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Hip and knee OA: Survey participants wanted
How do you decide which treatment for hip or knee osteoarthritis is best for you or your patients? What factors are most important to you? (e.g. accessibility, benefits, cost, effectiveness, harms) Researchers at Otago University want your opinion about different...
Volunteers wanted for gout app study
Gout study: We want to find out which mobile phone apps for gout are the most engaging, effective and fun for patients to use.
Genes to blame for gout, not food
Advances in genetic research into gout underline Arthritis New Zealand’s message to people living with this extremely painful disease. Gout causes excruciating pain and swelling in the joints of the hands and feet, usually the big toes. It’s the result of high levels...
Active lifestyle and knee osteoarthritis health study
Be part of an important Physical Activity and Knee OA Study We are seeking volunteers to participate in a study to quantify and describe physical activity and sedentary behaviour levels in adults with knee OA. We want to create a mathematical model to predict the...
Mobility Action Programme (MAP) and the Managing Osteoarthritis (MOA) programme
In 2015, the Government allocated $6 million for the provision of early intervention programmes of care for people with musculoskeletal (MSK) health conditions, mainly osteoarthritis.