Abstracts tagged "physical function and physical impairment"

Abstract Number: 1086 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
The Effect of Foot Pain on Mobility Disability in Older Adults: The Framingham Foot Study
Alyssa B. Dufour¹, Patricia P. Katz², Yvonne M. Golightly³, Arunima Awale⁴ and Marian T. Hannan⁵, ¹Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ³Gillings School of Global Public Health, Dept of Epidemiology, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina Dept of Epidemiology, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Boston, MA, ⁵Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, Dept. of Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: While lower extremity function is thought to affect mobility, little is known of the influence of foot structure or function upon mobility limitations.…
Abstract Number: 573 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Three-Year Course and Prediction of Physical Functioning in Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients Treated with TNF-Inhibitors
Salima F.E. van Weely¹, Eva L. Kneepkens¹, Mike T. Nurmohamed¹, Joost Dekker^1,2 and Irene E. van der Horst-Bruinsma³, ¹Reade, centre for Rehabilitation and Rheumatology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Rehabilitation Medicine, Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Currently, only limited information is available on the long-term course of limitations in physical functioning and spinal mobility in Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) patients receiving…