2017 in Review: Growth and Accomplishments - Osteoarthritis Action Alliance

Thank you all for a fantastic year. We have made great strides in many of our goals and objectives. We have a lot of exciting projects in the works for 2018, but first we want to reflect on all we have accomplished this year.

Conferences

Active Living Research
American College of Rheumatology
American Public Health Association
American College of Sports Medicine
Obesity Week
National Walking Summit
National Athletic Trainer Association
North Carolina Rheumatology Association
Meadowmont Health Expo
North Carolina Healthy Aging Summit

Education and Awareness

While we focus on raising awareness and education around Osteoarthritis, we also actively promote our member organization’s causes.

In the Press

The Doctor Weighs In “What Really Works to Reduce Osteoarthritis Pain in the Knee?”
Chapel Hill Magazine Walk With a Doc feature
Our magnanimous co-chairs published two blogs

Journals:
Preventing Chronic Disease
North Carolina Musculoskeletal Health
World Journal of Orthopedics

Workgroups

Workgroup members are volunteers that typically have expertise in the area of interest of the workgroup and/or are representatives of partnering organizations that focus on the area of interest.

You can read highlights of the workgroups’ activities on our website.

Eat lunch. Learn about OA.

On the third Wednesday of every month we hold our Lunch and Learn webinar series. Our experts this year covered topics from physical activity, evidence-based programs, health disparities and more! You can view all of our webinars on our YouTube channel.

Newsletters

We have a variety of newsletters that include relevant events, current OA news, research updates, member spotlights and Alliance updates. Subscribe.

Connect and Explore

In May we released a Walk With Ease class zero video for community-based organizations to learn more about Walk With Ease and to help recruit participants to their workshop. It can also be shown prior to the workshop start date as a “pre-workshop session.” For more information and resources visit our resource library.

Infographics

We released two infographics: OA is a Central Problem and Osteoarthritis: staying in the game is a ‘joint’ effort! You can learn more about the information found in the infographics and how to share this information on our website. These infographics led to a combined total of 20,500 impressions!

Video and Web

Our webinars had over 2,000 views in the past year alone. Want to see something in particular in 2018? Let us know!

This year we had 16,500 unique page views on our website! We are working hard on a website redesign that will include new navigation, home page, and refreshed content. We hope with our website redesign you will be able to engage even more with our information and resources.

Within, the first 6 months of our 2017 Walk With Ease Expansion Mini-Grant program, our grantees have enrolled 870 participants. Learn more about implementing WWE in your community and other evidence-based programs in our resource library.

Coming Up in January

Look out for our 2018 Mini-Grant Walk With Ease Expansion recipient announcement right after the new year!

We have joined APHA’s 1 Billion Steps Challenge! Start out the new year with a walk with family, friends or your community. The earlier you join the sooner we reach 1 billion!
Join our team in APHA’s 1 Billion Steps Challenge today!

Lunch and Learn Webinar with Dr. Miruna G. Petrescu-Prahova, PhD, January 17th 12pm ET. She will be discussing Enhance Fitness Dissemination and Implementation. Registration.