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Make Rehab Fun: Virtual Reality & Therapeutic Gaming

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Using virtual reality in rehabilitation can have benefits—as long as it is properly understood. In fact, some evidence suggests benefits from the judicious use of immersive virtual reality with patients with rheumatic diagnoses. People tend to have a lower perception of effort compared with actual exertion and lower reports of pain with longer time to exhaustion.

New Consensus Recommendations Guide Sjögren’s Syndrome Management

Will Boggs, MD  |  

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—New consensus-based recommendations from the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) address the management of Sjögren’s syndrome with topical and systemic therapies. Sjögren’s syndrome presents with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and autoantibodies, including antinuclear antibodies (the most frequently detected), anti-Ro/SS-A (the most specific) and cryoglobulins and hypocomplementemia (the main prognostic markers)….

Rep. Schofield and Dr. Worthing listen to an audience member's question.

1 Person Can Make a Difference: The Importance of Advocacy

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Your voice matters: That was the shared theme of presentations by Angus Worthing, MD, FACR, FACP, William F. Harvey, MD, MSc, FACR, and Georgia Rep. Kim Schofield (D-Atlanta, Dist. 60) in the session, Raise Your Voice! Advocacy Update from Government Affairs at the 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting on Monday, Nov. 11.

Using RISE Data in Research

Elizabeth Hofheinz, MPH, MEd  |  

The ACR’s RISE registry offers answers on real-world experience to researchers.