Arthritis

Arthritis (arth: joint, itis: inflammation) is a broad category of ailment which can be broken into four basic types: inflammatory arthritis, degenerative joint disease, nonarticular rheumatism, and miscellaneous arthritis. These encompass resulting conditions such as tendinitis, bursitis, fibromyalgia, gout and more. All forms of arthritis cause varying degrees of joint and musculoskeletal pain and may cause reduced function of affected joints.

Arthritis is the leading cause of disability for those over the age of 65 but is not limited to the elderly. Some are affected as infants while others succumb during the prime years of their lives making prompt and accurate diagnosis imperative to successful therapy and pain management. Approximately 350 million people worldwide have arthritis. Causes include injury (leading to osteoarthritis), abnormal metabolism (i.e. gout), inheritance, infections and for reasons unknown.

Understanding the medications your doctor may have prescribed, communicating well with your medical professionals, managing the emotions on-going pain may cause, eating well and getting regular exercise are vital to living with arthritis. In addition to drug therapies successful pain management may be experienced with regular MendMeShop Ultrasound treatments.

More Information

www.aidmypain.com Aid My Pain with Ultrasound
www.arthritis.ca The Arthritis Society
www.answers.com Answers about Arthritis

Arthritic Ailments

The following list, although extensive, is not comprehensive. There are over 100 arthritic ailments.

Ankylosing Spondylitis
Behçet's Disease
Bursitis
Childhood Arthritis
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH)
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)
Felty's Syndrome
Fibromyalgia
Gout
Infectious Arthritis
Lupus
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
Osteoarthritis
Paget's Disease
Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Polymyositis and Dermatomyositis
Pseudogout
Psoriatic Arthritis
Raynaud's Phenomenon
Reactive Arthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Scleroderma
Sjõgren's Syndrome
Still's Disease
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Tendinitis
Wegener's Granulomatosis

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