Arthritis in Children and Adolescents

Remembering Barbara: a tribute to Barbara Ansell; Remembering Jerry C. Jacobs: a tribute to a mentor; Tribute to Vinny Londino; SECTION 1 - THE APPROACH TO THE CHILD WITH MUSCULOSKELETAL COMPLAINTS; 1. Clinical skills in the evaluation for arthritis; 2. The use of investigations and imagining in the evaluation for arthritis; 3. Common presenting problems; 4. Acute inflammatory rheumatic syndromes; 5. Acute and chronic infections of bones and joints; 6. Major rheumatic diseases; 7. Autoinflammatory diseases and distinct but rare rheumatic diseases; 8. Non-inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders; 9. Idiopathic pain syndromes; 10. Musculokeletal and autoimmune manifestations of non-rheumatic disorders; 11. Disorders of bone and connective tissue; SECTION 2 - JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS; 12. Introduction to the classifcation of childhood arthritis; 13. Systemic Arthritis; 14. Oligoarthritis; 15. Rheumatoid Factor Positive Polyarthritis; 16. Rheumatoid Factor Negative Polyarthritis; 17. Psoriatic Arthritis; 18. Enthesitis Related Arthritis; 19. Undifferentiated Arhtritis; 20. Immunopathology of the joint in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; 21. Genetic and cytokine associations in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; 22. Environmental Factors in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; SECTION 3 - THE APPROACH TO TREATING JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS; 23. Introduction to section 3 - differential diagnosis and treatment; 24. Patient-centred care and the team approach; 25. Adolescent rheumatology services; 26. Disease evaluation; 27. Education issues in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; 28. Psychosocial aspects of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; 29. Pain assessment and management; 30. Pharmacological treatment of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; 31. Physiotherapy and occupational therapy; 32. Nutrition; 33. Adjunctive therapies; 34. Surgical interventions in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis; 35. Clinical trials; 36. Pharmacological treatment of refractory arthritis; 37. Joint injection appendix