Pain, swelling, stiffness, redness of the joint, all symptoms of arthritis and those are shared equally by different types of arthritis. Stiffness in particular is one the very common symptoms of inflammatory arthritis. And so well, typical the degenerative arthritis might cause a little stiffness when you first get up in the morning for a few minutes. Inflammatory arthritis will often cause stiff in the morning for two to three hours before their joints really start moving.