German osteoarthritis aid

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German osteoarthritis aid
legal form non-profit registered association
founding October 7, 1987
Seat Frankfurt am Main
Office Saarlouis
purpose Help for jointly ill people
Chair Helmut Huberti
sales 3,560,000 euros (2018)
Website www.arthrose.de

The German osteoarthritis aid is a non-profit association based in Frankfurt , which in osteoarthritis wants to help sick people in Germany. The organization, which it claims is financed exclusively by donations and membership fees, is one of the most important addresses for osteoarthritis sufferers in Germany by doctors and health insurance companies. According to the company, around 42,000 inquiries were answered in 2019.

The German Arthritis Aid was founded in 1987 by doctors and patients. The physician Helmut Huberti was a founding member and has been president of the organization since then.

activity

The association provides information on the subject of osteoarthritis, advises and supports osteoarthritis sufferers and promotes scientific and clinical research on osteoarthritis. He works with over 500 osteoarthritis specialists worldwide.

The medical service answers medical inquiries and provides information on the addresses of practicing osteoarthritis specialists. In special emergencies, the association also helps people suffering from osteoarthritis financially. Support from the Hardship Fund may be applied for reconstruction of housing or car about which become necessary as a result of failed therapeutic intervention (primarily in operative knee stiffening of irreparable complications as well as paraplegia after spinal surgery).

Publications

The German Arthrosis Aid publishes the Arthrosis Info advice booklet every quarter and an anthology of all previously published booklets annually. According to its own information, the association would like to make the scientifically proven knowledge about osteoarthritis accessible in a generally understandable form for those affected by osteoarthritis. Each issue is dedicated to a key topic; it contains information about diagnostics and therapies as well as options for prevention, early detection and self-help.

research

The association awards funds annually to support osteoarthritis research projects. In 2019, 14 individual projects in basic and applied clinical research at predominantly German university hospitals as well as eight congresses and advanced training events were financially supported. The projects funded in recent years included, for example, the Endoprosthesis Register Germany (EPRD) and the cartilage register of the German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery. The development of endoprostheses with integrated measurement electronics, which can be used to directly record load data on artificial joints in the body, has also been supported for many years by the German Arthritis Aid at the Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration at the Berlin Charité . Furthermore, the association sponsored a multi-year multi-center study carried out by the University Medical Center Greifswald on the optimal treatment of fractures of the fifth metacarpal with so-called Kirschner wires to prevent wrist osteoarthritis.

Together with the Society for Orthopedic Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS), the association awards the Heinrich Hess USA scholarship. The travel grant enables two young doctors each year to work in four weeks with leading American scientists in the field of sports orthopedics.

Since 2009, the medical faculty of Saarland University in Homburg has had a professorship sponsored by the German Arthritis Aid, Germany's first chair for experimental orthopedics and arthrosis research.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Petra N. Roßmüller-Meister, Gabriela Schwarz: Das Arthrose-Buch. Verlag Schlütersche, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89993-631-5 , p. 154 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
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  3. ↑ osteoarthritis. Information for patients and relatives. (PDF) Techniker Krankenkasse, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Osteoarthritis of the knee joint - further information. Barmer, accessed July 29, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Performance overview 2019. German Arthrosis Help, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Hardship Fund. Financial support in emergency situations. German Osteoarthritis Help, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b The osteoarthritis info. German Osteoarthritis Aid e. V., accessed on July 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Complete edition of the osteoarthritis information. 30 years of information work. German Osteoarthritis Aid e. V., accessed on July 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe e. V. (Ed.): Arthrosis Info. Two volumes. Complete Volume I 2019 (No. 1–60). Complete Volume II 2019 (No. 61–120). Official organ of the German Arthrosis Aid e. V. Verlag Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe, Frankfurt 2019.
  10. ↑ Current issue. German Osteoarthritis Aid e. V., accessed on June 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Anika Lautz: New guide with advice for osteoarthritis patients. The West, June 17, 2012, accessed July 19, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Overview. Funded research projects 2019. German Arthritis Aid, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  13. ↑ German Arthrosis Aid promotes quality register. Endoprosthesis Register Germany, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  14. ↑ DGOU Cartilage Register. German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Research Report 2012-2013. (PDF) Instrumented Implants (p. 32 ff). Charité Berlin, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Research Report 2011-2011. (PDF) Loading and Movement (p. 24 ff). Charité Berlin, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  17. ^ Georg Bergmann, Alwina Bender, Jörn Dymke, Georg Duda, Philipp Damm: Standardized Loads Acting in Hip Implants . In: PLoS One . No. 19 May, 2016. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0155612 . PMID 27195789 .
  18. ^ Philipp Damm, Alwina Bender, Georg Duda, Georg Bergmann: In vivo measured joint friction in hip implants during walking after a short rest . In: PLoS One . No. March 18, 2017. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0174788 . PMID 28350858 .
  19. ↑ Philipp Damm, Jip Zonneveld, Sophie Brackertz, Florian Streitparth, Tobias Winkler: Gluteal muscle damage leads to higher in vivo hip joint loads 3 months after total hip arthroplasty . In: PLoS One . No. 9th January, 2018. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0190626 . PMID 29315350 .
  20. ↑ Electronic research newsletter for the University Medical Center Greifswald. Closed reduction and intramedullary osteosynthesis with one or two Kirschner wires in the treatment of subcapital V metacarpal fractures. University Medicine Greifswald, December 4, 2012, accessed on June 28, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Heinrich Hess USA grant from GOTS and Deutsche Arthrose Hilfe eV Society for Orthopedic Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS), accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Chair for Experimental Orthopedics and Osteoarthritis Research. Saarland University Hospital, accessed on July 29, 2017 .