Arthritis is inflammation of the joints. The symptoms of arthritis include stiffness and joint pain. There are many types of arthritis. The two most common types are osteoarthritis (OA), caused by ...

Fortunately, due to the improvements in medical treatment, it is uncommon for a person to have inflammatory arthritis that significantly affects multiple joints. More commonly, people will have ...

This distinction is sometimes difficult, and classically the term reactive arthritis has been used to describe an immune-mediated sterile arthritis (typically monoarticular or oligoarticular, often ...

Researchers at an academic rheumatology department in the Netherlands prospectively developed a diagnostic rule for gout using data from 381 consecutive patients with monoarticular arthritis who ...

Joint aspiration can be painful and risks infection, although the risk with proper arthrocentesis technique is negligible and should not preclude use of the procedure if the diagnostic rule cannot ...

The classic signs of rheumatoid arthritis include pain, swelling, and stiffness of several joints. Persistent inflammation can lead to issues with mobility, fatigue, illness, and joint deformity over ...

Arthritis is damage to the cartilage in joints. Shoulder arthritis occurs when the cartilage starts wearing down on the ball and/or socket sides of the shoulder joint. Symptoms of shoulder arthritis ...

Reactive arthritis is a type of arthritis that occurs in response to an infection. Arthritis is when joints become inflamed and painful. Reactive arthritis is not contagious. It affects people ...

but only three of the nine reported chills and fever accompanying the arthritis. Six patients had monoarticular involvement. All had joint effusions sufficient to permit successful aspiration ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory disease that affects the joints. It gets worse over time unless the inflammation is stopped or slowed. Only in very rare cases, rheumatoid arthritis ...

Psoriatic (pronounced saw-ree-a-tuhk) arthritis is a chronic inflammatory arthritis. Anyone can get psoriatic arthritis, but about 33%-50% of people who get it either have psoriasis themselves or ...

Few medical conditions seem as inevitable when aging as does arthritis. It's an understandable assumption considering that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the ...