What we do
Rheumatological disorders in
adults, including inflammatory arthritis managed as a
multi-disciplinary team with involvement of physiotherapists,
occupational therapists, and specialist nurses, and excellent day
unit facilities for biological therapy administration.
Our specialisms
- Patient-initiated (Direct Access) appointments system
- Osteoporosis service
- Specialist connective tissue diseases clinic
- Combined orthopaedic hand clinic
- Combined orthopaedic lower limb clinic
- Combined podiatry clinic
- Combined dermatology clinic
- Postgraduate training
- Undergraduate teaching
- Clinical research
Further information for patients
We also treat patients with other musculoskeletal disorders such
as osteoarthritis, a range of connective tissue diseases, and bone
disorders such as osteoporosis, osteomalacia and Paget's
disease.
Conditions we treat
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Reactive arthritis
- Viral arthritis
- Other inflammatory arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Connective tissue diseases
- SLE
- Scleroderma
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Myositis
- Behcet's syndrome
- Vasculitis
- Giant cell (temporal) arteritis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Osteoporosis
- Metabolic bone disease
- Paget's disease
- Crystal arthritis (e.g. gout)
- Fibromyalgia
- Complex regional pain syndrome (reflex sympathetic
dystrophy)
- Back pain
- Sciatica
- Joint hypermobility syndrome
- Soft-tissue complaints
- Frozen shoulder
- Rotator cuff syndrome
- Tennis and golfer's elbow
- Trigger finger
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
Treatments we offer
- Diagnosis
- Reassurance
- Medical (drug) therapies
- Analgesics
- Anti-inflammatories
- Glucocorticoids
- Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and other
immunosuppressants
- Anti-TNF therapies
- Rituximab
- Intravenous bisphosphonates
- Intra-articular injections
- Soft-tissue injections
- Specialist physiotherapy
- Specialist occupational therapy
- Patient Education
Contact us
Rheumatology Department
The Courtyard
Old Building
Bristol Royal Infirmary
BS2 8HW
Tel: 0117 342 2902
Fax: 0117 342 3841
Referral
information for clinicians
