Saturday 7 May is commemorated as World AS Day, an annual day dedicated to people living with Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA), which is a spectrum of long-term inflammatory disease characterised by chronic inflammatory back pain. Maranda van Dam, founder of ASASA, chats to Leigh-Anne Williams about what axSpA is, ways to treat this illness as well as the impact that it has on you physically and emotionally too. 

<p>Saturday 7 May is commemorated as World AS Day, an annual day dedicated to people living with Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA), which is a spectrum of long-term inflammatory disease characterised by chronic inflammatory back pain. Maranda van Dam, founder of ASASA, chats to Leigh-Anne Williams about what axSpA is, ways to treat this illness as well as the impact that it has on you physically and emotionally too.&nbsp;</p>

Leigh-Anne hosts the The Morning Show, Monday to Friday on Good Hope FM

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