In case of a shoulder pain, either young or old, most often it refers to an impingement syndrome. This is unpleasant, but generally not dangerous. Over 50, shoulder pain may also cover a more complex rheumatic disease…

Society is getting older. In Hungary, people aged 65 and over now make up a quarter of the population, and their number has already overtaken that of young people under 18. The challenges of an ageing population are widely discussed in many fields, so it’s no surprise that we, as rheumatologists, decided to organise a course focusing on inflammatory musculoskeletal diseases in older patients.