By Dr Irwin Lim on July 1, 2011

By Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist It was a wet long weekend, October 2010. I was searching the itunes store for apps to showcase on my ipad and lamenting ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on June 19, 2011

By Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist At BJC Health, we spend a lot of time educating patients about their disease. In particular, we spend a lot of time at ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on June 13, 2011

By Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist Up to 20% of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) have a relatively good prognosis, with occasional flares and low ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on June 7, 2011

I find it quite difficult to explain the sacroiliac joint to patients. A picture or a desktop model of the spine can be helpful. This animation is ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on June 4, 2011

Lots of people have joint pain or other joint problems. Most of the time, there are not due to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). There is no single test to ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 30, 2011

Rheumatoid Arthritis is considered first & foremost a joint disease, an arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis can start in any joint but most commonly, ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 24, 2011

By Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist One of the major diseases we have expertise in treating in BJC Health is Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). I thought it was ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 13, 2011

For this post, all I've done is embed an experiment in Digital Storytelling using a new social media tool called Storify. Kudos to Kathie Melocco ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 8, 2011

By Irwin Lim, Rheumatologist I woke up on Friday with a sore, hoarse voice. By the time, I reached work, it was worse and after my morning list of ...

By Dr Irwin Lim on May 2, 2011

In November 2010, I pitched the concept of a seminar directed at physiotherapists. The focus would be on Ankylosing Spondylitis & other ...