Presentation by Gillian Park, Versus Arthritis, Escape pain and the burden of Osteoarthritis at the Escape pain celebration event Thursday 14th November at Haydock Park Racecourse.
3. Versus Arthritis
Who we are
We are the 10 million people living with arthritis.
We’re the carers, researchers, healthcare
professionals, friends, parents and runners and
fundraisers all united in our ambition that one day,
no one will have to live with the pain and fatigue
and isolation that arthritis causes.
Versus Arthritis
was formed in
2018 after a
merger of the two
largest arthritis
charities – Arthritis
Research and
Arthritis Care
4. Versus Arthritis
What we do
Alonsgide volunteers, healthcare professionals,
researchers and friends, we do everything we can
to push back against arthritis.
Together, we’ll continue to develop breakthrough
treatments, campaign relentlessly for arthritis to
be seen as a priority, and support each other
whenever we need it.
Arthritis is often
dismissed as an
inevitable part of
ageing or shrugged
off as ‘just a bit of
arthritis’ We don’t
think that’s OK.
We’re here to
change that.
5. Versus Arthritis
Charity Ambitions
Versus Arthritis wants to ensure…
No one is living with musculoskeletal (MSK) pain
without access to information and support to self-
manage
Versus Arthritis exists to support people living in
the UK with an MSK condition.
18.8 million people
living with MSK
conditions in UK
Estimated 6.98
million with OA
knee / hip
People may
experience pain
and fatigue, ability
to move freely, to
stay in work, or
lose their
independence
7. ABOUT
Escape pain
• ‘Enabling Self management and Coping
with Arthritis Pain through Exercise’
• Six week, 12 session rehabilitation programme
of group education and exercise
• Over 45’s with persistent knee or hip
osteoarthritis
• Aim is to support and educate people
better to manage their arthritis and use
exercise as a safe and effective self
management strategy
8. escape pain and versus
arthritis
ESCAPE-pain supported by
Health Innovation Network (HIN)
since 2014
• Originally developed by Professor
Mike Hurley funding from Arthritis
Research (now Versus Arthritis)
• 2016 Report ‘Providing
physical activity
interventions for people with
musculoskeletal conditions’
2017 – Implemented in over 30
sites mainly SE England
• Three year partnership agreed
with HIN and VA with a scale up
vision to reach 50,000 people by
2023
• 2018 – Academic Health Science
networks (AHSN) adopted ESCAPE-pain
as national programme. Sport England
funded ESCAPE-pain with Versus
Arthritis’ support in 2017 in leisure sector
10. Osteoarthritis
the facts
• Rapidly growing in prevalence
8.75 million over age 45
• Combined effect of ageing
population and rising levels of
obesity
• 2017 total burden of ill
health in the UK is
estimated 22% attributed to
MSK conditions
• Lost working days cost 28.2
million for MSK
11. Osteoarthritis
the need
VA wants to support the uptake of
interventions that are;
• Scalable and sustainable
• cost effective
• help patients self-manage their
condition
• have long term impact
• can be delivered in the community
(helping reduce the burden in the
health service)
• accessible for people with arthritis
One of our six charity ambitions is to ensure that no one is living with musculoskeletal pain without access to information and support to self manage.
Lets have a brief look next at how MSK conditions affect people in the UK
The following information is taken directly from a developmental report commissioned by Versus Arthritis during April 2018-2019 called ‘ESCAPE-pain The Story of Scale up. Scaling up a rehabilitation programme for people with chronic knee or/and hip pain.
ESCAPE-pain was originally developed by professor Mike Hurley (a professor and physiotherapist at King’s College, London) with funding from Arthritis Research (now VA) He developed a programme to challenge patients beliefs that Osteoarthritis and pain is an inevitable part of ageing.
A series of evaluations showed the programme to be safe, showed substantial improvements in patients levels of pain and improve their confidence to be able to manage their symptoms.
Proven benefits to people with arthritis but also to the healthcare system – return of investment of £5.20 for every £1 spent.
The following information and statistics are taken from the Report The State of Musculoskeletal Health 2019 produced by Versus Arthritis
Over 8.75 million people over age 45 and between 64 have sought treatment for Osteoarthritis
This rises to almost half of people aged 75 and over
Indirect costs of disability – A third of people with Osteoarthritis give up work, retire early or reduce their hours.
Prevalence is usually higher in women than men – women accounted for 60% of knee and hip replacements in England, Wales and NI in 2017, over 90% are due
To Osteoarthritis
18.2% of people aged over 45 in England have Osteoarthritis of the knee, that’s 4.11 million people, 1.4 million that have severe knee Osteoarthritis
10.9% of people aged over 45 in England have Osteoarthritis of the hip – that’s 2.46 million. 726,000 have severe Hip Osteoarthritis
All patients should be offered
Written and verbal information about OA to counter misconceptions. Should be ongoing.
Advice on exercise and physical activity (local muscle strengthening. Stretching and general aerobic fitness. Individual plans.
Weight loss interventions if appropriate