Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases

Arthritis is often used to refer to any disorder that affects the joints. Rheumatic diseases usually affect joints, tendons, ligaments, bones, and muscles.

Ankylosing Spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis is arthritis that affects the spine. It often involves redness, heat, swelling, and pain in the spine or in the joint where the bottom of the spine joins the pelvic bone.

Arthritis
"Arthritis" means joint inflammation. Although joint inflammation is a symptom or sign rather than a specific diagnosis, the term arthritis is often used to refer to any disorder that affects the joints.

Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune diseases happen when your immune cells attack your body by mistake. These diseases can affect almost any part of the body.

Autoinflammatory Diseases
Autoinflammatory diseases cause your immune cells to attack your body by mistake. This can cause fever, rash, joint swelling, and more.

Behçet’s Disease
Behçet’s disease is a chronic condition that causes mouth or genital sores, and inflammation in parts of the eye.

Bursitis
Bursitis is a common condition that causes swelling and pain around muscles and bones.


Giant Cell Arteritis
Giant cell arteritis causes the arteries of the scalp and neck to become red, hot, swollen, or painful. The arteries most affected are those in the temples on either side of the head.

Gout
Gout is a kind of arthritis that causes painful and stiff joints. Gout is caused by the build up of crystals of uric acid in your joints.

Hip Replacement Surgery
Hip replacement surgery removes damaged or diseased parts of a hip joint and replaces them with new, man-made parts.

Joint Replacement Surgery
Joint replacement surgery removes damaged or diseased parts of a joint and replaces them with new, man-made parts. 

Juvenile Arthritis
Juvenile arthritis is the term used to describe arthritis in children. Arthritis is caused by inflammation of the joints.

Knee Problems
Knee problems happen when you injure or develop disease in your knee and it can’t do its job.

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Lupus)
Lupus happens when the body’s defense system attacks healthy cells and tissues, instead of viruses and bacteria. This can damage many parts of the body.

Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis damages the slippery tissue that covers the ends of bones in a joint. This allows bones to rub together. The rubbing causes pain, swelling, and loss of motion of the joint.

Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Polymyalgia rheumatica causes muscle pain and stiffness in the neck, shoulder, and hip.

Psoriatic Arthritis
Psoriatic arthritis can occur in people who have psoriasis (scaly red and white patches). It affects the joints and areas where tissues attach to bone.

Reactive Arthritis
Reactive arthritis is pain or swelling in a joint that is caused by an infection in your body. You may also have red, swollen eyes and a swollen urinary tract.

Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease that affects your joints. It causes pain, swelling, and stiffness.

Scleroderma

Scleroderma is the name for a group of diseases that cause patches of tight, hard skin. Some forms of scleroderma can also damage your blood vessels and internal organs.

Shoulder Problems
Most shoulder problems happen when soft tissues in the shoulder region break down.

Sjögren’s Syndrome
Sjögren’s syndrome is a disease that affects the glands that make moisture. It most often causes dryness in the mouth and eyes.

Tendinitis
Tendinitis is swelling and pain in a joint. It is a common condition, usually caused by repeated injuries to a tendon, the part of the joint that connects muscles to bones.