From October 8th to 13th, the MSK 2023 Global Musculoskeletal Societies Joint Meeting took place in London under the auspices of the International Skeletal Society (ISS). The MSK Refresher Course was an anchor of the program as usual. As a part of it, on October 12th, an interactive course on axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) took the […]
On March 24, 2023, the German Society for Musculoskeletal Radiology (DGMSR) hosted the first Rheuma-Day in Berlin. The hands-on workshop, especially for radiologists, focussed on rheumatic diseases with primarily peripheral manifestations (rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, gout and other crystal arthropathies such as CPPD or HADD) and with axial manifestations (spondyloarthritides, excess strain on the spine […]
Joachim Sieper is a Professor of Rheumatology at the Benjamin Franklin Campus of the Charité Berlin. In an interview with online editor Eva Reidemeister, he reveals why the term “Bechterew’s disease” is outdated and why we speak of axial spondyloarthritis today.