Health information, not a diagnosis
Good bone and joint health begins with regular movement, appropriate strength work, balanced nutrition, injury prevention, and timely assessment when symptoms persist.
General information cannot replace examination or individual medical advice. For urgent injury, severe pain, weakness, numbness, deformity, or loss of function, seek qualified medical care promptly.
Current awareness library
The first AOS public-awareness pages are being organised around common patient questions: knee osteoarthritis, shoulder pain myths, and night leg cramps.
These pages support Facebook posts with slightly fuller explanations, warning signs, and practical next steps.
AOS Bone & Joint Week 2026
AOS observed Bone & Joint Week from 2 August to 9 August 2026 under the IOA/UPOA public-awareness theme: One week, one activity, one community impact.
The work expanded into the month-long Agra Moves Better - 2026 campaign, carrying practical prevention messages on bone strength, joint care, posture, ergonomics, falls, road safety, sports injury and healthy ageing across Agra.
- 1 August 2026: Agra Moves Better launch and Media, NGO & Founding Partners' Meet.
- 2 August 2026: Police Wellness & Family Health Camp at Police Lines, Agra.
- 3 August 2026: Media-awareness and hospital-based BMD screening record.
- 4 August 2026: National Bone & Joint Day Police Workplace Ergonomics and CPR awareness programme at Police Lines, Agra.
- 6 August 2026: Community bone-health screening and awareness outreach with local women’s and service organisations.
- 7 August 2026: Akashvani radio awareness and G.L. Public School posture/movement outreach.
- 9-27 August 2026: campaign expansion through hospitals, schools, senior-citizen groups, workplaces, sports settings, District Jail, Air Force Station Agra, Agra Airport and four-site BMD outreach.
- 30 August 2026: Agra Moves Better closing ceremony and partner recognition.
Agra Moves Better - 2026
Agra Moves Better - 2026 was formally launched on 1 August 2026 and documented as a month-long city-wide public-awareness initiative for preventive musculoskeletal health.
The campaign took AOS messages beyond clinics into police institutions, schools, hospitals, senior-citizen groups, women’s organisations, workplaces, sports settings, District Jail, Air Force Station Agra and Agra Airport.
- Campaign message: Better Bones, Better Life, Better Agra.
- Master dossier record: 48 register entries, 46 programme/site entries and 36 BMD-linked entries across the August campaign record.
- Principal founding partners: Agra Police, IMA, Lions Clubs International, UPOA and IOA.
- AOS leadership: Dr Atul Kulshreshtha, President; Dr Sanjay Chaturvedi, Secretary; Dr Sanjiv Vohra, Treasurer; Dr D. V. Sharma, Chairman, Public Awareness Committee.
- Selected photographs
- Public-awareness PDFs and campaign dossiers
- Live Agra Moves Better photo album
- Media coverage and newspaper cuttings
Police Wellness & Family Health Camp
On 2 August 2026, AOS organised a Police Wellness & Family Health Camp at the Police Training Centre, Police Lines, Agra, in association with Agra Police, VAMA Saarthi and Police Hospital.
The activity brought preventive orthopaedic and neurological screening to police personnel and their families, with report review and counselling on posture, exercise, nutrition, sunlight exposure and safe screen use.
- Approximately 200 people were reached.
- 100 BMD tests and 60 Vitamin-D tests were recorded in the activity dossier.
- Clinical services included BMD screening, selected Vitamin-D testing, neurological assessment, orthopaedic consultation and individual counselling.
- Photographs from the camp are available in the gallery
Media Awareness & BMD Screening Record
On 3 August 2026, the Agra Moves Better record combined public-health messaging through supplied Hindi print-media coverage with preventive bone-health screening through two BMD machines deployed at multiple hospitals in Agra.
The public message connected road-safety trauma prevention, police occupational musculoskeletal health and early joint-care with timely assessment and safer daily movement.
- Three supplied print clippings carried AOS-linked prevention messages on road trauma, police ergonomics and early knee, bone and muscle health.
- Two BMD machines were recorded as deployed for hospital-based screening across multiple hospitals.
- The campaign messages included safer roads, timely response, CPR awareness, duty ergonomics, posture, stretching, early joint-care and healthy movement.
- Figures quoted in the dossier are reproduced from supplied press coverage and external study references; they are not presented as results of an AOS screening cohort.
- Daily Activity & Media Dossier, 3 August 2026
- Selected media coverage and newspaper cuttings
National Bone & Joint Day: Fit Police, Strong Spine
On 4 August 2026, AOS continued Agra Moves Better - 2026 with a Police Workplace Ergonomics and CPR awareness programme at Prashant Memorial Hall, Police Lines, Agra.
The programme focused on practical duty-related prevention: posture during standing, patrolling, driving and desk work, safe lifting, duty-break stretching, and early attention to neck, back, shoulder and knee pain.
- Programme message: Fit Police, strong spine, better service.
- Activity focus: CPR awareness, Police Workplace Ergonomics, safe movement and injury prevention.
- Campaign context: National Bone & Joint Day under Agra Moves Better - 2026.
- Photographs from the programme are available in the gallery
Community Bone-Health Screening & Awareness Outreach
On 6 August 2026, AOS continued Agra Moves Better - 2026 through community-based bone-health screening, counselling and practical awareness with Shri Maheshwari Mahila Mandal, Lions Club Sparkle Surbhi and Inner Wheel Club of Agra Midtown.
The activity model combined BMD screening with explanation, fall-prevention messages, posture awareness and counselling, so screening could lead to safer movement and appropriate follow-up rather than remaining a stand-alone test.
- 58 BMD screening registrations were documented in the privacy-safe activity summary.
- The outreach used public campaign material on strong bones, posture, safe movement and fall prevention.
- Patient-identifying register photographs are retained only as supporting evidence and are not reproduced on the public website.
- Selected photographs from the outreach are available in the gallery
- 6 August Activity Dossier
Akashvani Radio & School Outreach
On 7 August 2026, AOS extended Agra Moves Better - 2026 through mass communication and school engagement: an Akashvani radio interaction for city-wide public awareness and an in-person school programme at G.L. Public School.
The common message was that many future bone, joint, muscle and spine problems can be reduced by correct movement and posture, regular physical activity, sensible screen habits, safe school-bag use and balanced nutrition.
- Akashvani Varta carried AOS messages on sitting, standing, walking, sleeping, exercise, nutrition, tobacco/alcohol avoidance, posture and osteoporosis awareness.
- The G.L. Public School programme focused on healthy students, healthy spine, correct study posture, movement breaks, sports, screen habits and safe bag handling.
- The programme reached both general listeners and school-age children with the same prevention-first message.
- 7 August Activity Dossier
Campaign expansion: 9-12 August
After the first week, AOS continued public-awareness activity through community, school, senior-citizen, hospital and professional settings.
The master campaign dossier records BMD-linked activity and counselling across hospitals, Prelude Public School, F.H. Medical College, ICAI Bhawan and women’s/community groups.
- 9 August: community and senior-citizen outreach, including 103 BMD screenings reported across four sites in the contemporaneous dossier.
- 10 August: Ishwari Devi Hospital staff ergonomics and musculoskeletal-health awareness.
- 11 August: Prelude Public School and F.H. Medical College outreach, including healthcare-worker ergonomics and more than 100 BMD screenings reported at F.H. Medical College.
- 12 August: ICAI Bhawan and Dr Gaurav Rajpal Clinic bone-health and osteoporosis-awareness activities.
Independence Day and workplace outreach: 13-20 August
The campaign then used hospital, transport, sport, workplace and community settings to deliver prevention messages around posture, road safety, CPR, senior mobility, falls and women’s bone health.
The Independence Day activity cluster carried the message of freedom from avoidable pain and disability through safer movement and timely care.
- 13-14 August: healthcare ergonomics and musculoskeletal-awareness activity at Pushpanjali Hospital and Ujala Cygnus Rainbow Hospital.
- 15 August: Khel Gaon, UPSRTC Regional Workshop, sports/Freedom Cup activity and Khandari Park community health camp.
- 18-20 August: Khushi Hospital, Ashok Auto Sales, Goyal Hospital, Ashok Cosmos Mall and F.H. Medical College workplace, women’s bone-health and healthcare-ergonomics activities.
- Selected photographs
District Jail, Air Force, Airport and four-site outreach: 22-27 August
AOS carried Agra Moves Better into sports settings, District Jail, Air Force Station Agra, Agra Airport, schools, medical institutions and community screening sites during the final campaign stretch.
The 25 August dossier records a combined 221 BMD screenings across Air Force Station Agra and Agra Airport, along with workplace ergonomics and CPR awareness. The 27 August dossier records four programme sites in one day.
- 22 August: Prakhar Badminton Academy sports-injury prevention and BMD-linked activity.
- 23 August: District Jail Agra bone-health awareness and Om Medical Complex community BMD screening.
- 24 August: Chandrawati Kanya Vidyalaya school and women’s bone-health programme.
- 25 August: Air Force Station Agra and Agra Airport high-duty workplace outreach.
- 27 August: S.N. Medical College, Purushottam Das Savitri Devi Cancer Care & Research Centre, Shri Gandhi Adarsh Kanya Vidyalaya and Japnam Hospital / Sikandra site.
- Selected later-August photographs
- Later-August public dossiers
- 22-23 August photographs
- 25 August photographs
- 27 August photographs
Closing ceremony and campaign record
AOS held the Agra Moves Better - 2026 closing ceremony on 30 August 2026 at Fairfield by Marriott, Agra, with campaign-impact presentation, partner recognition and discussion of the way forward.
The master campaign dossier is kept as the main public/shareable institutional record. Patient-identifying screening registers, phone numbers and individual BMD results remain excluded from public website material.
September and onward society programme
The AOS calendar keeps public-awareness work connected with the society's academic and governance programme after the completion of Agra Moves Better - 2026.
The September CME cum General Body Meeting reviewed the campaign and forthcoming activity. The programme proposed for 3 October has been postponed to November, while the October AI workshop and 1 November Foundation Day Ceremony remain the next scheduled society programmes.
- 26 September 2026: CME cum General Body Meeting completed at Holiday Inn, Agra
- Rheumatoid Arthritis CME: postponed from 3 October to a date in November 2026; revised details will follow.
- 25 October 2026: Hands-on AI Workshop for Orthopaedic Surgeons.
- 1 November 2026: AOS Foundation Day Ceremony; detailed programme under finalisation.
- Public-awareness calendar and future notices
Daily Hindi public-awareness posts
AOS will use its Facebook page for regular Hindi public-awareness posts on common orthopaedic problems. The aim is to share one clear, practical topic at a time for patients and families in Agra.
Suggested themes include osteoporosis, knee arthritis, back pain, fracture first aid, sports injury prevention, senior-citizen falls, road-safety trauma prevention, posture, safe exercise, and when to seek urgent orthopaedic care.
- Monday: knee pain and osteoarthritis
- Wednesday: shoulder myth-buster
- Friday: practical self-care, cramps, stretching, fall prevention, or posture
- Sunday: simple patient question or doctor’s note
Public-awareness topic pages
These pages can support daily Facebook posts and give visitors a clear place to read the main points again.