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American Arthritis Foundation
The American Arthritis Foundation is the largest as well as the
most viable non-profit organization that deals with arthritis,
and who fund arthritis research as well as provide educational
information to patients. It is the prototype for future
relationships that may come to exist between non-profit
organizations and corporate America. Current trends are leading
toward organizations developing strategic partnerships with
companies instead of entering into short-term
relationships.
Let’s Talk RA Program And More
The American Arthritis Foundation has developed the Let’s Talk
RA program with the support of Bristol-Meyers Squibb to help
teach patients to become active participants in managing
rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A first step in this direction
requires ordering a free Let’s Talk RA Communication Kit, which
includes a Communication Guide, a Health Assessment
Questionnaire, a Participant Survey as well as additional
helpful information from the American Arthritis Foundation and
Bristol-Meyers Squibb.
It is important for those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis
to have a voice in their treatment plan as well as disease
management. Taking the trouble of ordering the Let’s Talk RA
Communication Kit is the first step and a positive choice in
taking control over the disease, and the American Arthritis
Foundation encourages active participation in this
regard.
Living with the pain of osteoarthritis might be considered as
needing to spend of one’s lifetime sitting on the sidelines,
and not being able to participate in games. However, people
like John Elway, former Denver Bronco player and spokesperson
for Game Plan for OA, an American Arthritis Foundation program,
show that employing strategies such as those employed by Elway
will help control OA as well as help patients achieve their
goals.
The American Arthritis Foundation also uses sources such as
clinical experts; scientists form many different research
disciplines as well as organizations having an interest in
arthritis and related diseases to compile annual lists of all
the highlights in arthritis on a yearly basis. Also,
researchers enjoying the support of the American Arthritis
Foundation have discovered new pathways that regulate joint
destruction associated with inflammatory arthritis.
The American Arthritis Foundation also has all the facts
pertaining to arthritis, and one can learn from them that
between 1985 to 2006 the number of arthritis patients shot up
from 35 million to 46 million and that arthritis is a leading
chronic health problem that is causing Americans over the age
of 15 much disability, being second only to heart disease as a
cause of disability at work.
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