Adolescent and young adults
We have a dedicated service for adolescents and young adults who move up to our services from paediatric rheumatology. We also have additional support available for young adults who develop rheumatic conditions. We hope the information below is useful. Your care team will also be able to provide more support.
- Arthur’s Place
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) | Symptoms, treatments
- Young people | Living with arthritis, managing pain
- Sexual Health Service 4 Newcastle | Sexual Health service
- North Tyneside Sexual Health Service
Adult-onset Stills disease
Visit the Arthritis UK website for more information on adult-onset Still’s disease.
Fibromyalgia
Visit the links below for more information on Fibromyalgia.
- Fibromyalgia | Causes, symptoms, treatment | Arthritis UK
- Ten Footsteps to Living Well with Pain – Live Well with Pain
- Chronic or Persistent Musculoskeletal Pain – NHS TIMS
Gout, pseudogout (CPPDD or Crystal periarthritis)
Visit the Arthritis UK website for more information on these conditions.
- Gout | Causes, symptoms, treatments | Arthritis UK
- Calcific periarthritis | Causes, symptoms, treatments | Arthritis UK
Immunoglobulin G4 Disease
Visit the Vasculitis website for more information on Immunoglobulin G4 Disease.
Large vessel vasculitis, Behçet’s, GCA, PMR
More patient information on these conditions can be found below.
- Giant cell arteritis (GCA) | Causes, symptoms, treatments
- Giant Cell Arteritis / Temporal Arteritis – Vasculitis UK
- Vasculitis | Symptoms, causes | Arthritis UK
- Individual Diseases – Vasculitis UK
- Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) | Causes, symptoms, treatments
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) – Vasculitis UK
- Behçet’s syndrome | Causes, symptoms, treatments
- Behçet’s UK Medical Factsheets
Lupus (SLE) and Myositis
Patient information is available below for each of these conditions.
- Lupus (SLE) | Causes, symptoms, treatment | Arthritis UK
- What is Lupus? | Lupus UK
- Myositis | Arthritis UK
- Myositis UK
Metabolic Bone Disorders
Click the links below to find more information:
- Support for people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta | Brittle Bone.org
- Paget’s disease of bone | Arthritis UK
Osteoarthritis
Information about specific joints affected by osteoarthritis are available below:
- Osteoarthritis (OA) | Causes, symptoms, treatments
- Escape Pain – NHS TIMS
- Orthopaedics – Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Osteoporosis
The Royal Osteoporosis Society website is an excellent source of information on the condition, exercise, diet and treatments.
We recommend you aim to get all the calcium you need through a balanced diet. To see whether you are getting enough calcium from your diet, you can use the online calcium calculator from the University of Edinburgh.
Primary Sjogren’s syndrome
More patient information on Sjogren’s syndrome is available below.
Psoriatic arthritis
Patient information is available below for psoriatic arthritis.
- Psoriatic arthritis | Psoriatic arthritis | Causes, symptoms, treatments
- Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Alliance (PAPAA)
Raynaud’s, Systemic Sclerosis, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and CTD-ILD
More patient information on these conditions can be found below.
- Systemic sclerosis | Scleroderma | Arthritis UK
- Scleroderma – information, advice and support | SRUK
- Raynaud’s phenomenon | Causes, symptoms, treatments
- Raynaud’s | SRUK
Reactive arthritis
Visit the Arthritis UK website for more information on reactive arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis
Visit the Arthritis UK website for more information on rheumatoid arthritis.
Spondyloarthritis
Patients in our axial spondyloarthritis service have additional access to specialist physiotherapy service delivered by our extended scope physiotherapist in rheumatology conditions – Maureen (Mo) Motion. Her role as lead physiotherapist for Rheumatology at Newcastle Hospitals involves a first point contact clinic for Inflammatory back pain screening and diagnosis, working as part of the Newcastle Hospitals Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) clinics.
Visit the websites below for more information on Spondyloarthritis.
