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Innovative Rehabilitation in Asia Oceania: AOCPRM 2020 in Korea

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Professor Wen-shiang Chen and Professor Reynaldo Rey-Matias The 7th Asia-Oceanian Conference of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (AOCPRM 2020), in conjunction with the 34th Annual Congress of the Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (KARM), was successfully held between July 17 -18, 2020, at the Swiss Grand Hotel Seoul, Korea. The event, comprising more than 800 delegates, …

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Fragility Fracture Network Initiatives in Asia Pacific

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Professor Jacqueline Close, Dr. Irewin Tabu and Dato’ Dr. Joon-Kiong Lee The Fragility Fracture Network (FFN) is a global organisation which was founded in order to create a multidisciplinary network of experts for improving treatment and secondary prevention of fragility fractures. FFN is one of the seven founding member organisations of the Asia Pacific Fragility Fracture …

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Improving Fracture Liaison Services with patient-centred metrics

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Three leading international organisations have joined forces to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) designed to guide quality improvement in Fracture Liaison Services (FLSs), in response to the nine million fragility fractures occurring worldwide each year that are weighing heavily on healthcare systems. A recent paper published in Osteoporosis International outlines collaborative strategies formulated by the …

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IOF announces a great step forward for secondary fracture prevention

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On June 16, 2020, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) announced a partnership with Amgen and UCB, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, to support its Capture the Fracture® (CTF) programme. CTF is IOF’s global flagship programme that aims to facilitate, and provide guidance for, the implementation of Fracture Liaison Services (FLS), as a means …

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APFFA: Facilitating optimal fragility fracture management across Asia Pacific

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Global & regional osteoporosis alliance stages third annual meeting   Members of the Asia Pacific Fragility Fracture Alliance (APFFA) Joint Steering Committee (JSC) congregated for their third biannual member meeting on Sunday, May 31, 2020. The 14 JSC participants, representing APFFA’s seven global and regional member organisations from the geriatrics, orthopaedics, osteoporosis and rehabilitation sectors, …

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Secondary fracture prevention key to a healthy ageing population

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Hip or vertebral fractures in people aged 65 years or over is diagnostic of osteoporosis in the absence of another metabolic bone disease, regardless of bone mineral density, and is one of the strongest risk fractures for subsequent fractures.  Fractures are not a normal manifestation of aging. Osteoporosis is common. More than 1.1 million hip …

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