Arthritis Treatment And Prevention
By Juliet

Arthritis is a disease that causes pain and loss of movement of the joints. is the leading cause of disability in people over the age of 55. affects the movements you rely on for everyday activities.  refers to a group of more than 100 rheumatic diseases and other conditions that can cause pain, stiffness and swelling in the joints. There are many forms of arthritis, each of which has a different cause. Inflammatory is characterized by inflammation of tissues associated with joints. Connective tissue diseases, crystal deposition diseases, infectious arthritis, and spondyloarthropathies are examples of inflammatory arthritis.  Rheumatoid and psoriatic are autoimmune diseases in which the body is attacking itself. Septic is caused by joint infection. Gouty is caused by deposition of uric acid crystals in the joint that results in subsequent inflammation. Rheumatoid (RA) is traditionally considered a chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the joints. It is a disabling and painful inflammatory condition, which can lead to substantial loss of mobility due to pain and joint destruction. sufferers include men and women, children and adults.

RA is a systemic disease, often affecting extra-articular tissues throughout the body including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and muscles. Psoriatic (or arthropathic psoriasis) is a type of inflammatory that affects around 20% of people suffering from the chronic skin condition psoriasis. It occurs more commonly in patients with tissue type HLA-B27. Treatment of psoriatic is similar to that of rheumatoid arthritis. More than 80% of patients with psoriatic will have psoriatic nail lesions characterised by pitting of the nails, or more extremely, loss of the nail itself (onycholysis). Psoriatic is said to be a seronegative spondyloarthropathy. Degenerative joint disease

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