Paediatric Rheumatology Outpatient Clinic

Opening hours and contact information

Visiting address

Tyks Lighthouse Hospital

Savitehtaankatu 5

Turku

2nd floor, section M

Postal address

PO Box 52

20521 Turku

Phone

02 313 0772

Cancelling and rescheduling appointments, other acute matters

Mo–Fr 8:00–8:45, 14:45–15:15

Children and adolescents under 16 with juvenile arthritis, connective tissue disorders and young patients suffering from other joint problems are treated and studies in our clinic. Most of the patients suffer from juvenile arthritis.

You need a doctor's referral to be admitted.

Patients visit the clinic every 3 to 6 months, depending on their condition. The visit lasts from 30 to 45 minutes.

The visit includes a physician's practice visit, an arthritis nurse's practice visit and a physiotherapist's examination. An ultrasound study of joints can be performed during the visit. Local treatment of joints by corticosteroids can be performed, if required. Patients suffering from juvenile arthritis need to fill in an electronic follow-up form (Go Treat It) before visits. The nurse can give information about medicines and teach injection methods during visits.

The treatment of children suffering from rheumatological diseases requires multi-professional team work, which is why we co-operate closely with rehabilitation counsellors, family workers, ophthalmologists and dentists among others.

Blood samples or X-rays are not taken at the clinic, but in the appropriate facilities of the laboratory or the imaging centre. Usually the necessary examinations are supposed to be performed before the scheduled appointment.

Hospitals

Tyks Lighthouse hospital

In the Lighthouse hospital we have paediatric and adolescent medicine, gynaecology and obstetrics, ear, nose and throat diseases and oral and maxillofacial diseases. You can also find some of the medical imaging functions in the Lighthouse hospital.