Arthritis Care & Research
Official Journal of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
VOLUME 13, No. 5, October 2000
EDITORIALS
249 Clues to the Pathogenesis of Giant Cell Arteritis from the Study of the Vessel Wall
Jóhannes Björnsson
252 Osteoarthritis Treatment Approaches, Research Methodologies,
and Agenda: Do We Need to Re-Invent the Wheel?
John D. Bradley
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
255 Perceptions about Perceived Functional Disabilities
and Pain of People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Differences between Patients
and Their Spouses and Correlates with Well-Being
Robert P. Riemsma, Erik Taal, and Johannes J. Rasker
262 A Pilot Study on the Effects of Exercise in Patients
with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Ellen M. Schilling, Dorothy
Dunlop, Craig Langman, Philip Greenland, Randal J. Thomas, and Rowland
W. Chang
270 Physical Function Among Older Adults with Knee Pain:
The Role of Pain Coping Skills
Stephen R. Rapp, W. Jack Rejeski, and Mike E. Miller
280 Comparison of the Responsiveness of Symptomatic Outcome
Measures in Knee Osteoarthritis
Stephanie Gentelle-Bonnassies,
Philippe Le Claire, Maryse Mezieres, Xavier Ayral, and Maxime Dougados
286 Vessel Wall Morphometry
in Giant Cell Arteritis
C. Nordborg and V. Petursdottir
291 Reliability of the Six-Minute Walk Test in People with
Fibromyalgia
Brenda A. Pankoff, Tom J. Overend, S. Deborah Lucy, and
Kevin P. White
296 The Ability of the Cochin Rheumatoid Arthritis Hand
Functional Scale to Detect Change During the Course of Disease
Serge Poiraudeau, Marie
Martine Lefevre-Colau, Jacques Fermanian, and Michel Revel
304 A Pilot Study of Body Awareness Programs in the Treatment
of Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Sally Aspegren Kendall,
Kerstin Brolin-Magnusson, Birgitta Sören, BjörnGerdle, and Karl Gustav
Henriksson
312 Exploring the Priorities
of Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee
Deborah Tallon, Jiri
Chard, and Paul Dieppe
CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FIELD
320 Audience Motivations to Use an Arthritis Website
Robert A. Logan, Robin J. Nuttall, Susan E. Hazelwood,
Jerry C. Parker, Jane C. Johnson, John E. Hewett, and John C. Reid
BRIEF REPORT
330 The Effects of Bone Density Testing at Health Fairs
on Awareness and Treatment of Osteoporosis
Joan L. Boyd, Ralph Rothenberg, and John Holcomb
CASE REPORT
333 Proximal Symphalangism Associated with Conductive Hearing Loss
Hideto Akama, Masaya Kiyotaki, and Shinji Motojima
LETTERS
335 Late Onset Hypersensitivity to Sulfasalazine in a Patient
with Ankylosing Spondylitis: Comment on the Article by Paul et al
Catherine Marino and Elizabeth McDonald
335 Reply
Robert Paul, Ronald A. Cohen, and J. Scott Toder
336 Classification of Vasculitis: Comment on the Review by Matteson
Ulises Mercado
336 Reply
Eric L. Matteson
337 ANNOUNCEMENTS