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Posted May 2019
Helpful Hints is a recurring feature, aimed at sharing our community’s knowledge and experiences. Living with spondyloarthritis can be difficult and challenging at times, however, throughout the process we can learn a lot about ourselves, our surroundings, and life in general. In this installment, we asked our online community, “If you have learned anything special about life or human nature as a result of spondyloarthritis, what is it?”
Posted March 2018
Posted April 2019
There are many ways to assess the severity of spondyloarthritis. But arguably the most important information is how you as the patient perceive the illness. How does it affect your day-to-day life such as your work, your relationship to your family, your major life decisions? A director wants to make a movie that will please audiences; a physician wants to make a recommendation, or prescribe medication that will make a difference to a patient and their lifestyle. Finding out what is meaningful to our patients is the first step towards that goal.
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