Sacroiliitis can be hard to diagnose. It can be mistaken for other causes of low back pain. It's been linked to a group of diseases that cause inflammatory arthritis of the spine. Treatment might involve physical therapy and medicines. ...
Results Of the 16 patients identified (13 [81%] female; median [range] age, 68.5 [34–86]y), 6 had inflammatory arthritis, 3 had polymyalgia rheumatica, 2 had lupus, 2 had Sjogren's syndrome, 1 had temporal arteritis, 1 had IBD-associated spondyloarthropathy and 1 had gout. Patients ...
Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used to treat mild to moderate pain, and helps to relieve symptoms of arthritis (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or juvenile arthritis), such as inflammation, swelling, stiffness, and joint pain. This medicine does not cure arthritis...
CBD has surpassed all other supplements in history in terms of rapid rise in sales and use in the U.S., says Dr. Brent Bauer, director of the Mayo Clinic Integrative Medicine and Health Research Program. It's being marketed ...
Hydroxychloroquine is a long-standing preventive and treatment drug for malaria. It also is used to manage and minimize symptoms of inflammatory immune diseases, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. In laboratory tests, hydroxychloroquine can prevent the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 viruses from attach...
digestiveissues including acid reflux, ulcers, chronic constipation or diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, dysbiosis; immune and respiratoryissues such as allergies, asthma, bronchitis, sinusitis, cold and flu, including Covid-19, and im...
Dear Mayo Clinic: About a month ago, I began experiencing pain in my elbow. I experience this almost constantly, but it is worst whenever I try to lift anything, no matter how heavy. The pain moves from my elbow down my inner forearm, and if I twist or t
The invention involves evaluating arthritis conditions. Specifically, the invention provides methods and materials related to determining the severity of an arthritis condition in a mammal. The term “arthritis condition” as used herein refers to an infective, autoimmune, or traumatic inflammatory conditio...
(e.g., therapeutic agents) used to treat an autoimmune disease. In some cases, a therapeutic agent that can be used to treat an autoimmune disease can be an anti-inflammatory (e.g., a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)). In some cases, a therapeutic agent that can be used ...
Use of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A as a marker for inflammatory conditions, and in particular, for acute coronary syndromes is described.