Abstracts tagged "Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and self-management"

Abstract Number: 2591 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Effects of Self-Management Model on the Disease-Related Knowledge, Joint Function and Quality of Life in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis
Pingping Zhang¹, Jun Qi², Zhiming Lin³, Minjing Zhao² and Jieruo Gu⁴, ¹Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, ²The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, guangzhou, China, ³The Affiliated Third Hospital of Sun Yat-san University, Rheumatology, Guangzhou, China, ⁴Rheumatology, The Affiliated Third Hospital of Sun Yat-san University, Rheumatology, Guangzhou, China
Background/Purpose: Ankylosing spondylitis is a kind of chronic inflammatory diseases, inflammation of the sacroiliac joint and spine attachment points are the main symptoms , as a kind…