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RA & OA: Nearly 40% have Anxiety, Depression or Fibromyalgia

Jack Cush, MD

Researchers at Rush University analyzed clinic MDHAQ data and found between 36-40% of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis patients screen positive comorbid anxiety, depression, or fibromyalgia.

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Best Rheumatologists (7.19.2024)

Jack Cush, MD

This week on the RheumNow Podcast, Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal reports of interesting, including irAE, pollution and Psoriasis, microwave therapy, scleroderma without scleroderma that only the best rheumatologists could discern.

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Geography of Arthritis-attributable Pain in the USA

Jack Cush, MD

The journal Pain has shown geographic differences in arthritis-attributable pain, arthritis-related outcomes mostly clustered in the Deep South and Appalachia, while severe arthritis pain is more prevalent in the Southwest, Pacific Northwest, Georgia, Florida, and Maine.  

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Pollution and Autoimmunity (7.12.2024)

Jack Cush, MD

Dr. Jack Cush reviews the news and journal articles from the past week on RheumNow.com.

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ICYMI: Dead Words Eulogy

Jack Cush, MD

The trouble with rheumatology may be the words we live by. Welcome to the eulogy for rheumatology 'dead words'. We're here today to celebrate the loss of rheumatology past. These are dead words in rheumatology, words fortified unfortunately by history and habit. The lexicon of rheumatology is unique, it's challenging and it's mostly incomprehensible to those who don't know...but those are the cornerstones of the greatest of medical subspecialties. 

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ICYMI: 2023 EULAR Non-pharmacological Management of Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis: 2023 update

Jack Cush, MD

EULAR has published the 2023 updated recommendations for the optimal non-pharmacological management of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA).

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Low Back Pain? Take a Walk!

Jack Cush, MD

A randomised controlled trial of adults with recurrent low back pain (LBP) has shown that a program of progressive walking and education intervention significantly reduced low back pain recurrence.

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Pain in RA: Different Drugs for Different Mechanisms https://t.co/pOETFkTIkS https://t.co/Vn5zgrYsKR

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192 RA pts on MTX: GI Sxs studied w/ MISS (MTX intolerance severity score). GI intolerance seen in 56%, Nausea & pain post-MTX most common. More in afro-descendants, w/ FM, Steroids, or JAKi. MISS results unrelated to Route, Gi Dz, age, MTX dose https://t.co/EROmZQo1Zs https://t.co/SOMzzXXj0b

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In the US CorEvitas registry of 1823 PsA pts; 11.1% fulfilled fibromyalgia definition & 20.6% had widespread pain. FM was assoc w/ female, depression/anxiety, impaired function, increased BMI, comorbidities. cDAPSA, patient pain& TJC https://t.co/YwRBYo1aR6 https://t.co/TXraU0F3Mh

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Low Back Pain? Take a Walk! A randomised controlled trial of adults with recurrent low back pain (LBP) has shown that a program of progressive walking and education intervention significantly reduced low back pain recurrence. https://t.co/FTm69VviD1 https://t.co/q53EIxAc1J

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ComOA- a cohort study from 3.4 million, 4 countries looked at OA (n=845K) & comorbidities. Tops were LBP (44%), HTN, (34%), allergy (21%), cataract (16%), vertigo (14%), depression (13%), DM (13%). After OA Dx: Fm, RA, PMR OP0230 #EULAR2024 https://t.co/GMVCHSfyt0 https://t.co/KFlacpHfAX

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Zoe @ZoeClarkOsteo from @NASSexercise @NASSchiefexec presenting her work from the Your SpAce self-management programme which covers topics on pain, fatigue, flares and much more #EULAR2024 @RheumNow https://t.co/q81JDHu7Oj

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@RheumNow The always erudite @LCalabreseDO is no slouch of a debating opponent, however. He acknowledges that the science has been imperfect, too much is wrapped up in it, and that fibromyalgia can teach a lot to long COVID. #EULAR2024 @RheumNow https://t.co/TzR4SMZh9f

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@RheumNow @LCalabreseDO @NIH and Len gives us some key recommendations for better practice for long COVID - for me, equally as applicable to fibromyalgia as to long COVID. Fantastic discussion #EULAR2024 @RheumNow https://t.co/8PnjPEKcOu

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Fantastic long COVID debate: close friends Xavier Mariette & @LCalabreseDO head-to-head, debating whether long COVID is a specific disease or part of fibromyalgia. Xavier argues it looks like any post-viral syndrome, & the immunological signal isn’t there. #EULAR2024 @RheumNow https://t.co/ajKjBSRo2n

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What is the origin of pain in difficult to manage axSpA? 1- Inflammation 2- Degenerative 3- Central Nervous System #EULAR2024 NZ https://t.co/KzATnYN4HG

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« difficult to treat PsA » how mich combination obesity, non-inflammatory MSK pain, fibromyalgia and depression making assessment tricky and risk of rattling through therapies fast! @rheumnow #EULAR2024

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Australian studyshows knee OA pts unconsciously believe that activity may be dangerous to their condition, despite medical advice telling them otherwise. 69% of people with knee pain had stronger implicit (unconscious) beliefs that exercise was dangerous https://t.co/iytfpcGvD8 https://t.co/N183ffYfPP

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Danish Registry study of 1.9 million chronic pain pts, shows chronic use of medicinal cannabis (5391) is assoc w/ a significant risk of new-onset arrhythmia {180d RR 2.07; 1-year RR 1.36). No significant association for acute coronary syndrome https://t.co/VT3X8lVWaD https://t.co/BMqVapFkuU

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