The Official Blog of The International Foundation of Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Arthritis
Welcome to the AiArthritis blog - This blog offers a wealth of resources and insights for patients, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers dealing with autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis diseases. It features posts on disease awareness, diagnosis, patient experiences, treatment strategies, and the latest research findings. The blog also highlights events, provides tips on managing symptoms, and shares stories from the community to foster a supportive network.
Disease Management
Explore ways to manage your AiArthritis Disease
Learn why the transition from pediatric to adult rheumatology care is about more than changing doctors. Discover how building skills, confidence, and support empowers young people to manage lifelong rheumatic disease during a critical stage of life.
Tracking your AiArthritis disease symptoms can improve the patient journey. Discover why and tips on how to track your symptoms.
Celebrating National Caregiver Day and their support for people living with AiArthritis diseases.
Information
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From the essential role of vitamin D to groundbreaking findings on exhausted T-cells, this research is shedding light on ways to better understand, manage, and treat autoimmune conditions.
Menopause is a significant, often under-discussed phase of life for patients with rheumatic diseases. The insights shared at ACR 2024 highlight the importance of comprehensive, patient-centered care.
Exploring New Research: Transforming Lives Through Better Understanding and Treatment
Understanding rare autoinflammatory disease Palindromic Rheumatism (PR)
Awareness
Find content on AiArthritis Disease awareness events
Celebrating National Caregiver Day and their support for people living with AiArthritis diseases.
Learn more about World Sjögren’s Day.
Discover more about Chronic Disease Awareness Day and why it matters.
Go With Us
Discover new ground breaking disease research from scientific conferences AiArthritis attends.
Learn why the transition from pediatric to adult rheumatology care is about more than changing doctors. Discover how building skills, confidence, and support empowers young people to manage lifelong rheumatic disease during a critical stage of life.
Explore the key points to a EULAR 2025 debate on cannabis for AiArthritis Diseases.
Pain is one of the most common and most misunderstood parts of living with autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis. Learn more about pain and what works beyond medications.
EULAR 2024: Leila's Updates on Exercise and Fatigue
Treatments
Learn the latest on AiArthritis Disease treatments
Learn why the transition from pediatric to adult rheumatology care is about more than changing doctors. Discover how building skills, confidence, and support empowers young people to manage lifelong rheumatic disease during a critical stage of life.
Pain is one of the most common and most misunderstood parts of living with autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis. Learn more about pain and what works beyond medications.
Cannabis use among people living with autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis (AiArthritis) has quietly shifted from a fringe conversation to a mainstream reality. Patients are using it for pain, sleep, nausea, anxiety, mood, and quality of life—often long before their doctors feel comfortable discussing it.
Patient Voices
Stories and words from people with lived experience.
Occupational therapy helps us better perform daily activities, maintain independence, and achieve a better overall quality of life
Stress has the ability to put me into a flare, and with autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis being progressive systemic diseases, that's a big deal to me as someone with lived experience.
Receiving our diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) is the first step on our ILD journey, and sometimes even that first step takes a long time and much perseverance before it happens.
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Learn why the transition from pediatric to adult rheumatology care is about more than changing doctors. Discover how building skills, confidence, and support empowers young people to manage lifelong rheumatic disease during a critical stage of life.
Tracking your AiArthritis disease symptoms can improve the patient journey. Discover why and tips on how to track your symptoms.
Celebrating National Caregiver Day and their support for people living with AiArthritis diseases.
Explore the key points to a EULAR 2025 debate on cannabis for AiArthritis Diseases.
Pain is one of the most common and most misunderstood parts of living with autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis. Learn more about pain and what works beyond medications.
Managing multiple specialists and treatment plans for autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis requires organization, proactive communication, and advocacy. Discover tips on how to do this.
Learn about the latest updates in axial spondyloarthritis research
Cannabis use among people living with autoimmune and autoinflammatory arthritis (AiArthritis) has quietly shifted from a fringe conversation to a mainstream reality. Patients are using it for pain, sleep, nausea, anxiety, mood, and quality of life—often long before their doctors feel comfortable discussing it.