🏠 Take Home Messages from the early #axSpA session
🔺 Earlier diagnosis is possible and better
🔺 Early axSpA is not synonymous to mild
🔺 Longitudinally, early axSpA is heterogeneous
🔺 MRI has transformed the field
❗️Beware of pitfalls
#EULAR2026@RheumNow
‘In future, can you not go on holiday and then decide we are launching 2 projects on the same day’
Jack March 2026
Physio Matters members check your emails…
… Where you will see why we couldn’t wait to give you a first look at these two new projects! 🗺️ 📲
Huge thanks to Laura Beaven, Robert Beaven, Charlotte Hayers, Matt Wedderburn and Felicity Thow for looking after Jim.
#APPSnMAPS
CAN WE MASTER DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND IN JUST 1 YEAR??
The Physio Matters Team are following 6 guinea pig clinicians and @JackAChew to find out if they can develop Diagnostic Ultrasound competency in just 1 year!
This is episode 2 where we ask the educators what the issues are with weekend courses and non-formalised training PLUS we check in with the clinicians/guinea pigs who are partaking in our experiment. We ask them how they have found learning the skill so far, the time commitment and whether they have found a mentor yet.
This is part 2 of 4 in this documentary, part 3 is planned for release around August 2026.
Further episodes will cover all aspects of Diagnostic Ultrasound so if you have questions fire them at us, lets build a conversation around the pros (and cons) of the explosion of accessibility!
If you want to explore Diagnostic Ultrasound Machines then discuss further with the documentary sponsor Physiquipe without whom we would not be making this projext happen! They will help you get the right tech!
Plus if you mention us when you get a machine, they will provide you with 3 YEARS of Physio Matters Premium Access!
For the avoidance of doubt:
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Sex difference in QoL related to nail psoriasis (QoL-NPso).
☑️QoL-NPso was significantly associated with lower physical, psychological and social QoL in women👩, but not men.
🚨Need for sex-gender-sensitive intervention in nail psoriasis.
journals.lww.com/jclinrheum/…
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Rapid onset L mid hamstring pain, which he felt was a "pull"
This settled, but then became more proximal and deep gluteal (not inferior / ischial) - continued to radiate "like a nerve pain" into the posterior thigh
Rehabbed as a muscle tear, then proximal hamstring tendinopathy (possibly starting as a partial tendon origin tear), but no response
Then developed similar R gluteal pain
Worse in the morning, reliant on NSAIDs, warmed up with exercise
US - did indeed show proximal hamstring tendinopathy on the L side with 'peel away' tear - confirmed on MRI (see T2 axial image) - but the R PHT was completely normal
MRI pelvis - bilateral sacroiliitis, much more florid on L side (see T2 / STIR coronal images)
Sacroillitis is a well recognised cause of gluteal pain and behave in a pseudo-sciatic fashion
Signed up, mucho ladies & gentlemen. @TPMPodcast@physiojack
Mainly to see my boy @BWhybrowPhysio fly but sure it will be interesting across the board. See you Tuesday 😎
RT @ericdeinMD#RNL26
GLP on Knee OA
STEP 9 Trial - 68 wk
Mean WOMAC improved by 41.7 pts, compared to 27.5 in PBO, improved SF-36
7% stopped due to side effects buff.ly/dwD9yvC
Semaglutide ameliorates osteoarthritis via wt loss-independent mechanism. GLP-1R agonist exhibits OA chondroprotective effects in a mouse model of obesity by changing chondrocyte metabolism from glycolysis to oxidative phosphorylation via the “GLP-1R-AMPK-PFKFB3” axis. cell.com/cell-metabolism/abs…