From quiz nights to coffee mornings and bake sales, organising a step challenge or a dress down day at work or school, there’s no limit to what you can do to Go Orange for AS and raise vital funds for NASS!
Email Richard and Marcia at fundraising@nass.co.uk or call 020 8741 1515 (press option 2)
“I collapsed with severe back spasms, and could no longer walk. It was pain that I had never imagined being possible.” It took Jane 5 years to get diagnosed with axial SpA. Having started biologic treatment, Jane feels ready to get back to exercise. She and her friend, Lara, are going Orange for AS by meeting in Lee Valley Park to walk 8 miles to raise vital funds for NASS.
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Find out more1 in 200 of the adult population in the UK have axial SpA (AS). That's twice as many as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.
Axial SpA (AS) is a condition that affects young people. Symptoms start late teens to early twenties, with the average age of onset being 26.
The current average delay to diagnosis from when symptoms start is 8.5 years, by which irreversible damage to the spine may have occurred.
59% of people with axial SpA (AS) report experiencing mental health problems compared to 25% of those with musculoskeletal conditions overall.