The National Ankylosing Spondolitis Society
The National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS) is a
patient organisation providing the essential patient education
which helps AS patients better manage this progressive condition.The
average age of disease onset is 23 years old and part of
the management of the condition is regular physiotherapy.
This should be carried out in the home and the society has
provided a video for this purpose. In addition, we have
formed over 100 branches, each one providing supervised
physiotherapy one evening a week. We are treating over 2000
people each week by this method.
As the condition is not well understood outside of rheumatology,
the society also acts as an information centre on different
aspects of the disease. Patients contact us through e-mail,
post, telephone etc on a daily basis. The society produces
publications, including a Guidebook for Patients, of which
they donate 5,000 copies each year. This publication appears
on the internet at:
www.nass.co.uk
Email: nass@nass.co.uk
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