Bacterial arthritis and osteomyelitis are usually acute diseases, which in this way differ from the often insidious course of nonbacterial osteomyelitis; however, there is often an overlap both in less acute courses of bacterial illnesses and also in nonbacterial osteitis. The overlapping clinical phen...
Ms Sarah Jones, aged 38, a part-time computer programmer and mother of twoyoung children, consults her general practitioner. She complains of a 6 month history of wrist and hand pain, increasingweaknessin her grip and general fatigue. Initially, she thought her symptoms related to a house mo...
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease (a condition that takes place when the immune system attacks the body’s healthy cells). It affects the fingers, spine, hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists and ankles. The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis are joint pain and tightness, limited join...
Rheumatoid arthritis is a common inflammatory autoimmune disease. Although disease activity may be managed effectively with prescription drugs, unproven treatments such as magnet therapy are sometimes used as an adjunct for pain control. Therapeutic devi
RA involves periodic inflammation of the synovium in joints of the hand, wrist, foot, knee or shoulder. This causes swelling of the joint capsule and irri- tation of nerve endings, producing pain and resulting in damage to both bone and cartilage. In turn this may lead ...
Plain radiographs of the pelvis and heels were part of the study protocol, although radiographs of other potential entheseal sites such as the knee, elbow and shoulder, were interpreted if available. All radiographs were read blind by two observers working in tandem.Significant differences in en...