Arthritis At Home (+ On the Go)

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Karine Toupin April, Associate Professor at the School of Rehabilitation Sciences in the University of Ottawa. She speaks to Kelly Lendvoy about how the practice of shared decision making can be implemented effectively in arthritis care, taking into account the diverse needs of specific patient populations, an...

In this Arthritis At Home, Kelly Lendvoy, ACE’s VP of Communications & Public Affairs, speaks to ACE’s programs coordinator, Ellen Wang, about ACE’s poster she is presenting for Arthritis Consumer Experts at EULAR European Congress of Rheumatology 2024. Ellen will be presenting findings on the ACE National Survey on Arthritis Health Literacy in Canada – that provide a starting point from which...

Approximately 60% of Canadians have private health insurance plans. However, not all Canadians have equal access to private health insurance plans and some face serious challenges getting their private health insurance plan to pay for arthritis medications and other essential elements of their arthritis care. In this Arthritis at Home, Ellen Wang, ACE programs coordinator, speaks to ACE’s VP of Co...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, Cheryl Koehn, president of Arthritis Consumer Experts (ACE), speaks to arthritis blogger and person with rheumatoid arthritis, Ms. Carrie Barnes. Their conversation focusses on Carrie’s blog journey as she celebrates the one-year anniversary of her “Joint Journeys” blog hosted by ACE. Carrie shares the important connections she has made in the past year and wh...

In this Arthritis At Home, Cheryl Koehn, president of Arthritis Consumer Experts, speaks to physiotherapy-health literacy PhD student, Ms. Ellen Wang. Their conversation focusses on the importance of exercise for people living with arthritis and what types of exercise are most beneficial. The discuss about ACE’s newly launched course JointHealth™ Education: Arthritis and Exercise and how the cours...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, Cheryl Koehn, ACE’s Founder and President, speaks to Kelly Lendvoy, about the highlights from the May 2024 issue of JointHealth™ insight that focuses on the challenges people with arthritis face when trying to get their arthritis medications paid for by their public or private drug plan. Additional learning resources JointHealth™ insight – Medication reimburse...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Derin Karacabeyli, rheumatology resident at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Karacabeyli is studying the effects of treating metabolic comorbidities like obesity and type 2 diabetes on patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases. In this interview, he shares the work he is conducting to look at...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, Cheryl Koehn, president of Arthritis Consumer Experts, speaks to arthritis blogger and person with rheumatoid arthritis, Ms. Carrie Barnes. Their conversation focusses on the importance of medication treatment decision-making from the person with rheumatoid arthritis’ (RA) viewpoint. They cover the challenges people newly diagnosed with RA face when making dec...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert, Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta, on the role of the rheumatologists in the diagnosis of long-COVID as well as the management of this syndrome. Long-COVID patients, like people living with arthritis, develop widespread pain, pain in a particular joint, and fatigue....

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Lihi Eder, Co-Director of the Cardio-Rheumatology Program at Women’s College Hospital, and Research Director, Division of Rheumatology at University of Toronto. Dr. Eder discusses how psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are connected. She shares with the audience the PRESTO tool, a new prediction tool for psoria...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Ms. Kara Irwin, research trainee at Arthritis Research Canada working under the supervision of Dr. Cheryl Barnabe. Kara looks at how higher rates and frequencies of emergency visits and hospitalizations for patients with inflammatory arthritis and gout have negative impacts for both patient health outcomes and hea...

In this Arthritis At Home, Dr. Maziar Badii, a rheumatologist in Artus Health Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, shares details about a procedure called geniculate artery embolization (or “GAE”) for knee osteoarthritis. Learn who the ideal candidate for this procedure is, how the procedure works, and what the research says about the efficacy and safety of the procedure. Additional learning res...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Sasha Bernatsky, rheumatologist at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).  She discusses the crucial role antimalarials such as hydroxychloroquine play in the management of inflammatory arthritis, like rheumatoid arthritis, offering a favourable balance between efficacy and safety. The benefits of these m...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Jasmin Ma, Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia. She defines what strength training is and explains the benefits of it for people living with rheumatoid arthritis. She shares what is important to consider before coming up with an exercise plan, some...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Jillian Horton, award-winning medical educator, writer, and keynote speaker at this year’s CRA & AHPA Scientific Meeting. She shares highlights from her lecture on critical frameworks for tackling our burnout crisis. She also shares what she’s witnessed as a doctor and the necessity for compassion for both...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, Cheryl Koehn, Founder and President, speaks to ACE’s VP Communications & Public Affairs, Kelly Lendvoy, about the highlights from the February 2024 issue of the JointHealth™ insight newsletter, including: the newly published State of Arthritis in Canada Report Card feature article on arthritis models of care gaps and solutions across northern communities i...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, Cheryl Koehn and Dr. Marie Westby discuss about the EQUIP-TJR study they are working on. The study is studying patient experiences and the quality of care during their rehabilitation (rehab) after total joint replacement (TJR).  Dr. Westby’s team is now creating an online toolkit of resources called the EQUIP-TJR toolkit. It includes a variety of print and ele...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Timothy Kwok, resident rheumatologist at the University of Toronto, about gout. Gout is a form of arthritis which is caused by a build-up of a crystal called uric acid in the body. Normally, uric acid is processed by the kidneys and eliminated from the body through urine. In the case of gout, the kidneys do no...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Maggie Larché, Professor, Divisions of Rheumatology and Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, and Director, Canadian Scleroderma Research Group. She discusses about scleroderma, its symptoms and connection with Raynaud’s phenomenon. Additional learning resources Sclerode...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Drs. Lisa Lix and Lily Lim, about artificial intelligence (AI) in practice and the pattern mining of healthcare data for complex chronic conditions. Dr. Lix is professor and associate head of community health sciences at the University of Manitoba and currently serves on the board of directors of the Canadian Stat...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Mollie Carruthers, academic rheumatologist practicing at Artus Health Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, about IgG4-related disease. IgG4-related disease describes a group of fibroinflammatory diseases that affect a variety of tissues resulting in tumor-like effect and/or organ dysfunction. Additional lear...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Michelle Batthish, Associate Professor, Pediatric Rheumatology, at McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences. Dr. Batthish discusses about transitioning from pediatric to adult arthritis care and shares transitioning tips for patients and their family members. Additional learning resources MyTransition...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, we are sharing the #CRArthritis interview with Dr. Sasha Bernatsky, rheumatologist, a James McGill professor, and a senior scientist in the Centre for Health Outcomes Research and Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the Research Institute of the MUHC. Dr. Bernatsky discusses about air pollution and its relationship with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases...

Winter Solstice is a special time in Indigenous cultures, symbolizing the turning of seasons and a period for recharging our spirits, connecting with our communities, and fostering change both within and around us. In this special holiday episode of Arthritis at Home, Kelly Lendvoy and Cheryl Koehn discuss how this meaning of Winter Solstice inspired ACE’s holiday message this year as they reflect...

In this episode of Arthritis At Home, Ms. Ellen Wang, ACE’s programs coordinator, speaks with Dr. Codie Primeau, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Arthritis Research Canada and the University of British Columbia.  Throughout their discussion, Codie describes how he and his team plan to use Citizen Science as an approach to engaging with individuals who are sexually and gender diverse and work collaborative...