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Interviews, Articles & Presentations

Members of the Australian NAN regularly participate in seminars and programs focused on musculoskeletal conditions as well as giving interviews and producing articles and presentations. This page contains some of these.

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SOURCE Hopkins Arthritis
DATE January 25 2010
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Report: Women In Pain

This report details the public lecture / hypothetical held in Perth in March 2008 as part of the IASP’s Global Year Against Pain in Women. The hypothetical was jointly presented by the Australian Pain Society, the Arthritis Foundation of Australia (WA), and the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 and was directed at all women who suffer pain, as well as their families, carers and friends.
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SOURCE Connie Clarke - Freelance Journalist
for Arthritis Today magazine
(Arthritis WA)
DATE 30th April 2008
LINK Full Report

Report: ANZSHM/BJD Arthritis Workshop - Building the Evidence for Health Practice

The Arthritis Workshop was held as part of Medicine in Context: the 10th Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM), Canberra 3-6 July 2007. It was presented in conjunction with the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 (BJD). The workshop looked at changes in the management of arthritis, sharing the perspectives of different groups, including historians, health professionals, patients and others. The report includes abstracts, speaker's notes for their presentations, concluding comments, and background information on arthritis.
SOURCE Prue Deacon - HealthInsite Editorial Team
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
DATE 5th July 2007
LINK Full Report

Report: Celebration of World Arthritis Day - Public Research Symposium

To Celebrate World Arthritis Day on the 12th October 2006, the BJD and Arthritis WA, in conjunction with the School of Physiotherapy at Curtin University, held a public research symposium. This symposium enabled the public to learn more about the research currently being undertaken by the school of Pysiotherapy at Curtin University in the area of musculoskeletal health.

SOURCE Dr John Quintner, Consultant Physician in Rheumatology and Pain Medicine
DATE 21st October 2006
LINK Full Report

BJD Australia's Community Service Radio Announcements

The Australian National Action Network (NAN) for the Bone and Joint Decade 2000 - 2010 has developed 3 Community Service Announcements (CSA's) for use on radio. Using humour as a basis, these CSA's have been designed for use by all radio stations but especially those that cater to a younger demographic. Listen out for them on your favourite station soon.
SOURCE Bone and Joint Decade - Australia
DATE 11th September 2006
LINK CSA 1
CSA 2
CSA 3

Arthritis Australia's Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) Resources

Arthritis Australia has recently produced a number of resources for parents and teachers of young people with JIA. These include a Teachers Guide, School Advisory Form, general information on JIA and more specific information on JIA and schooling. All of these resources are available as pdf files which can be downloaded from the Arthritis Australia website.
SOURCE Arthritis Australia
DATE 28th July 2006
LINK click here

Video - "Bone and Joint Decade 2000 - 2010: Australian Promotion"

This short video contains information on the Bone and Joint Decade 2000 - 2010 and its aims. It also provides information on common musculoskeletal conditions their causes. Personal insights and stories by people living with or treating musculoskeletal conditions gives this video greater impact.

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SOURCE Bone and Joint Decade - Australia
DATE 2005
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Article - "Bone of Contention"

Most of us have had niggling pain in a joint, a wrist when we type, a knee when we run. So when Natalie Fuller started getting pain in her right arm, she attributed it to her busy life. But the pain got worse. And worse and worse. After a battery of tests, 18 months ago she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
Fuller is 26 and when the pain started, she never considered arthritis could be the cause. “I never really associated arthritis with young people like me,” she says. She is not alone; it is a popular misconception that arthritis is an old person’s disease. In fact, the Arthritis Foundation of Australia figures show that in 2004 of the 3.4 million Australians with arthritis, most of them were of working age and around 60 per cent of them women, while chronic arthritis affects four children in 1,000. If current trends continue, one in five Australians will be living with arthritis by 2020.
SOURCE Vogue Magazine Australia
DATE March 2006
LOCATION pages 132-134
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