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A term referring to a variety of conditions characterized by inflammation of one or more joints.Arthritis is commonly regarded as a disease of the elderly, but there are several varieties that primarily affect children, including juvenile rheumato...
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Arthritis is inflammation of one or more joints, which results in pain, swelling, stiffness, and limited movement. There are over 100 different types of arthritis.
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Detailed information on arthritis, including types, symptoms, and diagnosis Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases are characterized by pain, swelling, and limited movement in joints and connective tissues in the body. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 46 million people in the US have some form of arthritis or chronic joint symptoms.
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Detailed information on arthritis, including types, symptoms, and diagnosis Arthritis and other rheumatic diseases are characterized by pain, swelling, and limited movement in joints and connective tissues in the body. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 46 million people in the US have some form of arthritis or chronic joint symptoms.
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This report includes sections on osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system, medications, diet, exercise, and the emotional strain of living with arthritis.
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Detailed information on arthritis, including types, symptoms, diagnosis, and rehabilitation
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Detailed information on arthritis and other rheumatic disease, including symptom, cause, and members of the treatment team
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Detailed information on the most common types of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases, including ankylosing spondylitis, bursitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, gout, infectious arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lyme disease, low back pa
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Although there's no cure for arthritis, the symptoms can be treated effectively in many cases. Here's a look at some proven treatments.
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Doctors and physical therapists say people with arthritis can improve their health and fitness through exercise without damaging their joints.
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A Harvard Medical School physician answers your question about a possible connection between statin medications and easing arthritis.
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No matter what form of arthritis you have, your role as part of your health care team can make the difference in how well you function with pain, stiffness or inflammation.
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Arthritis cannot be cured, but treatment can help manage the pain and prevent serious disability.
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Detailed information on the treatment of arthritis Unfortunately, there is no cure for arthritis. The goal of treatment is often to limit pain and inflammation, while ensuring optimal joint function. Each treatment plan designed by a physician should be specifically tailored to the individual's type of arthritis, as well as the severity of the condition. Treatment plans often involve both short-term and long-term relief approaches, including the following:
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Detailed information on diagnosing pediatric arthritis and other rheumatic diseases
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Detailed information on treatment for arthritis and other rheumatic diseases Unfortunately, there is no cure for rheumatic disease (with the exception of infectious arthritis, which can be cured with antibiotics if detected or diagnosed early). The goal of treatment is to limit pain and inflammation, while ensuring optimal joint function. Each treatment plan designed by a physician should be specifically tailored to the patients type of rheumatic disease, as well as the severity of the disease. Treatment plans often involve both short-term and long-term relief approaches, including the following:
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If you have arthritis, taking your medication and following your doctor's orders are essential. But self-care can be just as important in your daily and long-term management of the disease.
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Detailed information on the most common treatments used for arthritis Unfortunately, there is no cure for arthritis. The goal of treatment is often to limit pain and inflammation, while ensuring optimal joint function. Each treatment plan designed by a physician should be specifically tailored to the individual's type of arthritis, as well as the severity of the condition. Treatment plans often involve both short-term and long-term relief approaches, including the following:
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Detailed information on treatment for arthritis and other rheumatic diseases Unfortunately, there is no cure for rheumatic diseases. The goal of treatment is often to limit pain and inflammation, while ensuring optimal joint function. Each treatment plan designed by a physician should be specifically tailored to the individual's type of rheumatic disease, as well as the severity of the condition. Treatment plans often involve both short-term and long-term relief approaches, including the following:
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Detailed information on diagnosing arthritis and other rheumatic diseases, including the most commonly used laboratory tests and imaging techniques
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A series of exercises to ease pain and prevent injury for those with arthritis, repetitive stress injury, or carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Detailed information on the most common types of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases, including ankylosing spondylitis, bursitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, gout, infectious arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lyme disease, low back pa
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I have a strong family history of arthritis. Are there steps I can take now to prevent arthritis or at least delay onset?
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Do pain medications prevent arthritis from worsening, directly or indirectly? If I choose not to take medications for chronic arthritis pain due to a concern about potential side effects, am I allowing the arthritis to worsen?
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Detailed information on arthritis and other rheumatic diseases, including types, diagnosis, treatment, and living with the condition
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List of online resources to find additional information on arthritis and other rheumatic diseases
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Can trauma to a joint cause arthritis?
Robert Shmerling, M.D., is associate physician and clinical chief of rheumatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an associate professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an active teacher in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as the Robinson Firm Chief. He is also a teacher in the Rheumatology Fellowship Program and has been a practicing rheumatologist for over 25 years.
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Does diabetes cause joint pain
Robert Shmerling, M.D., is associate physician and clinical chief of rheumatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an associate professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an active teacher in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as the Robinson Firm Chief. He is also a teacher in the Rheumatology Fellowship Program and has been a practicing rheumatologist for over 25 years.
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Does a lack of vitamins B12, B6 or folic acid have an effect on arthritis?
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Find out how much you know about alternative arthritis treatments.
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If your symptoms are mild, medications may be enough to reduce pain and swelling. For more severe arthritis, surgery may be needed to improve the condition of the joint.
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Degenerative arthritis is a condition that slowly wears away joints (the link where bones meet and move). In the beginning, you may notice that the affected joint seems stiff. It may even ache. As the joint lining (cartilage) breaks down, the bones rub against each other, causing pain and swelling. Over time, bone spurs (small pieces of rough or splintered bone) develop, and the joint's range of motion becomes limited. But movement doesn't have to cause pain. The effects of arthritis can be reduced.
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Exercise is an important part of a comprehensive arthritis treatment plan. A complete program consists of three types of exercises: range-of-motion exercises, aerobic exercises, strengthening exercises.
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Exercise has important health benefits for everyone -- regardless of age and physical condition. But for people with arthritis, working out regularly, and within their limits, is critical.
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Here's where you'll find some helpful ways you can cope with painful bouts of arthritis
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Is arthritis related to allergies?
Diana Post, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Bruxism is the habit of clenching and grinding the teeth. It most often occurs at night during sleep, but it may also occur during the day.
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Bruxism is when you clench(tightly hold your top and bottom teeth together) or grind(slide your teeth back and forth over each other) your teeth.People can clench and grind without being aware of it during both the day and night, although sleep-re...
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Detailed information on bruxism, including causes, diagnosis, and treatment Bruxism is the term that refers to an incessant grinding and clenching of the teeth, unintentionally, and at inappropriate times. Bruxers (persons with bruxism) are often unaware that they have developed this habit, and often do not know that treatment is available until damage to the mouth and teeth has been done. Damage caused by bruxism often includes the following symptoms. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
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Bruxism is the habit of clenching and grinding the teeth. It most often occurs at night during sleep, but may also occur during the day.
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Bruxism is a habitual grinding or clenching of the teeth. The behavior is usually unconscious, occurs most often during sleep, and is a reaction to periods of stress in the patient''s life.Bruxers often unknowingly grind their teeth.
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A broken jaw is a break in the jaw bone. A dislocated jaw means the lower part of the jaw has moved out of its normal position at one or both joints where the jaw bone connects to the skull(temporomandibular joints).A broken or dislocated jaw usua...
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Fibromyalgia is described as inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body. Widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points characterize these conditions.
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Fibromyalgia is a common condition characterized by long-term, body-wide pain and tender points in joints, muscles, tendons, and other soft tissues. Fibromyalgia has also been linked to fatigue, morning stiffness, sleep problems, headaches, numbne...
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Although a higher percentage of women are affected, fibromyalgia does strike men, women and children of all ages and races. It is characterized by widespread pain and soreness in 11 out of 18 specific locations on the body, lasts at least three months and is often accompanied by fatigue. The pain can migrate and vary in intensity. The American College of Rheumatology estimates that fibromyalgia affects an estimated two percent of the U.S. population (2004 statistic).
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Fibromyalgia is described as inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue of the body. Widespread muscle pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points characterize these conditions.
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Fibromyalgia(formerly known as fibrositis) is an inflammation of the fibrous or connective tissue(muscles, joints, ligaments, and tendons) of the body. Widespread pain, fatigue, and multiple tender points characterize this condition.
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Detailed information fibromyalgia, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on fibromyalgia, including cause, triggers, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information fibromyalgia, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex, often misunderstood illness. Its symptoms are chronic pain, sleep problems, and fatigue. There's no known cure for the condition, but symptoms can be eased through lifestyle changes and possibly medication.
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Does fibromyalgia pain increase when a woman is pregnant?
Robert Shmerling, M.D., is associate physician and clinical chief of rheumatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an associate professor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an active teacher in the Internal Medicine Residency Program, serving as the Robinson Firm Chief. He is also a teacher in the Rheumatology Fellowship Program and has been a practicing rheumatologist for over 25 years.
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Is there a diet to help control fibromyalgia symptoms?
Diana Post, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Is there any connection between surgically induced menopause and fibromyalgia? And does taking estrogen seem to help or hurt the condition?
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My wife has suffered with fibromyalgia for about 17 years. Recently, we have heard a great deal about acupuncture treatment success. Are there any studies that validate the use of acupuncture?
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that primarily targets synovial tissues. It is relatively common with a prevalence of approximately 1% in adults all over the world.
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Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and deformity of the joints. Other problems throughout the body(systemic problems) may also develop, including inflammation of blood vessels( vasculitis), the develo...
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Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) is a long-term disease that leads to inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. It can also affect other organs.The cause of RA is unknown.
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Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that affects the lining of the joints, causing pain, swelling, and stiffness. Left untreated, rheumatoid arthritis may damage joints so badly that they no longer function. This disease appears most often in young-adult to middle-age women. To diagnose rheumatoid arthritis, your doctor will ask about your health history and perform an exam. X-rays and blood tests may also be needed.
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The following Clinical Topic Tour provides an overview of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and was adapted from materials published by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Detailed information on rheumatoid arthritis, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Detailed information on rheumatoid arthritis, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Many people with rheumatoid arthritis believe there's nothing they can do to ease their pain and stiffness, but they're wrong.
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Detailed information on rheumatoid arthritis, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by symmetric inflammatory polyarthritis and varying degrees of extraarticular involvement. A chronic fluctuating course of the disease is experienced by most patients that may result in joint destruction, deformity, disability and premature death. 1?4 Major economic and emotional disabilities can result from RA and can have a significant impact on patients? families and loved ones.
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Researchers believe that enough evidence exists now to list rheumatoid arthritis as a marker of increased heart attack risk. The next step is to examine how people with RA might alter their drug treatment plan or make lifestyle changes to reduce their risk for heart attack.
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Over the past twenty years the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has undergone dramatic changes, particularly in the past five years. Traditionally, RA was diagnosed late in the disease course, the symptoms were treated without addressing the underlying damaging nature of RA, referral to specialist teams was delayed, and drugs that might slow the disease process down (disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs)) were introduced after joints had eroded.
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Can rheumatoid arthritis cause degenerative bone cysts?
Diana Post, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Treating rheumatoid arthritis early and aggressively can help reduce joint damage and disability.
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The treatment goals include reducing joint swelling, relieving stiffness, preventing joint damage and maintaining joint function.
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Is there any connection between rheumatoid arthritis and alcohol consumption? Does a prior history of waterborne hepatitis predispose a person to RA?
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The RF is an antibody detectable in the blood in about 70 percent of persons with rheumatoid arthritis but can often be found in other people as well. In fact, healthy people with no arthritis and no medical problems at all make tiny amounts of this antibody.
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Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the joints, most often in the hands and feet. It results in swelling, stiffness, pain, and sometimes joint, bone, and cartilage destruction.Although the exact cause of RA is unkn...
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Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) is an inflammatory disease of the joints, the cause of which is still unknown. Infectious factors are being studied, including bacterial and viral organisms, but no definite involvement of any agent has been proven.
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Rheumatoid arthritis(RA) is a chronic disease causing inflammation and deformity of the joints. Other systemic problems throughout the body may also develop, including inflammation of blood vessels(vasculitis), the development of bumps(rheumatoid ...
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A dislocation is a separation of two bones where they meet at a joint.(Joints are areas where two bones come together.)
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Normally, bones glide smoothly within your joints, allowing a wide range of motion. But a bone can be pushed or pulled out of position. This is known as a dislocation.
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In a dislocation, the surfaces of the bones that normally articulate with each other(i.e., join together to allow movement) no longer line up correctly, and none of the joint surfaces are touching. Subluxation is a partial dislocation, so some con...
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In medicine, the terms dislocation and subluxation refer to the displacement of bones that form a joint. These conditions affecting the joint most often result from trauma that causes adjoining bones to no longer align with each other.
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Detailed information on dislocation, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
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Facial trauma is any injury of the face and upper jaw bone.Maxillofacial injury; Midface trauma; Facial injury; LeFort injuries.Blunt or penetrating trauma can cause injury to the midface region, which includes the upper jaw(maxilla). Common cause...
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Detailed information on facial injuries, including prevention Children may get minor cuts, wounds, and lacerations to the face while playing, climbing, or during sports activities. Most of these injuries can be handled at home with simple first-aid treatment.
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