Key words: Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, rehabilitation, non-pharmacological treatments, review

1Department of Rheumatology, and 2Department of Orthopaedics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; 3Sophia Rehabilitation, The Hague, The Netherlands; 4Rijnlands Rehabilitation Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; 5Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 6Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver, Canada. Theodora P.M. Vliet Vlieland, MD Linda C. Li, PT, PhD Please address correspondence to: Dr T.P.M. Vliet Vlieland, Leiden University Medical Center Department of Rheumatology C1-R, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] Received and accepted on July 30, 2009. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2009; 27 (Suppl. 55): S171-S178. © Copyright CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY 2009.