Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that mainly affects your joints. It begins when your immune system starts attacking your own body’s tissue. This results in inflammation of the lining of your joints, leading to painful swelling. The inflammation can also lead to bone erosion...
The health of a synovial joint is intertwined with the health of these supporting soft tissue structures. For example, damage to a ligament can skew joint alignment and eventually lead to joint degeneration (osteoarthritis) and vice versa. SeeDegenerative Arthritis Arthritis Can Affect Synovial Joints...
Preventing arthritis is not an easy goal for your body, but it is possible to reduce the risks. For example, lifestyle choices are a proactive way to minimize joint damage. (x) First, maintaining a healthy weight can reduce the risk of osteoarthritis. Being overweight puts more pressure and...
can lead to osteoarthritis. Anyone who has injured a joint or suffers fromrheumatoid arthritisfaces a higher risk of developing premature arthritis symptoms at a young age.Gout, a condition wherein the body produces too much uric acid, might also lead to degenerative disease of the affected joint...
Septic arthritis (SA) is a clinical emergency with considerable morbidity and mortality that can lead to rapid joint destruction and irreversible loss of f... F Schiavon,M Favero,V Carraro,... - 《Reumatismo》 被引量: 9发表: 2008年 What is the best referral strategy for axial spondyloarthrit...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare-Up RA disease activity can get noticeably worse for a temporary period—ranging from a day to several weeks or longer. This is called arheumatoid arthritis flare-uporRA flare. Symptoms such as stiff, painful joints and fatigue may make it difficult or impossible to get...
Arthritis –Joint swelling from arthritis can affect how you walk and how your shoes fit, and joint stiffness can make it hard to move your toes. Because of this, your toe may get pushed into an unnatural position, and it may be difficult to unbend your toe. Bunions –If you have a ...
It can also be caused by certain cortisone-related drugs, like prednisone and prednisolone. These types of medications are typically used to treat such autoimmune diseases as chronic asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and sarcoidosis. High doses of these steroids used for long periods of time ca...
If you have severe psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, your doctor may want you to take aprescriptionmedication that affects your whole body. That should ease nail problems, too. Your Scalp At least half of those with psoriasis have it here. It can cause mild scaling. That can look like and...
Rheumatoid arthritis can lead to deformed joints, extreme pain, and loss of the ability to do common tasks like walking. Stiffness in the morning The symptoms of the disease can develop in a few days, months or years. For most people, a joint in the hands, feet, arms, or legs feels ...