As an arthritis patient, you can make a difference in the fight against arthritis and related conditions with this free app.
IN THE PRESS
About Arthritis Power
As an arthritis patient, you can make a difference in the fight against arthritis and related conditions with this free app.
ArthritisPower puts your health information in your hands! Track your symptoms, treatments and other health data from your computer or smartphone.
Overtime you will better understand changes in your condition and be able to work with your doctor to make informed treatment decisions.
See how your symptoms are changing – or holding steady – over time. How are you responding to new medications or other changes in treatment?
Speed the arrival of personalized medicine by helping researchers learn how different treatments work for different people. Information you provide will be overseen in a secure process that allows only trusted experts to use your information for scientific research.
Send secure reports to yourself or to your doctor summarizing information you have logged. Share how you’ve been doing to help your care team and loved ones better understand your condition.
View your reports in daily; weekly, or monthly snapshots depending on the frequency with which you track. Empower yourself with personal data to better understand your symptoms.
Join Arthritis Power
CreakyJoints has teamed up with rheumatology researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham to launch ArthritisPower, a non-profit, patient-inspired and patient-managed research initiative.
THE NUMBERS
42,885
Patients
61,737
Reported Treatments
773,392
Reported Outcomes
Consider joining today. Transform your story into powerful clues that will help researchers develop better treatments and, ultimately, a cure.
For All Devices
Track your symptoms and view results wherever it’s convenient for you. ArthritisPower is available for multiple devices and platforms —from desktop to smartphone to tablet.
The people behind Arthritis Power
In 2014, CreakyJoints created a Patient-Powered Research Network called ArthritisPower® in partnership with the University of Alabama at Birmingham. ArthritisPower is part of the interconnected National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet), a collaboration of patient groups, registries and health systems.
Shilpa Venkatachalam
PhD, MPH, Principal Investigator
Shilpa Venkatachalam, PhD, MPH, is Associate Director, Patient-Centered Research, at the Global Healthy Living Foundation (GHLF), CreakyJoints® and Co- Principal Investigator (PI) of ArthritisPower® Patient-Powered Research Network. Dr. Venkatachalam completed her undergraduate degree in Mumbai, before moving to the United Kingdom to complete a master’s degree in literature at the University of Durham, and earned her PhD in critical theory at the University of Nottingham. Following significant life events that required navigating health systems as patient and a caregiver, she earned an advanced master’s degree in global health from New York University (NYU), during which she also won the prestigious Paul Ambrose Scholars Program fellowship awarded by the by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. Her research interests include patient engagement, chronic pain management and shared decision making in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. She was among 25 chosen by The Young Persons Chronic Disease Network in collaboration with American Cancer Society and the Harvard Global Equity Center for The Global Cancer Advocacy Training in 2015 and she has been a regular panelist for video conference presentations on Global Health Topics by the Ambassador’s Club at the United Nations as part of a UNITAIR initiative. She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 2017.
Jeff Curtis
MD, MS, MPH, Co-Principal Investigator
Jeff Curtis, MD, MS, MPH is Professor of Medicine, U. of Alabama at Birmingham and Co-Principal Investigator of ArthritisPower® Patient-Powered Research Network. He served on the Core Expert Panel for the ACR’s 2008, 2012, and 2015 Recommendations for the Use of Nonbiologic and Biologic Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in RA and was the Deputy Director for a collaborative project between the FDA, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and a number of academic centers studying the safety of biologic agents using multiple, pooled national data sources. The evaluation of the efficacy, comparative effectiveness, and safety of the medications used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis are among Dr. Curtis’s research interests. He also serves as the co-PI of the UAB Coordinating Center of the American College of Rheumatology’s (ACR) electronic health record-based registry Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) registry. He was appointed a member of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Herpes Zoster workgroup. He was a member of the ACR’s task force to update recommendations for the management of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis (GIOP). He served on the ASBMR Task Force on Atypical Subtrochanteric and Diaphyseal Fractures. Additionally, Dr. Curtis is a member of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), and the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). He has been on the editorial board for Arthritis & Rheumatism, Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety (PDS) and Arthritis Care and Research (AC&R).
PATIENT CENTERED
This innovative, nationwide research network of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis (e.g., psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis), and other conditions is led by a Patient Governor Group with input from the wider CreakyJoints community, putting patients at the center of all research conducted with ArthritisPower.
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All portrait illustrations by CreakyJoints member Sal Marx.
Patient Governors are the critical connection between research scientists and the CreakyJoints community of people living with arthritis. They tell us what issues are important to study from their perspective. They speak from their own experience to flag potential challenges so we can adjust when preparing to do research.
Shilpa Venkatachalam, PhD, MPH, Director, Patient-Centered Research Operations and Ethical Oversight, Global Healthy Living Foundation and President of GHLF North Africa.
ArthritisPower Core Features
From tracking your symptoms and medications to sharing your experience, ArthritisPower is there for you.
Share
Share results with family / caregivers / healthcare professionals
Research Opportunities
Participate in paid / unpaid surveys and studies
Education
Access to educational resources about your condition
Medications
Enter/Keep track of treatments
Tracking
Track your health with customized assessments
Analytics
View results over time / see how symptoms are changing / identify causes of symptom changes
In The Press
Read about what people are saying about Arthritis Power and the app
“According to the Nowell and colleagues, an online, app-based method [ArthritisPower] for obtaining patient data between visits may improve accessibility and participation in a study or remote patient monitoring system requiring multiple data collection points within the same week…The entirely virtual nature of this longitudinal study is promising for future research with RA and PsA patients adopting remote patient monitoring as an essential component of digital health, where out-of-office data capture from patients is critical.”
“After obtaining consent to participate, the ArthritisPower Research Registry collects data from patients with arthritis via a free smartphone or desktop application. Participants can select from dozens of validated Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) that help people self-assess (measure) their experience of pain, fatigue, and other symptoms…Recently, we asked women with arthritis about their experience, concerns, and preferences with reproductive health issues. Data stemming from that research was presented at a major medical meeting and later published in a peer-review journal, thereby increasing our understanding of arthritis.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Please keep in mind that throughout your use of ArthritisPower, you can provide feedback or ask questions at any time by contacting us. We’ve listed some frequently asked questions here for your convenience.
What conditions are included in the registry?
Currently our research includes the following conditions:
Ankylosing Spondylitis, Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) including Non-radiographic axSpA, Ankylosing spondylitis, D.I.S.H. diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (D.I.S.H.), Dermatomyositis, Fibromyalgia, Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA), Gout, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Lupus, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD), Osteoarthritis (degenerative arthritis), Osteoporosis/Osteopenia/low bone mineral density, Other vasculitis, Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR), Polymyositis, Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Relapsing Polychondritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Scleroderma (Systemic sclerosis)] and Sjogren’s syndrome, Temporal Arteritis, Undifferentiated Connected Tissue Disease (UCTD), Wegener’s
Will ArthritisPower keep my information confidential?
Yes. The information you provide will only be used for tracking trends among patients. The only time your information would be shared with identifying data is if we are linking the data with a health institution and we want to ensure the correct person’s data is being used. Besides this, your info will not be connected with you in any way.
Is it required for me to give my Social Security number (SSN)?
No! In the event that we do ask for it, it is completely optional. It is not necessary to provide your SSN to participate in ArthritisPower.
Can ArthritisPower make health recommendations for me?
Unfortunately, no. The purpose of ArthritisPower is to track your health for both your benefit and the benefit of research. However, we will let you know about research findings to keep you up-to-date on what scientists are learning from the data you are contributing so that you can work with your doctor on your health decision making.
Contact Us
Get in touch with our team and we will assist you with any questions you may have!
