Psoriatic Arthritis Awareness
VIDEO: Educating clinicians, patients key to increasing awareness of psoriatic arthritis
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Education, education, and education. So I would say that of course, we want to be educating younger rheumatologists and dermatologists who are coming out and may not have seen that much psoriatic arthritis in their training program to make them aware of how to recognize psoriatic arthritis in their patient population. We are also focusing quite a lot on education of non-rheumatologist so primary care physicians, orthopedist, pain specialist, physical therapist to be on the lookout for patients with psoriasis who may be developing musculoskeletal complaints and may have psoriatic arthritis. It's surprising to me the long journey that many patients go through, going through various physicians who've never heard of psoriatic arthritis.