Welcome to
Healthy Joints
Your program to improving your arthritis
Why Wait is here for you and your osteoarthritis
Why Wait has been specially designed by clinicians at Western Health and researchers at Victoria University for people in the western suburbs of Melbourne who have osteoarthritis.
It has been designed to help you manage and improve your osteoarthritis whilst you are waiting for a specialist consultation.
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Feel Better
Learn about how osteoarthritis works, take control of your condition, and improve your pain and other symptoms.
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Do More
Why Wait will guide you to set goals, progress and support you as you get active, enabling you to do more things with the people you love.
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Understand Your Options
Not everyone with osteoarthritis needs surgery. Research shows that doing the activities recommended in Why Wait, you can change your osteoarthritis, meaning surgery isn't your only option.
If you do need surgery, Why Wait can help you to prepare for it and help you to recover better afterwards.
Healthy Joints Can Help
How does it work?
It has been designed to help you manage and improve your osteoarthritis whilst you are waiting for a specialist consultation.
Set a personal goal at the beginning and work towards achieving your goal by working through the modules and managing your osteoarthritis well.
Each module has straightforward information, resources, videos and techniques that are easy to understand and follow.
All the information on Why Wait has been developed by healthcare and osteoarthritis experts from Western Health and Victoria University.
