New campaign to reduce delay in diagnosis for people with axial spondyloarthritis

The National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS) has launched a new campaign aimed at ophthalmologists, dermatologists and gastroenterologists called Back Pain Plus. The initiative aims to encourage professionals in these fields to think about the link between axial spondyloarthritis including ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and acute anterior uveitis (AAU), psoriasis and inflammatory bowel diease (IBD). As it stands 26% of people with AS have AAU and 40% of people with acute anterior uveitis have spondyloarthritis. Then 9% of people with AS have psoriasis and 7% have IBD.  The delay in diagnosis from onset of symptoms for people with AS still stands at 8.5 years and Back Pain