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Many Different Diseases All Called Arthritis |
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Alan Beartoes |
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Many Different Diseases All Called Arthritis
Alan Beartoes
What does arthritis mean?
Joint inflammation is what arthritis means. Arthritis encompasses a wide variety of diseases and is not a single disease.
Most people don't realize that there are over 100 conditions and rheumatic diseases that are all arthritis related. What they all do is cause pain, swelling and stiffness in a variety of manners and all of them affect different parts of the body.
The time that joints are starting to get damaged is when it is said that you have arthritis. Most of us realize that this condition affects the older population. Each of the different forms of arthritis all have there own cause.
The common thread between all arthritis
The 100 forms of arthritis do have something very much in common. Pain is common, far and away the number one answer. This pain is going to be different for each of the sufferers and where the pain is located is also going to be different.
What are some of the warning signs for arthritis?
Swelling of your joints and stiffness are some of the signs and symptoms that you may be suffering from arthritis.
Pain, swelling and stiffness in moving one or more of your joints may be a sign that you are starting to suffer from arthritis. If you are having these problems for two weeks or longer, then you need to visit your doctor immediately and have these symptoms checked out and treated. You don't want to let this go with out doing anything.
Listing all the different types of arthritis would become quite extensive and I am not about to do that here. I will do another article explaining them, but for now here is a list of some of the most common types and the symptoms that are associated with each type of arthritis.
Osteoarthritis - what you will find is that the pain is worse at night or after rest. Osteo arthritis is a degenerative joint disease that results from wear and tear. Some of the symptoms of this are:
tenderness decreased function of the joint pain in affected joint swelling
When you are suffering from osteo arthritis, to tell initially may be tough. The onset is subtle and a gradual type thing. This is going to be one joint or several joints that can become affected and those joints may be the following:
tough on the knees sore hands hips become sore and stiff spine area is affected
Rheumatoid - you are going to feel the most pain during the morning. If this happens in children and/or the elderly then the pain may not be as pronounced. Now sometimes there are going to be cases when certain limbs don't want to function.
Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto immune disease. This occurs when the body's own immune system basically starts to attack itself. Rheumatoid arthritis can be a chronic and potentially disabling disease which can cause:
Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms are similar to the other types of arthritis you can possibly lose function of a joint there is going to be pain in the joint swelling will be evident the joint will become stiff
Why rheumatoid arthritis occurs is still not known. Why the body attacks itself is a mystery. Doctors are wondering if this is genetic? It can be hard at first to tell if a person is suffering from rheumatiod arthritis, since it occurs so gradually.
Here are some of the other types of arthritis, and don't forget there are many more not listed. You have as mentioned rheumatoid, osteo arthritis, gout, pseudogout, septic, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and there are as I say many others.
The advances in medicine today have made treating the different types of arthritis many. You can use medicine prescribed by your doctor or even over the counter drugs and also arthroplasty and this is only a couple of ways to treat arthritis symptoms.
As a last resort and when the pain becomes so severe that prosthetic joint replacement may be the answer to the problem. Other treatments have failed and surgery is now necessary. Patient's are quite satisfied of the results of joint replacement. I know of a friend who had a new hip put in and he is back out playing golf like nothing happened to him. You would never know he had this done and he is so grateful that he did.
4500 B.C. where when the first signs of arthritis were seen. So as you can see this disease has been around for a very long time.
Ankle osteoarthritis were found in dinosaurs. Even the native Americans of Tennessee, it was noticed that they suffered from a form of arthritis.
Today all we can do is to treat the pain and stiffness that is associated with the symptoms of arthritis. Maybe in the future as studies continue on this disease, a cure may come. But for now all we can do is to treat the symptoms.
There are other treatments besides the couple listed above and I will talk about them in another article.
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