In their own words: The frustration, stigma and emotion of walking with MS

A major Murdoch University review has found that for many people with multiple sclerosis (MS), walking is hindered not only ...

NDIS tool to determine support not tested on variety of disability types – including diverse autism, experts warn

Exclusive: Experts also alarmed ICAN tool – a three-hour interview – may be conducted by people with no allied health background ...
Nature

There's more to life than everyday function: the challenge of measuring social role participation in ankylosing spondylitis

Symptoms and functional limitations are commonly reported primary outcome measures in ankylosing spondylitis (AS); however, participation has not been widely evaluated, as reflected by the scarcity of ...
BMJ Global Health

Association of disability and 12-year all-cause and cause-specific mortality: analyses from the Wellbeing of Older People cohort study in Uganda

Introduction Disability is linked to poor health outcomes and increased mortality, yet evidence on this relationship in sub-Saharan Africa is limited. This study investigated the association between ...
BMJ

ICON 2019—International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium Consensus: There are nine core health-related domains for tendinopathy (CORE DOMAINS): Delphi study of healthcare ...

Background The absence of any agreed-upon tendon health-related domains hampers advances in clinical tendinopathy research. This void means that researchers report a very wide range of outcome ...