Archive for the ‘Arthritis Types’ Category

Protecting Your Joints against Osteoarthritis

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 |

Osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis has many impacts on your joints. For arthritis, there are number of causes including genetic defects, musculoskeletal defects, injury, overuse etc. In this short article, we try to discuss how protect your joints from issues such as injury and overuse as we may not have any control over [...]

The Mislead – The Diseases that Mimic Arthritis

Sunday, August 10th, 2008 |

Since arthritis has become one of the most prominent diseases, we tend to relate whatever symptoms that look like arthritis to this disease. But medical experts say that there are three other prominent diseases that show symptoms similar to arthritis. Most people are mislead by these symptoms and may start worry about arthritis. Let’s have [...]

Still’s Disease - A Form of Arthritis

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 |

Among various forms of arthritis, Still’s disease takes our attention due to a number of unique symptoms it displays. The most prominent two symptoms are spiking fevers and transient rashes. Although this was first discovered and believed to be just for children, now it is accepted that this is also common among the adults.
There are [...]

Rheumatoid Arthritis and your joints – Part II

Monday, June 30th, 2008 |

We have looked at how rheumatoid arthritis affects arms, wrists, shoulders and elbows in our previous post. In this post, we will further explore how rheumatoid arthritis affects your lower parts of the body.
If you ask any person suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, their first complaint would be pain in the feet. But luckily for some [...]

Rheumatoid Arthritis and your joints – Part I

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 |

Joint pain is a common complaint among all people suffering from arthritis. Let’s explore more in to the subject to understand where it affects when one suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and why.
Hands and wrists would be one of the most severely affected areas as an side effect of rheumatoid arthritis. During early stages of the [...]

Signs, Symptoms & Types of Osteoarthritis

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 |

The most common signs associated with osteoarthritis are joint tenderness, crepitus on movement, and limited range of movement, joint effusion and variable levels of inflammation, bony swellings and wasting of muscles.
The symptoms however (although not too different) are, joint pain, joint gelling (stiffness and pain after immobility), joint’s instability and loss of function.
Having recognized the [...]

Osteoarthritis at a glance!

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 |

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease of synovial joints characterized by loss of cartilage together with periarticular bone response. It is in fact the most common type of arthritis to be found. Usually, the prevalence of osteoarthritis would increase with the age and most of the time people over 60 years old would have some radiological [...]

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