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BJD GLOBAL NETWORK CONFERENCE 2010, LUND, SWEDEN

BJD INDIA 2010. MEASURING THE BURDEN OF RHEUMATIC MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN (RMSK) IN INDIA A Bone and Joint Decade (BJD) India initiative. Have you suffered from pain/swelling/stiffness in the joints/musculoskeletal soft tissues within last 7 days (current) or sometimes in the past?

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BJD GLOBAL NETWORK CONFERENCE 2010, LUND, SWEDEN

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  1. BJD INDIA 2010 MEASURING THE BURDEN OF RHEUMATIC MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN (RMSK) IN INDIA A Bone and Joint Decade (BJD) India initiative • Have you suffered from pain/swelling/stiffness in the joints/musculoskeletal soft tissues within last 7 days (current) or sometimes in the past? • BJD India adopted the revised Bhigwan model/ questionnaires (J Rheumatol 2009; 36 : 614) • Uniform standardized method BJD SITE BHIGWAN • 61,132 subjects surveyed at 12 sites ; 12,043 reported RMSK • Crude prevalence = 19.7% • Almost one fifth of Indian population may be suffering from some form of current/past rheumatic musculoskeletal ache and pain disorder Arvind Chopra, Manjit Saluja, Rohini Handa, Alekendu Ghosh, Anil Mahajan, Vaijayanti Lagoo-Joshi, Romi Singh, Bhaskar Thakuria, Binoy Paul, Asma Rahim, Ashish Mathews, Sarvajeet Paul, Gauri LA, Sarika Chaturvedi, Tapas Kumar, Datta Kumar, V Gajalakshmi, Anuradha Venugopalan, Sanjiv Sarmukkadam, K Mahendranath Institutions(1)Center for Rheumatic Diseases, Pune, India (2)  AIIMS, New Delhi, India (3)  Medical College,  Kolkatta, India (4)  Medical College, Jammu, India (5)  RIMS, Manipur, India (6)  Medical College,  Guwahati, India (7)  Medical College, Calicut, India (8)  Medical College, Trivandrum, India (9)  Arthritis Clinic, Hyderabad, India (10)  Medical College, Bikaner, India (11)  FRCH, Pune, India(12)  Institute Epidemiology, Chennai, India (13)  Arthritis Clinic, Bangalore, India BJD GLOBAL NETWORK CONFERENCE 2010, LUND, SWEDEN

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