{"id":7798,"date":"2017-07-06T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=7798"},"modified":"2022-10-15T02:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T02:46:48","slug":"national-blueprint-for-injury-prevention-in-drivers-with-arthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/national-blueprint-for-injury-prevention-in-drivers-with-arthritis\/","title":{"rendered":"National Blueprint for Injury Prevention in Drivers with Arthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #666666; background: white;\">People with arthritis diseases are at higher risk for car crashes. When operating a motor vehicle these drivers may experience pain, fatigue, decreased mobility, joint stiffness and decreased reaction time. Because of arthritis, they may have problems with seating for long periods, getting in and out of the car and doing a shoulder check while backing up or changing lane. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #666666; background: white;\">A new<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/caot.in1touch.org\/document\/5643\/Driving_Eng_FINAL.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; background: white;\">National Blueprint for Injury Prevention in Drivers with Arthritis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #666666; background: white;\">\u00a0has been launched as a guiding document for teams interested in advancing research, training curricula, practices and policies to support drivers with arthritis.\u00a0 This blueprint is directed towards the health and wellness needs of the over 4.6 million Canadians diagnosed with arthritis who want to maintain their occupation of driving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 7.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caot.in1touch.org\/document\/5643\/Driving_Eng_FINAL.pdf\"><span style=\"background: white;\">Access\u00a0The National Blueprint for Injury Prevention in Drivers with Arthritis document\u00a0(2017)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caot.in1touch.org\/document\/5643\/Driving_Eng_FINAL.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7799\" src=\"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/carsp-acpser\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blueprint-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blueprint-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/carsp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/blueprint.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with arthritis diseases are at higher risk for car crashes. When operating a motor vehicle these drivers may experience pain, fatigue, decreased mobility, joint stiffness and decreased reaction time. Because of arthritis, they may have problems with seating for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-partner-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19391,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7798\/revisions\/19391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}