Describe Osteoarthritis and what causes it. Arthritis: Arthritis is a term used to define any type of disorder or inflammation of joints. The common symptoms of arthritis are swelling, joint pain, stiffness, redness, warmth, decrease in mobility, etc. There are two types of arthritis: ...
What causes collagen loss? Our body’s collagen production naturally begins to slow down as we age. We can thank this degenerative process for signs of aging, such as wrinkles, sagging skin, and joint pains due to weaker or decreased cartilage. (Hello, skeleton legs.) ...
What do I need to know about joint swelling?Joint swelling may occur in one or more joints. You may have other symptoms, such as pain, tenderness, or stiffness. A swollen joint may be caused by a variety of conditions such as arthritis, pseudogout, gout, tendinitis, or injury....
Biologic therapy helps decrease joint swelling, pain, and stiffness. These medicines increase the risk of serious infection. Your provider will need to monitor you closely while you are taking these medicines. Surgery may be done to take out all or part of the joint and put in an artificial ...
Background Patients with hand fractures often have pain, swelling, and stiffness in the joints of the hand, which may lead them to protect their hands, resulting in more stiffness and in delayed recovery. However, the effects of pain-coping strategies and catastrophization (the tendency to ...
Friedrich’s disease. Friedrich’s disease is a condition in which the end of the clavicle bone that makes up part of the SC joint begins to die. Gout.Gout is a type of arthritis that causesinflammationand significant pain in a joint. It usually affects the joint of the big toe but has...
These are painful bony lumps that grow along the inside of your foot at the joint where your big toe meets your foot. Bunions grow slowly as the big toe angles inward. Tight, narrow, shoes like high heels may worsen them. That’s why bunions appear much more often in women. They can...
Joint painor stiffness Itchy feeling Headache Feverand chills Difficulty breathing Sores containing pus Most of the symptoms of skin lesions can be addressed through early diagnosis and appropriate medication can treat the disease effectively. However, there are certain symptoms of skin lesions that coul...
The term disorder refers to the abnormality in the physical or physiological activity of an individual which aroused either due to nutritional deficiencies or due to some disturbance in the physiological systems (like the neurological pathways or the muscular activities)....
This lack of consistency causes uncertainly when comparing results between studies. The term 'fixed' in FFD/FFC suggests an arthrodesed joint, unable to extend or flex from its fixed position. However, in the studies reviewed the term 'FFD'/FFC has been identified in some of the studies to...