Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic (long-lasting) disease in which a person with psoriasis develops the symptoms and signs of arthritis, including joint pain, stiffness and swelling. Psoriasis is a common, inherited skin condition that causes grayish-white scaling over a pink or dull-red skin rash...
PsA most often affects your skin and your joints, which can become swollen, stiff, and painful. Over time, if you don’t treat it, the inflammation can damage joints and tissues. Psoriatic Arthritis Symptoms The symptoms of psoriatic arthritis include: Swollen fingers and toes Foot pain Lower...
Both rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis are autoimmune conditions that cause chronic inflammation of your joints. They have very similar joint symptoms. However, with rheumatoid arthritis, you will usually have symptoms in the same joint on both sides of your body. For instance, you might have symp...
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that affects more than 30% of people with psoriasis. People generally receive a psoriasis diagnosis before experiencing PsA symptoms. Some people may have flares of joint pain, inflammation, or swollen hands and feet; skin-related sympto...
Conclusions: Higher serum Il-6 is associated with depressive symptoms. This association suggests a direct role of systemic inflammation in the modulation of mood in PsA patients. Key Points High PsA disease activity and physical disability are associated with depression. Higher serum levels of IL-6...
Psoriatic Arthritis (Psoriasis + Arthritis) needs homeopathy treatment for better control. Homeopathy is a modern way to treat diseases by immunity correction, which works at a deeper level. Click to read more.
Psoriatic Arthritis Symptoms Among people who have psoriasis, an autoimmune condition that causes inflammation, cell overgrowth and accumulations of scaly plaques on the skin,between 20% and 30%will develop additional symptoms. Though some people with PsA will not also have psoriasis, that's pretty...
Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory disease. It causes inflammation, swelling, and pain in the joints, as well as swollen fingers and toes, splitting fingernails and toenails that often peel away from the nail bed, eye pain and redness, and pain in the back of the heel. Ty...
Psoriatic arthritis occurs in 5 - 42% of patients with psoriasis. It is an inflammatory arthritis distinct from rheumatoid, being usually sero-negative, asymmetrical and often affecting the spine, sacro-iliac and distal interphalangeal joints. It runs a very variable course, from a mild non-destr...
I’m 33 years old and would like to hear some general info about psoriatic arthritis. The fact is my mother had it and I wonder now what the psoriatic arthritis symptoms are and what causes it. And still how it may be treated and is psoriatic arthritis skin condition psoriasis related for...