- Microscopic polyangiitis
- Myositis
- Neck pain
- Oligoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis (OA) of the elbow and shoulder
- Osteoarthritis (OA) of the foot and ankle
- Osteoarthritis of the hand and wrist
- Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip
- Osteoarthritis of the knee
- Osteoarthritis (OA) of the spine
- Osteomalacia
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Palindromic rheumatism
- Plantar fasciitis
- Polyarthritis
- Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN)
- Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Reactive arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Septic arthritis
- Shoulder pain
- Sjögren's syndrome
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Systemic-onset JIA
- Takayasu arteritis
- Valgus heel
- Vasculitis
- Adult-onset Still’s disease
- Tibialis posterior dysfunction
- Newly diagnosed
- While you're waiting
- Order our booklets
- Managing symptoms
- Common aches and pains
- Exercising with arthritis
- Exercises for healthy joints
- Exercises for the back
- Exercises for the elbows
- Exercises for the toes, feet and ankles
- Exercises for the fingers, hands and wrists
- Exercises for the neck
- Exercises for the hips
- Exercises for the knees
- Exercises for the shoulders
- Let's Move with Leon
- Let's Move for Surgery Toolkit
- Living with arthritis
- Cost of living
- Your home
- Driving
- Finding a chair
- Gardening
- Financial support
- Pregnancy
- Sex, relationships and arthritis
- Taking part in research
- Vaccinations
- Work
- Carers
- Treatments
- Drugs
- Abatacept
- Adalimumab
- Allopurinol
- Amitriptyline
- Apremilast
- Aspirin
- Azathioprine
- Baricitinib
- Belimumab
- Bisphosphonates
- Calcitonin
- Calcium and Vitamin D
- Certolizumab pegol
- Ciclosporin
- Colchicine
- Cyclophosphamide
- Denosumab
- Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)
- Drugs for osteoporosis
- Etanercept
- Febuxostat
- Filgotinib
- Gold injections
- Golimumab
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
- Hyaluronan injections
- Hydroxychloroquine
- Ibuprofen
- Iloprost
- Infliximab
- Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg)
- Leflunomide
- Methotrexate
- Mycophenolate
- Painkillers and NSAIDs
- Raloxifene
- Rituximab
- Sarilumab
- Secukinumab
- Steroid injections
- Steroids
- Sulfasalazine
- Teriparatide and parathyroid hormone
- Tocilizumab
- Tofacitinib
- Upadacitinib
- Ustekinumab
- Ixekizumab
- Electronic pain relief
- Splints
- Therapies
- Surgery
- Foot and ankle surgery
- Hand and wrist surgery
- Hip replacement surgery
- Knee replacement surgery
- Shoulder and elbow replacement
- Metal-on-metal hip replacement Q and A
- Types of anaesthetic
- Preparing for surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Who will treat you?
- Complementary and alternative treatments
- What are complementary and alternative treatments?
- Types of complementary treatments
- Acupuncture
- Alexander technique
- Andrographis paniculata
- Anthocyanidins
- Antler velvet
- Aromatherapy
- Blackcurrant seed oil
- Borage seed oil
- Capsaicin
- Cat's claw
- Cetylated fatty acids (CFAs)
- Chondroitin
- Collagen
- Copper bracelets
- Devil's claw
- Diet and nutritional supplements
- Duhuo Jisheng Wan (DJW)
- Evening primrose oil
- Feverfew
- Fish oils
- Flaxseed oil
- Flexiseq
- Ginger
- Glucosamine
- Green-lipped mussel
- Healing
- Herbal medicine
- Homeopathy
- Indian frankincense
- Magnet therapy
- Manipulative therapies
- Massage
- Meditation, t ai chi and yoga
- MSM
- Pine bark extracts
- Relaxation, hypnosis and cognitive therapies
- Rosehip
- SAMe
- Selenium
- Stinging nettle
- Turmeric
- Vitamins A, C and E
- Vitamins B Complex
- Wax bath therapy
- Willow bark
- Young people
- Managing your symptoms
- Living with arthritis
- Information for parents
- Information for teachers
- Young people living with arthritis
- Arthritis tracker
- Your feedback in action
- Barbara Ansell National Network for Adolescent Rheumatology (BANNAR)
- Arthritis Tracker User Guide
- Getting involved
- Young People's Panel
- Your experiences
- Hints and tips
- Complementary medicines hints and tips
- Drugs hints and tips
- Exercise hints and tips
- Living with arthritis hints and tips
- Getting a good night's sleep hints and tips
- Leisure activities hints and tips
- Physical therapies hints and tips
- Self help hints and tips
- Surgery hints and tips
- Your questions answered
- Your questions on alternative supplements
- Your questions on alternative treatments
- Your questions on diet and arthritis
- Your questions on drug side effects
- Your questions on methotrexate
- Your questions on walking and running
- Your questions on aids and equipment
- Your questions on osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
- Your questions on family planning and arthritis
- Your questions on hobbies and arthritis
- Your questions on surgery and arthritis
- Your questions on pain relief
- Your questions on exercise and arthritis
- Your questions on steroids
- Your questions on drugs and specific conditions
- Your stories
- Data and statistics
- Musculoskeletal Data Advisory Group response to The Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2017/18
- Chronic pain in England
- Versus Arthritis Osteoarthritis report 2021
- Healthcare professionals
- Musculoskeletal decision support tools
- Health services improvement
- Nation specific information
- Professional Network and Clinical Updates
- The Professional Network
- Network news
- March 2023 Network News
- January 2023 Network News
- Join a leading research network in AYA rheumatology
- New research
- The Musculoskeletal Health Toolkit
- Joint Potential: Self-management and clinic support – review and evaluation
- Supporting young people with arthritis at school (1)
- September 2022 Network News
- Northern Ireland gets a Good Boost
- Our Involvement Network needs you
- LIFT Trial
- Free virtual information sessions in Wales
- We Are Undefeatable: Latest campaign and resources
- December 2022 Network News
- New pregnancy guidelines launched by The BSR
- Influencing Government to do more for people with arthritis
- Our Online Community for people with arthritis
- Versus Arthritis resources now available on Healthinote
- Let’s Move Essex project
- Official statistics on musculoskeletal health announced
- June 2022 network news
- March 2022 network news
- December 2021 network news
- State of Musculoskeletal Health 2021 statistics now published
- New stretching videos
- News from the nations
- New and improved Arthritis app for teens and young adults
- Introducing our new research strategy
- September 2021 network news
- June 2021 network news
- Physical activity and lifestyle toolkit
- It’s Health Information Week
- News from the nations
- Support package
- Listening to the daily challenges of people with arthritis
- March 2021 network news
- Bringing MSK teaching to life
- Across the nations
- New partnership to improve treatment outcomes for children with arthritis
- Developing a patient-focussed programme
- December 2020 network news
- What’s it like to live with arthritis?
- Top tips for nurses
- The Formula for balancing the complex equation of Chronic Pain
- Empowering patients with persistent pain
- Free webinars and e-learning
- Archived Network News
- November 2020 network news
- September 2020 network news
- June 2020 network news
- March 2020 network news
- December 2019 network news
- October 2019 network news
- August 2019 network news
- June 2019 network news
- April 2019 network news
- February 2019 network news
- November 2018 network news
- August 2018 network news
- May 2018 network news
- February 2018 network news
- November 2017 network news
- August 2017 network news
- Health Equity Group
- Joint matters
- Training and Education Resources
- Training courses for healthcare professionals
- Clinical assessment of patients with musculoskeletal conditions
- Introduction to the musculoskeletal assessment
- The musculoskeletal history
- The musculoskeletal examination: GALS
- The musculoskeletal examination: REMS
- Examination of the hand and wrist
- Examination of the elbow
- Examination of the shoulder
- Examination of the hip
- Examination of the foot and ankle
- Examination of the spine
- Investigations
- Clinical findings in patients
- Children and young people
- Clinical pointers
- Musculoskeletal impact toolkit
- Versus Arthritis and Red Whale Webinars
- Useful resources
- The musculoskeletal examination: REMS
- Musculoskeletal ultrasound
- Shoulder scans
- Anterior transverse scan in neutral position
- Anterior longitudinal scan
- Anterior transverse scan in maximal internal rotation
- Anterior longitudinal scan in maximal internal rotation
- Impingement test
- Acromioclavicular joint scan
- Lateral longitudinal scan in neutral position
- Posterior transverse scan
- Elbow scans
- Anterior humeroradial longitudinal scan
- Anterior humeroulnar longitudinal scan
- Anterior transverse scan
- Posterior longitudinal scan
- Posterior transverse scan
- Lateral longitudinal scan in extension
- Lateral longitudinal scan in flexion
- Medial longitudinal scan in extension
- Wrist scans
- Volar transverse scan
- Volar longitudinal scan
- Dorsal transverse scan
- Dorsal longitudinal scan median
- Dorsal longitudinal scan radial
- Dorsal longitudinal scan ulnar
- Hand scans
- Dorsal longitudinal scan of MCP joint
- Dorsal longitudinal scan of PIP joint
- Dorsal longitudinal scan of DIP joint
- Dorsal transverse scan of MCP joint
- Palmar longitudinal scan of MCP joint
- Palmar longitudinal scan of PIP joint
- Palmar longitudinal scan of DIP joint
- Flexion of DIP joint
- Palmar transverse scan of MCP joint
- Thenar longitudinal scan of MCP joint
- Thenar transverse scan of MCP joint
- Hypothenar longitudinal scan
- Hypothenar transverse scan
- Lateral longitudinal MCP joint scan
- Lateral longitudinal PIP joint scan
- Medial longitudinal PIP joint scan
- Hip scans
- Knee scans
- Suprapatellar longitudinal scan
- Suprapatellar transverse scan in neutral position
- Infrapatellar longitudinal scan
- Infrapatellar transverse scan
- Suprapatellar longitudinal scan in maximal flexion
- Suprapatellar transverse scan in maximal flexion
- Lateral transverse scan
- Lateral longitudinal scan
- Medial longitudinal scan
- Medial transverse scan
- Posterior medial longitudinal scan
- Posterior lateral longitudinal scan
- Posterior transverse scan
- Ankle scans
- Anterior longitudinal scan
- Anterior transverse scan
- Perimalleolar lateral longitudinal scan
- Perimalleolar lateral transverse scan
- Perimalleolar medial longitudinal scan
- Perimalleolar medial transverse scan
- Posterior longitudinal scan
- Posterior transverse scan
- Foot scans
- Paediatric resources
- Moving medicine
- Exercise sheets for your patients
- Arthritis tracker health professionals
- Musculoskeletal clinical assessment in children and young people
- MSK champions
- video resources
- Physical activity
About us
Arthritis impacts millions of people in millions of ways, taking away life’s fundamentals. We believe this is unacceptable. We're Versus Arthritis.
- Who we are
- Values
- Achievements
- What we do
- Work for us
- Applying for a job with us
- What we offer
- Director of People and Organisational Development
- Senior Regional Services Co-ordinator - South & West Wales
- Uwch Gydlynydd Gwasanaethau Rhanbarthol– De a Gorllewin Cymru
- Administrator - Young People and Families Service
- Service Co-ordinator - North Powys
- Cydlynydd Gwasanaeth – North Powys
- Head of Volunteering
- Graphic Designer
- Director of Research and Health Intelligence
- Season's Greetings from Versus Arthritis
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We're working with politicians to take a stand against arthritis. Join us by taking action in our campaigns to end the pain for millions of people.
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We’re here for you on our helpline, online community and arthritis virtual assistant. Together we’ll find the way forward.
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Policy
We're working with MPs and arthritis champions to change policies in MSK health. Learn how we're already making a difference and how you can get involved.
- Our policy positions
- Policy reports
- Joint Replacement Support Package
- Adapted homes, empowered lives
- Working with arthritis
- A Fair Assessment
- Providing physical activity
- Care planning
- Musculoskeletal health
- Consultation responses
- Archived consultation responses 2020
- Archived consultation responses 2019
- Archived consultation responses 2018
- Archived consultation responses 2017
- Policy reports from 2013 and 2014
- Musculoskeletal conditions and multimorbidities report
- Resources for policy makers
- For healthcare practitioners and commissioners
- MSK Recommended Indicator Set
- MSK Recommended Indicator Set for healthcare professionals
- MSK Recommended Indicator Set for people with arthritis
- Versus Arthritis Musculoskeletal Health Questionnaire
- First 100 days
- Parliamentary resources
- Musculoskeletal Calculator
- Find Clinical Commissioning Group data
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Research
Learn more about our approach to research into arthritis, our current grants, application deadlines, anti-TNF treatment, news and involving people in research.
- Introducing our research strategy
- Latest research news
- Research achievements
- Anti-TNF the inflammatory arthritis treatment revolution
- New procedure for early osteoarthritis
- Treating eye inflammation in children
- ESCAPE Pain: exercise to reduce the pain of osteoarthritis
- STarT Back: Targeted treatment for back pain
- Reducing miscarriage in women
- Intensive treatment for inflammatory arthritis
- Information for researchers
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- Our current research
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- Our current research projects
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Understanding the role of the NOS2 gene
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Using zebrafish to understand how and why osteoarthritis develops
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Do anti-inflammatory drugs undermine the use of MRI
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Understanding the role of T cells
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Lessening the impact of fatigue
- Ankylosing spondylitis - RUNX3 gene
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Understanding the role of gut bacteria
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Blood vessels and bone damage
- Antiphospholipid syndrome - Rivaroxaban versus warfarin
- Back pain - Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work
- Complex regional pain syndrome - Using a sensory training system
- Complex regional pain syndrome - Understanding what causes pain
- Dupuytren’s contracture - Identifying the proteins
- Fibromyalgia - Developing a new brain training treatment
- Fibromyalgia - Investigating the role of exercise and sleep
- Fibromyalgia - Maintaining musculoskeletal health study
- Fibromyalgia - Patient centred care for fibromyalgia
- Fibromyalgia - Investigating body and brain mechanisms of pain and fatigue
- Frozen shoulder - The influence of diabetes on treatments for frozen shoulder
- Hypermobility - A novel targeted treatment for reducing anxiety
- IVD degeneration - Developing a new injectable treatment
- Osteoarthritis - Developing a sensor to monitor conditions
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Experimental Arthritis Treatment Centre for Children
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Investigating the role of regulatory T cells
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology Versus Arthritis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Centre for Genetics and Genomics Versus Arthritis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Personalised treatment for childhood arthritis
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Investigating the safety and effectiveness of biologic treatments
- Pain - Identifying children who develop chronic pain after a fracture injury
- Knee pain - Increasing the activity
- Muscle weakness - Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research
- Muscle weakness - Nerve cells that are responsible for musculoskeletal pain
- Muscle weakness - Understanding the role of white blood cells in juvenile dermatomyositis
- Osteoarthritis - Investigating the potential of using broccoli to treat osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis - A first-in-human study to test a scaffold treatment
- Osteoarthritis - Reducing infections of bone implants for people with arthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Mapping molecular changes within the osteoarthritis joint
- Osteoarthritis - Identifying the role of lncRNAs
- Osteoarthritis - Biomarkers and joint pain in military osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Biomechanics and Bioengineering Research Centre Versus Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Cell therapy for osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Centre for Integrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing
- Osteoarthritis - Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis Versus Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis Research Versus Arthritis
- Osteoporosis - Understanding the role of genes
- Osteoarthritis - Developing mathematical tools
- Osteoarthritis - Understanding what causes common hand conditions
- Osteoarthritis - Investigating the potential use of electronic-rehabilitation programmes
- Osteoarthritis - Osteoarthritis genetics to restore healthy joint cartilage
- Osteoarthritis - Using illusions to explore brain processes
- Osteoarthritis - Understanding the role bone marrow
- Osteoarthritis - Harnessing the potential of 17-HDHA a novel biomarker of OA pain status
- Osteoarthritis - Identifying a new treatment strategy
- Osteoarthritis - Improving the quality of life of people with joint pain
- Osteoarthritis - Mechanisms of musculoskeletal pain
- Osteoarthritis - Synovial fluid to define molecular endotypes
- Osteoarthritis - Do lncRNAs control inflammation and joint damage
- Osteoarthritis - Pain Centre Versus Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Primary Care Centre Versus Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis - The role of the nerve growth mediator semaphorin 3A
- Osteoarthritis - Investigating the processes involved in cartilage destruction
- Osteoarthritis - Suramin - a new hope for blocking osteoarthritic cartilage loss?
- Osteoarthritis - Targeting body clocks
- Osteoarthritis - Understanding how changes in molecular structure affect cartilage health and repair
- Osteoarthritis - The role of Agrin
- Osteoarthritis - The role of gender, menopause and sex hormones in hand osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis - The role of microRNAs
- Osteoarthritis - Role of the nerve protein TRPM3
- Osteoarthritis - Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Therapies Centre Versus Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Role of the nerve protein TRPC5
- Osteoarthritis - Improving understanding of stem cells
- Osteoarthritis - Using mathematical models to identify brain changes
- Osteoporosis - Vitamin D supplementation on neonatal bone mass
- Osteoporosis - Developing a screening checklist
- Polymyalgia rheumatica - Understanding long-term outcomes of treatments
- Psoriatic arthritis - Central nervous system pain
- Psoriatic arthritis - Are microbes in the gut and skin responsible
- Rheumatoid arthritis - WORKWELL
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Activated in healthcare
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Understanding the role of white blood cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Creating a computer model of immune cell function
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Defining the role of cell migration
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Oral inflammation promote RA
- Rheumatoid arthritis - How anti-TNF therapy makes T-cells switch roles
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Binding of antibodies to macrophages
- Rheumatoid arthritis - 3D printed wrist splints
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Understanding dying cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Exploring three DNA areas
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Understanding what causes changes to cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Investigating the potential of drug delivery directly to damaged cartilage
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Different forms of joint disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Immune cells in the blood
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Developing a new method to image blood vessel
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Understanding the role of dendritic integrins
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Investigating stem cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Understanding the role of gut bacteria
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Controlling inflammatory cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Communication between different cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Stopping the development of harmful T-cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Understanding why pain persists
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Injecting tolerogenic dendritic cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Steroid production
- Rheumatoid arthritis - A new way to switch off unwanted inflammation
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Can an app improve mental and physical health
- Rheumatoid arthritis - The quality of life impact of living with arthritis
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Norfolk Arthritis Register
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Nurse and Allied Health Professional internship programme
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Developing a wrist support
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Omega-3 fats
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Developing predictive and preventative approaches
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Delivering drugs directly to the joint
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Cartilage damage
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Nav 1.7 proteins in nerves
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Reducing variation in care for people
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Differences in the microbiome
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Do gut bacteria influence immunity
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Using genetics to find novel drug targets
- Rheumatoid arthritis - UK Japan Pain, Action and Movement Network
- Rheumatoid arthritis - UK Research in Musculoskeletal Epidemiology
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Bad stem cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Investigating DNA changes
- Rheumatoid arthritis - The role of proteins
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Manipulating immune cells to treat arthritis
- Scleroderma - Developing a new scoring scheme
- Scleroderma - A study of prednisolone therapy
- Scleroderma - Mycophenolate in limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis
- Scleroderma - Developing a treatment for calcinosis
- Shoulder pain - Better approach to assess and treat shoulder pain
- Sjögren’s syndrome - Investigating lack of response to rituximab
- Sjögren’s syndrome - Salivary electro-stimulation
- Sjögren’s syndrome - Development of Sjögren's syndrome
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - Iron deficiency and fatigue
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - The role of TAM receptors
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - Investigating genetic variations
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - Interferon alpha
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - How can male sex hormones influence the risk of developing juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - Precision type I interferon biomarkers
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - Evaluating the potential of belimumab
- Systemic lupus erythematosis - Understanding blood vessels
- Tendonitis - Achilles tendon pain
- Vasculitis - Vaccine responses in ANCA
- Vasculitis - Bacteria found in the nose
- Scleroderma - Developing a smartphone app
- Traumatic fracture - Developing an injectable medical device
- Rheumatoid arthritis - How do certain types of immune cell protect against joint inflammation
- Chronic pain - Improving detection and treatment of distress in people with chronic MSK pain
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Developing new antibody-based treatments
- Lupus - Does the protein IL-36 play a role in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?
- Osteoporosis - The role of the media in influencing perceptions
- Systemic sclerosis - Understanding how immune cells become unregulated
- Ankylosing spondylitis - Investigating which genes and cell types contribute to inflammation
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Exploring the role of platelet cells in inflammation
- Osteoarthritis - 3D printed surgical guides
- Osteoarthritis - Understanding how TSG-6 protein contributes to the natural protection of joint tissues
- Osteoarthritis - Targeting the cell-signalling protein lymphotactin
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Using magnetic stimulation
- Fibromyalgia - Using virtual reality body illusions
- Chronic pain - Does nerve inflammation lead to chronic pain following whiplash?
- Sjogren’s syndrome - Development of a digital self-management tool
- Osteoarthritis - Developing a tailored exercise programme
- Scleroderma - Can immune suppressant drugs help
- Rheumatoid arthritis - A new questionnaire for detecting central pain sensitisation in people
- Back pain - Do bacterial infections in the spine contribute to disc degeneration
- Fibromyalgia - Developing a non-invasive technique to diagnose small fibre nerve damage
- Osteoarthritis - Can we identify biological markers in joint fluid
- Osteoarthritis - Investigating the role of a protein Rbfox1
- Low back pain - How do people with low back pain adapt their posture
- Osteoarthritis - Targeting osteoarthritic pain through Proteinase Activated Receptor 2
- Ankylosing Spondylitis - Targeting messengers in the immune system
- Osteoarthritis - How do immune cells detect and help to repair cartilage damage
- Rheumatoid arthritis - How do gut bacteria influence the development
- Systemic sclerosis - Using artificial intelligence to monitor the progression
- Osteoarthritis - How do serpin proteins help to protect against cartilage damage
- Shoulder pain - Targeting the cells driving frozen shoulder
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis - Improving communication between young people and clinicians
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Studying the interactions between different cells that can cause joint inflammation
- Fibromyalgia - Developing a better way to detect overactive nerves in chronic pain
- Vasculitis - Improving healthcare delivery for patients with rare rheumatic diseases
- Systemic lupus erythematosus - Understanding the role of TAM receptors
- Osteoporosis - Improving hip fracture care in England and Wales
- COVID-19 - The role of the immune system in developing fatigue
- COVID-19 - The effects of COVID-19 on the immune cells of people with rheumatoid arthritis
- Osteoarthritis - Does loss of the cartilage component Fibrillin-1 contribute to osteoarthritis development?
- Rheumatoid arthritis - How is the daily cycle of rheumatoid arthritis symptoms linked to the body clock and the bacteria in the gut?
- Musculoskeletal conditions - Risk of persistent opioid use
- Rheumatoid Arthritis - How can digital support platforms assist
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Developing a device to monitor arthritis
- Lupus - The impact of COVID-19
- Axial spondyloarthritis - Replacing gut bacteria
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis - Analysing immune cells
- Rheumatoid arthritis - Studying immune cells
- Rheumatoid Arthritis - Developing new treatments to target FGF
- Fibromyalgia - Developing a diagnostic test
- Osteoarthritis - Understanding the role of specific joint cells in localised joint pain
- Chronic pain - The relationship between maladaptive learning and MSK pain
- Chronic pain - Targeting and silencing spontaneous nerve signals of pain
- Osteoarthritis - Understanding how molecules involved in healing produce pain relief
- Chronic pain - Understanding endocannabinoid-induced pain relief
- Chronic pain - Designing and testing an at home system for monitoring nerve health
- Chronic pain - Understanding the mechanisms of pain in long-COVID
- Osteoporosis - Understanding and improving osteoporosis diagnosis and treatment
- Lupus - Understanding the immune system
- Chronic pain - Causes and risk factors associated with chronic pain
- Chronic pain - Understanding the factors that cause sciatica to become persistent pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome - Developing new, targeted drug treatments
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