The Psychosocial Burden of Psoriasis

The Psychosocial Burden of Psoriasis
A review of current literature regarding how psoriasis affects mental functioning, social life, relationships…

The Role of Physiotherapy in Psoriatic Arthritis

Your GP may have a physiotherapist in their practice. This physiotherapist will be a general musculoskeletal physiotherapist with skills in…

Tight control in psoriatic arthritis

What is the objective of the project?

The objective is to establish the best treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA), improving the treatment for…

Tips for teenagers

The changes that occur in your body during teenage life are stressful enough. When you have psoriasis, they can seem many times worse. Any form of…

Transitional care issues for adolescents with psoriatic arthritis

Approximately 1 in 1000 children in the UK have Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) ie a chronic arthritis of unknown cause presenting before the…

What can I do about my Psoriasis

Although there is no cure for psoriasis there are many things that can be done to help you control the problem and learn to cope with it.

Each…

Why do I feel so tired?

Occasional tiredness is normal, and affects everyone. But people with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis often feel tired all the time. Some people…

You and your diet

One of the main areas of interest in altering diet to help people with psoriatic arthritis, has been in the use of fish oils. More precisely it is…

Obesity hormone linked to psoriasis

Leptin, a hormone involvd in appetite regulation, was discovered in 1994. Leptin binds to special cells in the appetite centre of the brain where it…

Causality and Correlation

One of the most common misunderstandings about the relationship between two observations is the difference between causality and correlation. Two…

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