Ankylosing Spondylitis: Other Places To Get Help
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Other Places To Get Help
Organizations
| Arthritis Foundation | |
| 1330 West Peachtree Street | |
| Suite 100 | |
| Atlanta, GA 30309 | |
| Phone: | 1-800-283-7800 |
| Web Address: | www.arthritis.org |
The Arthritis Foundation provides grants to help find a cure, prevention methods, and better treatment options for arthritis. It also provides a large number of community-based services nationwide to make living with arthritis easier, including self-help courses; water- and land-based exercise classes; support groups; home study groups; instructional videotapes; public forums; free educational brochures and booklets; the national, bimonthly consumer magazine Arthritis Today; and continuing education courses and publications for health professionals. | |
| National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health | |
| 1 AMS Circle | |
| Bethesda, MD 20892-3675 | |
| Phone: | 1-877-22-NIAMS (1-877-226-4267) toll-free (301) 495-4484 |
| Fax: | (301) 718-6366 |
| TDD: | (301) 565-2966 |
| E-mail: | niamsinfo@mail.nih.gov |
| Web Address: | www.niams.nih.gov |
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) is a governmental institute that serves the public and health professionals by providing information, locating other information sources, and participating in a national federal database of health information. NIAMS supports research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases and supports the training of scientists to carry out this research. The NIAMS Web site provides health information referrals to the NIAMS Clearinghouse, which has information packages about diseases. | |
| Spondylitis Association of America | |
| P.O. Box 5872 | |
| Sherman Oaks, CA 91413 | |
| Phone: | 1-800-777-8189 (818) 981-1616 |
| E-mail: | info@spondylitis.org |
| Web Address: | www.spondylitis.org |
The Spondylitis Association of America (SAA), a national nonprofit organization, is dedicated to the cure of ankylosing spondylitis and related diseases through education, advocacy, awareness, and research. | |
| Last updated: | May 18, 2007 |
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| Author: | Shannon Erstad, MBA/MPH |
| Reviewed By: | E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine, Stanford M. Shoor, MD - Rheumatology |
| Editors: | Kathleen M. Ariss, MS, Pat Truman, MATC |
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