Arthritis affects more than 3.9 million adults and children in Australia.
The chronic pain experienced by people with arthritis has a huge impact on their everyday lives. The need for intervention to relieve people of this chronic and debilitating pain is a constant focus for researchers.
Arthritis Support
Bringing VR technology into physiotherapy clinics across Australia through ready-to-use, clinician/patient-friendly devices to improve osteoarthritis pain.
Developing a system for ‘living evidence’ in musculoskeletal health, so that new information about treatments for arthritis and other musculoskeletal diseases is easy for doctors to access as soon as it becomes available.
Helping the Rheumatology Unit at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital find new treatments for painful knee and hand osteoarthritis through trial of new drugs.
Establishing a musculoskeletal biobank and rheumatology database to better understand risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and vasculitis.
Investigating whether leaky gut syndrome affects the immune response in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Trialling the use of rocker sole footwear in treating painful midfoot osteoarthritis.