Find support, or help research
People near you who know what living with Ankylosing spondylitis is like, and ways you can help find better treatments.
Support groups in Germany
- Deutsche Vereinigung Morbus Bechterew (DVMB) Landesverband Sachsen e.V.Self-help association in Saxony for people with ankylosing spondylitis and their families, offering counselling, local groups, events and networks.Freital
- Deutsche Vereinigung Morbus Bechterew e.V. BundesverbandPatient association for people with ankylosing spondylitis / axial spondyloarthritis in Germany; listed as a member of ASIF.All of Germany
- Deutsche Vereinigung Morbus Bechterew Landesverband Baden-Württemberg e.V.Stuttgart-based association for people with ankylosing spondylitis in Baden-Württemberg, offering information, local groups, free counselling and group therapy.All of Germany
- Deutsche Vereinigung Morbus Bechterew Landesverband Brandenburg (DVMB-BB)Self-help organisation in Berlin-Brandenburg for people with ankylosing spondylitis or related spondyloarthritis and their relatives, with local groups and information.All of Germany
- Deutsche Vereinigung Morbus Bechterew Landesverband Hessen e.V.Hessen state association for people with Morbus Bechterew (ankylosing spondylitis), offering information, local groups, free anonymous advice and legal advice for members.All of Germany
- Deutsche Vereinigung Morbus Bechterew Landesverband Niedersachsen e.V.Lower Saxony self-help association for people with ankylosing spondylitis, offering information, local groups, free counselling and member legal advice.All of Germany
- Deutsche Vereinigung Morbus Bechterew Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V.North Rhine-Westphalia branch of a self-help group for people with ankylosing spondylitis, offering information, local groups, free counselling and seminars.All of Germany
- DVMB Landesverband Bayern e.V.Bavarian state association of the DVMB for people with Morbus Bechterew, with local groups, information and events.All of Germany
- DVMB Landesverband Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.Berlin-Brandenburg state association of the DVMB, a self-help organisation of patients with ankylosing spondylitis, with local groups in the region.Eisenhüttenstadt
- DVMB Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V.North Rhine-Westphalia state association of the DVMB, a self-help organisation for people with ankylosing spondylitis, with local groups and news.Dortmund
Contact details come from each group's own page and are checked every 3 months.
Help research
You do not need to join a trial to help. Below are the programmes we found in Germany and how to reach them. You contact them yourself: Frontlight does not collect or pass on your details.
Give blood or tissue for researchResearchers use stored samples to find what causes Ankylosing spondylitis.
Share your health dataA registry collects health data, without your name, so research teams can study many people at once.
Take part as a healthy volunteerStudies need people without Ankylosing spondylitis to compare with. Family and friends can help.