Category Joint Health Tips

18 May

OAFI participated in the 1st Cellab Symposium of Regenerative Medicine

We participated in the 1st Cellab Symposium on Regenerative Medicine: “Applications in cell therapy” where Dr. Josep Verges highlighted: “the importance of the informed/empowered patient in all processes that affect them, the importance of prevention in all risk groups: childhood, athletes, women and seniors, and the ingredients of an ideal treatment in #artrosis”. Dr.Salarich mentioned […]

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17 Mar

The OAFI Foundation and the University of Barcelona’s Service of Development of Medicines (SDM) are collaborating to develop projects for joint health.

The International Osteoarthritis Foundation (OAFI), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to improve quality of life of people with osteoarthritis and the dissemination of actions for the prevention and treatment of osteoarthritis, and the University of Barcelona’s  Service of Development of Medicines (SDM), whose purpose is to promote innovation and creativity in the field of […]

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20 Jul

My Summer With Osteoarthritis

Don’t let osteoarthritis stop you from having fun and enjoying yourself this summer! Send us a photo of your Summer: Mail: info@oafifoundation.com Whatsapp: (+34) 602 252 279. Or posting it in the social networks using #MySummerWithOA Osteoarthritis is a serious disease that causes pain and directly affects the mobility and autonomy of those who suffer […]

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29 Jun

Prolonged use of sandals in summer can lead to osteoarthritis, bunions or tendonitis

Summer arrives and one of the first changes we make is in the way we dress. The high temperatures cause, mainly in the case of women, that we change from closed shoes to open sandals: going abruptly from using a shoe that completely supports the foot to sandals, in many cases with heels, that barely […]

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19 Jun

High fiber diet reduces the risk of knee osteoarthritis

It is the conclusion of two long-term studies conducted in the United States A diet rich in fiber is linked to a lower risk of painful knee osteoarthritis, according to the first study of its kind, published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases magazine. The findings, which are based on two separate long-term studies, […]

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