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GPA Patient Carries NORD Banner to Top of Mt. Everest

Carol Patton  |  December 16, 2015

On May 23, 2010, Cindy Abbott was standing on top of the world. She had spent the past 51 days climbing Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, and had finally reached the summit. “I was very anxious to get off and get back down,” she says, adding that the summit is about the…

Filed under:ConditionsOther Rheumatic ConditionsProfessional TopicsProfiles Tagged with:GPAgranulomatosis with polyangiitisNational Organization of Rare DisordersNORDProfile

Exercise Helps Manage Hip Osteoarthritis Pain

Kathryn Doyle  |  December 12, 2015

(Reuters Health)—Water- or land-based exercise should provide some short-term benefit in pain management for hip osteoarthritis, though there are few well-designed trials testing it, according to a new review. “It is nice to finally have some hip-specific data, as hip and knee osteoarthritis are often grouped together, and it’s almost certain that there are differences…

Filed under:ConditionsOsteoarthritis and Bone Disorders Tagged with:Exercisehiphip painosteoarthritis (OA)Pain

Rheumatology Research Foundation Scholarships Help Students Attend ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

Thomas R. Collins  |  November 17, 2015

Seven students pursuing rheumatology-related careers will head to San Francisco in November on a Student and Resident ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting Scholarship—awards that are open to students and residents from states that are underserved by rheumatology professionals. The Rheumatology Research Foundation has awarded the students $750–1,500 toward travel expenses and registration for the ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting,…

Filed under:Career DevelopmentEducation & TrainingProfessional TopicsResearch Rheum Tagged with:ACR/ARHP Annual MeetingAmerican College of Rheumatology (ACR)medical studentsresidentsRheumatology Research FoundationSan FranciscoScholarship

Past President Marlin Shields Reflects on the ARHP’s 50-Year History

From the College  |  November 17, 2015

As the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP) continues to celebrate its 50th anniversary, The Rheumatologist recently spent time with Charter Member and Past President Marlin N. Shields, RPT, discussing the history of the ARHP and the changes he has seen in rheumatology. One topic that was, and remains, near and dear to him is…

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Health Video Games Spark Interest, Try to Gain Traction

Thomas R. Collins  |  November 16, 2015

In the late 1990s, Thomas Baranowski, PhD, professor of pediatrics specializing in nutrition at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, applied for a grant. For years, he had been interested in finding ways to get children to change their diet and physical activity. He decided to try a video game, and he got the money…

Filed under:AppsTechnologyTechnology Tagged with:appsExercisehealthmobileOutcomespatient carephysical fitnessTechnology

Rheumatologist Steven S. Overman Reflects on His Last Day of Practice, Future of Specialty

Steven S. Overman, MD, MPH • illustrations by Alice C. Gray  |  November 16, 2015

I am a few weeks post-retirement. Having written thank you notes and completed urgent home projects, I swing in a hammock at our currently fire-threatened cabin north of Winthrop, Wash., and reflect. I feel like a young boy while freely flipping pages of a hand-scribed picture book, The Principles of Uncertainty, by Maira Kalman. She…

Filed under:Practice SupportProfiles Tagged with:Profileretirementrheumatologistrheumatology practice

Fellows’ Forum Case Report: Palmar Fasciitis & Polyarthritis Syndrome

Naveen Raj, DO, MPH, Marc Kesselman, DO, & Barry Waters, MD  |  November 16, 2015

Case report: A 78-year-old Caucasian female presented to our outpatient rheumatology clinic with pain in her bilateral shoulders, hands and knees that began suddenly one month earlier. She admitted to stiffness in her hands lasting several hours, and expressed an inability to extend her fingers. She denied fever, rashes, jaw claudication, headache or visual changes….

Filed under:ConditionsOther Rheumatic ConditionsSoft Tissue Pain Tagged with:ClinicalDiagnosisFellowsFellows Forumhandpalmar fasciitispatient carepolyarthritisrheumatologistsymptom

Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: A Valuable Tool for Diagnosing Rheumatic Illnesses

Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: A Valuable Tool for Diagnosing Rheumatic Illnesses

Khushboo Sheth, MBBS, & Christopher Scola, MD  |  October 15, 2015

Musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound is a valuable imaging modality for the practicing rheumatologist and provides an efficient tool with high diagnostic value in the evaluation of patients with musculoskeletal complaints. The use of MSK ultrasound has evolved in the U.S. due to the emergence of less-expensive, portable ultrasound units, which provide high-quality gray-scale and power Doppler…

Filed under:ConditionsRheumatoid Arthritis Tagged with:ClinicalDiagnosisMSKMusculoskeletal Ultrasoundpatient careRARheumatoid arthritisrheumatologistsrheumatologyTrainingUltrasound

Rheumatologists Share Research, Successes at Annual Investigators’ Meeting

From the College  |  October 14, 2015

“Each project adds new knowledge that brings us a little closer to the cure,” Joan Bathon, MD, of Columbia University Medical Center, says of the Rheumatology Research Foundation’s 8th Annual Investigators’ Meeting in San Diego. Dr. Bathon was one of more than 30 investigators who presented the latest progress on research funded by the Foundation’s…

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Case Report: Interstitial Lung Disease with Positive ANCA Test

Sara Tedeschi, MD  |  October 13, 2015

“Worst of all is the pain in my calves,” she said. “It feels like burning deep inside.” So began my first encounter with a 69-year-old woman who was referred to rheumatology clinic for evaluation of two months of constitutional symptoms and a positive ANCA test, which had been ordered by her primary care doctor. Her…

Filed under:Conditions Tagged with:ANCA patient careClinicalDiagnosisILDInterstitial Lung Diseaseoutcome

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